Auguste Blackman 'Red Sisters' architecture

Auguste Blackman 'Red Sisters' architectureAuguste Blackman grew up the son of two icons: Charles and Barbara Blackman. The former was a prominent figure in Australian Modernism; a man whose Schoolgirls and Alices are embedded in our visual lexicon. The latter, Barbara Blackman, is a poet, writer, advocate and muse. By the age of twenty two she was blind, a diagnosis that at first felt like a life sentence for a crime I had not committed but in turn gave her a unique outlook on life. Like

The presence of a hat links to Majzner’s Jewish heritage

A childhood fairytale takes on the cadence of an opera

'Amapondo 1' 2014

but with a better mise en scene

his work brims with life

marriage and the social order

Image Size: 25 x 33 cm

Leveson is an awe-inspiring find

Dimensions: 62 x 45 cm

reproduced ad infinitum

Image Size: 25 x 40 cm

a film we can’t quite remember the end of