Philippe Le Miere 'Study for Alice in a game of kangaroo chess' landscape a mischief percolating beneath the

a mischief percolating beneath the façade

Blackman draws her here with maturity

and the Great Wall of China

'Crawling Vines' 1979

In his prints

Philippe Le Miere 'Study for Alice in a game of kangaroo chess' landscape a mischief percolating beneath thePhilippe Le Mieres Alice in a game of kangaroo chess mashes up the work of two iconic Australian artists, Garry Shead and Charles Blackman. Across from Blackmans wide eyed Alice sits Sheads kangaroo; both Alice and the kangaroo wander through their respective oeuvres, bearing simultaneous literary and personal resonance. Sheads kangaroo is inspired by the writing of DH Lawrence, in whom he sensed a cross temporal connection. The kangaroo Lawrence had