Auguste Blackman 'Wild Woman' seaside the artist draws out his

the artist draws out his subject’s pathos like a wailing crescendo

Image Size: 41 x 28 cm

dated & titled on mount below image

the work is regal in palette but lively in form

Abstracted from its habitat

Auguste Blackman 'Wild Woman' seaside the artist draws out hisAuguste 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