Auguste Blackman 'Woman in Orange Foliage' organic & textural suggesting a cosmic connection between

suggesting a cosmic connection between all things great and small

irrevocably moved

'Friends 1942' 2002

perhaps submitting to music

Inspired by the landscape

Auguste Blackman 'Woman in Orange Foliage' organic & textural suggesting a cosmic connection betweenAuguste 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