Auguste Blackman 'Flurry of Life' cool tones are at once imagined and

are at once imagined and compelling

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe

'Dark Mirror' 1976

it shimmers beneath the light

His former teacher

Auguste Blackman 'Flurry of Life' cool tones are at once imagined andAuguste 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