Charles Blackman 'Schoolgirls, from Girls and Flowers portfolio' first nations artist to fully behold this work’s

to fully behold this work’s physical and iconographical depth

It is from his name that the term ‘hermaphrodite’ was born

For lovers and collectors of Blackman and works on paper

‘Life Class’ is a twist on life drawing – an artistic convention born of sketching a life model in a studio

inviting the outside world into the heart of his composition

Charles Blackman 'Schoolgirls, from Girls and Flowers portfolio' first nations artist to fully behold this work’sFrom the revered Girls and Flowers Portfolio, this work is quintessential Charles Blackman. It is evocative and mysterious a vestige of feeling over exactness. Reminiscent of his Schoolgirls series, Girl with Plaits sees a girl lying prone. She faces away from us, her hair parted to reveal the nape of her neck. The setting is ambiguous an expansive cream landscape cut against by black sky. Perhaps shes on the moon. Fluent in the language of emotion,