Charles Blackman 'Call Girl' still life

Charles Blackman 'Call Girl' still lifeThroughout his career, Charles Blackman was recurrently interested in those overlooked by society. In the so thought benign population of school children, he saw a metaphor for the sublimation of a deep unease beneath cultural innocence. In Call Girl, Blackman turns his attention to a young woman. She is all dolled up, yet does not seem frivolous. There is tension between her outward appearance and demeanour, reminiscent of the gap between our

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Susan Pickering’s work hovers between abstraction and representation

whose writing he was introduced to by Sunday Reed

“linked with a shrewd and civilised eye for the bizarre and comical” – simple

Archival pigment print on paper

‘Memento’ is a portrait of a rose

Dividing her time between the United Arab Emirates and Australia

In it two unclothed figures

Ink and polymer on Hahnemuhle 250gsm paper

Created during this period

'Twilight' 1991