Charles Blackman 'Butterfly Web' flora

Charles Blackman 'Butterfly Web' floraButterflies are recurrent motifs in Charles Blackmans work. They flutter through his gardens, streets and Wonderland, winking at the idea of transformation. Indeed, butterflies evolving from lowly caterpillars into flight are a utopian ideal made real. It is true that our identity is in constant movement, and our hope that it will follow the butterfly. In this exceptionally rare work, Charles Blackman uses the butterfly to express the general by the

Mirka Mora drew on the forces of life

abstraction and the George Bell Circle

what never dies becomes desert dirt

The work was inspired by Kenneth Slessor’s poem ‘Five Bells’

Crease to top edge

signed 'Barrett' and dated in lower margin

the slap blurs to a whack

Like his famed Schoolgirl and Alice series

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Image Size: 27 x 26 cm

the half-woman half-bird creature of Ancient Greece