Charles Blackman 'Schoolgirls, from Girls and Flowers portfolio' first nations artist she fills the frame

she fills the frame

Rosendale is inspired by the collective memories of popular culture

Miki for example

'Go Player Rocks and Rain' 1978

inviting the outside world into the heart of his composition

Charles Blackman 'Schoolgirls, from Girls and Flowers portfolio' first nations artist she fills the frameFrom 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,