Charles Blackman OBE
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“Sailsong”2000Edition of 70 Collagraph Image size: 60cm x 90cm Paper size: 74cm x 105cm Colours: 30 Plates: 5 RRP AUD $5,500 [inc GST] |
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“Within Without”1998-2000 [The Orpheus Suite]Edition of 70 Collagraph Image size: 60 cm x 85 cm Paper size: 107 x 76 cm approx Colours: 50 Plates: 6 RRP AUD $8,000 [inc GST] |
| For Blackman nothing is fixed. Glimpses and perceptions of here and there cause the inner and the outer world to combine to form a flowering image of life and music. | |
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“Lifesong”1998-2000 [The Orpheus Suite]Edition of 70 Collagraph Image size: 59cm x 89cm Paper size: 76cm x 102cm Colours: 40 Plates: 7 RRP AUD $8,000 [inc GST] |
| Blackman depicts the lifeforce as a song that encircles all of thought and growth in the country of the heart. | |
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“The Singer”1998-2000 [The Orpheus Suite]Edition of 70 Collagraph Image size: 66 cm x 90 cm Paper size: 78cm x 102cm Colours: 50 Plates: 6 RRP AUD $8,000 [inc GST] |
| The image of the Orpheus, the Singer, is at the heart of the myth that Blackman has evoked in his lyrical Orpheus Series. Blackman has painted emotions and dreams in a way rarely realized by any artist | |
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“Girl with the Trumphet Lillies”1993Edition of 40 Collagraph Image size: 78 cm x 60 cm RRP AUD $8,000 [inc GST] |
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“Mindsong”1998-2000 The Orpheus SuiteEdition of 70 Collagraph Image size: 65 x 86cm SOLD OUT |
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“Lovesong”1998-2000 [The Orpheus Suite]Edition of 70 Collagraph Image size: 90 cm x 65 cm Paper size: 107 x 76 cm Colours: 30 Plates: 6 SOLD OUT |
| In this amazingly tender image, the lovers transcend there earthly shapes to become a new being. Entwined in bird form, their love brings wings. | |
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“Song Garden”1998-2000 [The Orpheus Suite]Edition of 70 Collagraph Image size: 65 cm x 86 cm Paper size: 77cm x 106cm Colours: 20 Plates: 6 SOLD OUT |
| Orpheus is the story of the creative force externally working in the world. Songs grow in a garden that flowers forever. | |
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“Timesong”1998-2000 [The Orpheus Suite]Edition of 70 Collagraph Image size: 90cm x 65cm Paper size: 106cm x 77cm Colours: 50 Plates: 6 SOLD OUT |
| Blackman sees the Orpheus transformation of time and space as a timeless shape carrying external colour and images | |
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“Harpsong”1998-2000 [The Orpheus Suite]Edition of 70 Collagraph Image size: 60 cm x 90 cm Paper size: 75cm x 106cm Colours: 50 Plates: 7 SOLD OUT |
| The lovers who belong to music take on the very shape of music to bring their enchanted song to the world | |
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“Sunsong”1998-2000 [The Orpheus Suite]Edition of 70 Collagraph Image size: 65 cm x 90 cm Paper size: 77cm x 106cm Colours: 25 Plates: 6 SOLD OUT |
| Orpheus holds the stars and the planets under the spell of his music. The sun sings his own song of growth and renewal as he tends to the flowering of the earth. | |
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“Reflections”1998-2000 [The Orpheus Suite]Edition of 70 Collagraph Image size: 68 cm x 86 cm Paper size: 67cm x 106cm Colours: 50 Plates: 6 SOLD OUT |
| Beyond her own reflection the girl sees the image of Orpheus calling her towards her love. Blackman creates the intensity of a young girl searching to know her future. | |
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“Soulflight”1998-2000 [The Orpheus Suite]Edition of 70 Collagraph Image size: 60 cm x 93 cm Paper size: 74cm x 105cm Colours: 40 Plates: 7 SOLD OUT |
| Blackman's intensity poetic paintings of love and music in his Orpheus Suite culminate in the psychic force of Soulflight, a powerful image of the creative flight. | |
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“Sea Bride”1998-2000 [The Orpheus Suite]Edition of 70 Collagraph Image size: 60 cm x 85 cm Paper size: 107 x 76 cm approx Colours: 40 Plates: 7 SOLD OUT |
| Deep under the ocean sleeps the sea bride. The creatures of this underworld adorn her with coral and shells and flowers. She waits for her Orpheus to sing her alive. | |
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“Star Garden”1992Edition of 40 Collagraph Image size: 55 cm x 80 cm SOLD OUT |
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“Garden of the Stars”1992Edition of 40 Collagraph Image size: 55 cm x 80 cm SOLD OUT |
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“Remembrance”1990Edition of 97 Lithograph Image size: 90 cm x 62 cm Colours: 2 Plates: 2 SOLD OUT |
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“Thumbelina”1992Edition of 95 Etching Image size: 76 cm x 56 cm SOLD OUT |
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“A Sydney Childhood”1988Edition of 100 Photographic Lithograph Image size: 46 cm x 90 cm SOLD OUT |
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