Auguste Blackman 'Woman in Orange Foliage' organic & textural Beard won the Welsh National

Beard won the Welsh National Art Scholarship and proceeded to study at the Royal College of Art in London

irrevocably moved

perhaps submitting to music

'Friends 1942' 2002

Paper Size: 57 x 51 cm

Auguste Blackman 'Woman in Orange Foliage' organic & textural Beard won the Welsh NationalAuguste Blackman grew up the son of two icons: Charles and Barbara Blackman. The former was a prominent figure in Australian Modernism; a man whose Schoolgirls and Alices are embedded in our visual lexicon. The latter, Barbara Blackman, is a poet, writer, advocate and muse. By the age of twenty two she was blind, a diagnosis that at first felt like a life sentence for a crime I had not committed but in turn gave her a unique outlook on life. Like