Charles Blackman 'Bikini Beach' the field revisited

Charles Blackman 'Bikini Beach' the field revisitedFrom the Blackman familys private collection, Bikini Beach is an expression of homecoming. Created in 1972, shortly after the Blackmans returned from living in London, its a celebration of the Australian sun. Glowering English skies were replaced with sun and sand. Throughout this period, the Blackmans made numerous trips to Noosa and Bondi rewriting, as Charless son Auguste recalls, his fathers happiness. They danced to Here Comes the Sun and

warmth and beauty like few others

prove fatal

O’Connor is represented in numerous regional

Bot was exhibited as part of the National Gallery of Australia’s seminal exhibition ‘Know My Name’

'Alchemy (Brown)'

Michael Fitzgerald’s ‘Lost Cape’ is a moody landscape

Donald Friend and Roland Wakelin began experimenting under their mentor’s eye

Shimmen’s work is held by the National Gallery of Australia

into a single framed

spent his career painting back to it

it calls forth the water's force

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