Charles Blackman 'Tracey Kneeling' flora

Charles Blackman 'Tracey Kneeling' floraFrom 1970 to 1971, Charles Blackman escaped Australia for Paris. He had won the prestigious Cite des Artes scholarship and upon setting down in France, fell in love with the culture, commencing what art historians refer to as his Golden Era for drawing. He set out to immerse himself in Parisian culture, to become a serious artist by mastering the nude. Tracey Kneeling comes from this era. It recalls Kenneth Clarks famous delineation between naked and

‘Philippa’ not only depicts a moment of connection in the studio

Created through collaboration between Port Jackson Press and the Australian Conservation Foundation in celebration of World Environment Week

In this early soft-ground etching

‘Untitled (Nude Standing in Water)’ is a captivating find

Here he draws two cool cats - one literal and the other figurative

Edition of 40

Image Size: 20 x 19 cm

'Flight Over the Simpson Desert 2' 2018

This work hums with new life

ideas surge and fade

Offset photolithograph on paper

Kipenzi struggled with her first calf who represented the first white rhino to be born at the Zoo in almost a decade