Charles Blackman 'Mask' roar studios After initial success as a

After initial success as a Field artist in the late 1960s

expressionism and surrealism to convey the strangeness of existence

an early Victorian pioneering family

won the Archibald’s Packing Room Prize

Charles Blackman 'Mask' roar studios After initial success as aButterflies are recurrent motifs in Charles Blackmans work. They flutter through his gardens, streets and Wonderland, winking at the idea of transformation. Indeed, butterflies evolving from lowly caterpillars into flight are a utopian ideal made real. It is true that our identity is in constant movement, and our hope that it will follow the butterfly. In this exceptionally rare work, Charles Blackman uses the butterfly to express the general by the