Charles Blackman 'Metamorphosis' impressionism reminiscent of foliage caramelised under

reminiscent of foliage caramelised under the Australian sun

Alun was among the artists who with a hard edge - shifted the course of Australian art history

is there anything more liberating than to dance

sometimes disconcerting — engrosses the viewer

Charles Blackman 'Metamorphosis' impressionism reminiscent of foliage caramelised underIn Metamorphosis, Charles Blackman captures his beloved Alice enraptured by change. The work speaks to a universal yet deeply personal experience of transition, where imagination shapes reality and feeling becomes a form of sight. As poet Judith Wright observed, Blackmans images ask us to apprehend through emotion as much as through looking. Here, the figure dissolves and reforms within a field of graphic flowers and symbolic fragments, an aesthetic