Charles Blackman 'Butterfly Moon' women artists honoured with a 2008 retrospective

honoured with a 2008 retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and an Art Hotel in Prahran

Celebration falls into combat as Cullen’s work teeters on the edge between seduction and brutality

sinuous branches of the gum trees and clouds of leaves met atop a walking path - beckoning one through the unusual Australian bush

two main figures convey a unique narrative

Charles Blackman 'Butterfly Moon' women artists honoured with a 2008 retrospectiveButterflies 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