Review 2015

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LURE OF THE SUN
CHARLES BLACKMAN
IN QUEENSLAND
7 NOVEMBER 2015 – 31 JANUARY 2016
QAG
CURATOR / MICHAEL HAWKER,
ASSOCIATE CURATOR, AUSTRALIAN ART
Members of the Blackman family
at the Foundation Viewing of
‘Lure of the Sun’ / November 2015 /
Photograph: Joe Ruckli
A visitor with The Blue Alice1956–57 /
Purchased2000.TheQueenslandGovernment’s
special Centenary Fund / November 2015 /
©Charles Blackman. Licensed by Viscopy,
Sydney 2016 / Photograph: Chloë Callistemon
The connections of one of Australia’s most important
artists to Queensland, where he spent a good portion
of his career living and working, were explored in this
Glencore Queensland Artists’ Gallery exhibition.
LURE OF THE SUN
Whispering shadowed dawn arise
See the world through Alice eyes
Kettle sings to brush in hand
Descending dappled Wonderland
Beneath the faithful Queensland house
Blue Alice, rabbit and dormouse
Gilded by a Gertrude flower
Amidst the splendid perfumed hour
Gerbera Roses Daisy Lily
Earthen breezeway Indooroopilly
Expounding wild magenta dream
Away to Barjai Tamborine
Pandanus palms Maroochydore
Blackman paints our fatal shore
A tea pot tips inspiring brew
Alice grows a foot or two
‘Drink Me’ now and you can be
A golden girl kissed by the sea
Through The Looking Glass we leap
Falling down in jumbled heap
And here at last we’re joined as one
Spellbound by a Lure of Sun
WRITTEN AND READ BY AUGUSTE BLACKMAN
AT THE OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION,
7 NOVEMBER 2015.
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