Auguste BLACKMAN 'Sea Creatures II' abstract art recasting its colonial logic as

recasting its colonial logic as the very subject of the work

It recalls Kenneth Clark’s famous delineation between naked and nude — the former denoting the unclothed

Street Cricket Boots reflects Turier’s ability—honed through his background as a skilled craftsperson—to elevate the mundane into something unexpectedly resonant

drawing a line between the resourcefulness of Australian street culture and the formal language of three-dimensional abstraction

Auguste BLACKMAN 'Sea Creatures II' abstract art recasting its colonial logic asIn this work, Auguste Blackman takes us to the ocean floor to bump fins with crabs, turtles and puffer fish. We meander through a psychedelic seascape, a cornucopia of visual delights to gaze upon blushes of blue, swirls of seaweed and speckled plankton. Blackmans work is informed by a childhood spent among Australias most renowned and lively modernists. Whether reflecting on this experience or demonstrating a born passion for painting, he remains a