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Alice is a Blackman

September 15th 2006 12:18
‘Employed as a short-order cook in East Melbourne, where he was involved with chairs, tables and dishes and people, the restaurant came into the paintings’

This is a quote from the wall text from the Charles Blackman Alice in Wonderland exhibition at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia. With the postulations that Alice in Blackman’s series represents the artist’s wife Barbara Blackman, who was losing her vision, the ‘curatorgait’ hype surrounding the show and the drug references throughout Lewis Carroll’s text, perhaps the peculiar wall text it trying to emulate the nonsense verse Carroll invented.



Thankfully the wall labels quote passages from the magic of the original story. It’s impossible not to be moved by the story of Alice. She may represent a Blackman in the exhibition but she also represents our boundless imaginings.

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Comment by Cinico

September 15th 2006 12:32
Loved Alice in Wonderland........she ate too many 'mushrooms' I reckon.

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