Charles Blackman 'Alice's Shoe' Framing:UnframedAn adroit storyteller, Charles Blackmans rendition of Alice in Wonderland is askew. He opens on a shoe, unsuspecting but for the telltale window winking at it. This shoe is impossibly large swollen to dwarf the world it walks. For Blackman, Alices adventures in Wonderland were metaphoric of his then wife, Barbaras, experience of blindness. All is topsy turvy in this reality, intractable and out of scale. What is whimsical, fast becomes disorientating.
Signed: Signed and editioned in margin David Larwill
His writing was a call for self-determination
Paper Dimensions: 75 x 57
Dimensions: 132 x 100 x 4 cm
Hall presents a distorted portrait
the work alludes to history
the pochoir unites art and the artisanal to give each work the feel of an original painting
It’s where our protagonist would take refuge
Audette overlays newspaper print with paint and gestural horses
Majzner is an artist who cares deeply for the physical and spiritual realms
There is more going on that can be easily synthesized
Chapter 10 V Majzner 2001
