Charles Blackman 'Schoolgirls, from Girls and Flowers portfolio' first nations artist Rosendale is inspired by the

Rosendale is inspired by the collective memories of popular culture

inviting the outside world into the heart of his composition

‘Life Class’ is a twist on life drawing – an artistic convention born of sketching a life model in a studio

Cast in pale blues and cream

'Go Player Rocks and Rain' 1978

Charles Blackman 'Schoolgirls, from Girls and Flowers portfolio' first nations artist Rosendale is inspired by theFrom the revered Girls and Flowers Portfolio, this work is quintessential Charles Blackman. It is evocative and mysterious a vestige of feeling over exactness. Reminiscent of his Schoolgirls series, Girl with Plaits sees a girl lying prone. She faces away from us, her hair parted to reveal the nape of her neck. The setting is ambiguous an expansive cream landscape cut against by black sky. Perhaps shes on the moon. Fluent in the language of emotion,