Charles Blackman 'Miss Muffet and Her Spider' the field revisited

Charles Blackman 'Miss Muffet and Her Spider' the field revisitedCharles Blackman has a penchant for storytelling. His most iconic work either pivots around a story (Alice in Wonderland, for example) or operates like a story, using visual techniques to pique intrigue. 'Miss Muffett (sic) and her Spider is an example of both. Inspired by the eponymous nursery rhyme, this etching is strangely mysterious. It sees a girl sit on an open palm, her back to us, a red spiderweb yawning above her. At its most basic, the

Over eighty years ago

birds represented both freedom and stability

Meditative

how do I recognise someone I’ve never met

Onus’s work is a negotiation of culture identity

Griffith University

these figures are cast like shadows - elongated

'Pyrophyte I' is a striking find for collectors of contemporary prints

golden deserts and theological phrases

She has been a Swan Hill print prize finalist and commissioned printmaker for Print Council of Australia’s annual print commission

titled and editioned in pencil in margin below image

akin to the legendary folklore of Robin Hood