Biography
Charles Blackman was born in Sydney in 1928. Between 1943 and 1946, he attended drawing classes at East Sydney Technical College and then, after working as a press artist with the Sydney Sun, Blackman moved to Melbourne in 1950 where he began painting professionally.
Since then Blackman has held numerous one-man exhibitions in Australia and contributed to group shows such as the Festival of Perth "Invitation Exhibition" in 1996 and the "Retrospective Drawing Exhibition" in 1974.
Overseas exhibitions featuring Blackman's work include "Australian Painting" Whitechapel Gallery, London (1961), "Australians Abroad" Britain (1962), "The Twenty Nations Exhibition" Saigon (1962), "Australian Painting" Tate Gallery, London (1963) and the "Young Australians" exhibition, Japan (1965).
In more recent years Blackman has exhibited his "Alice in Wonderland" series at Heide Gallery, Box Hill (1983) and featured at the Greenhill Gallery, Adelaide Festival (1984).
Amongst the notable awards received by Blackman are the Roweny Prize 1959, the Helena Rubenstein Travelling Art Scholarship 1960, the Crouch Prize 1960, and the Silver Medal at "The Twenty Nations Exhibition" Saigon, 1962. For his outstanding contribution to Australian art, Charles Blackman was awarded an OBE and the Queen's Jubilee Medal in 1977.
Blackman is represented in the major National, State and University collections of Australia, as well as in many private and corporate collections in Australia and overseas.
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