Auguste Blackman 'Minos' pop let ‘Dark Sunset’ open your

let ‘Dark Sunset’ open your collection’s horizons

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Lovely original etching from one of the country's foremost contemporary artists

an orange offering in each of their laps

Ashley Jones hails from Western Australia

Auguste Blackman 'Minos' pop let ‘Dark Sunset’ open yourAccording to myth, the minotaur symbolises the meeting of opposites: the feminine and masculine; creature and human; rational and irrational; spiritual and instinctual; and, good and evil. This duality underlies Auguste Blackmans images of minotaurs, who despite their beastliness, feel familiar. In Minos, Auguste paints a minotaur lost in thought. Serene and reticent, this creature has been civilised its mythic fate paused at a moment of pensive