Auguste Blackman 'Minos' pop © Peter Kingston / Copyright

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an orange offering in each of their laps

Ashley Jones hails from Western Australia

'Hunter Valley Morning' 1995

Master print Satish Sharma described working with Blackman as “magicians leading each other from madness to madness” and etching as “like a man-eating tiger - once it gets hold of you it wont let go

Auguste Blackman 'Minos' pop © Peter Kingston / CopyrightAccording 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