Charles Blackman 'Titania and Bottom' first nations artist he is the subject of

he is the subject of a recent feature documentary

he was multidisciplinary - earning esteem for his paintings

Found on the city’s outskirts

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Charles Blackman 'Titania and Bottom' first nations artist he is the subject ofThis work tells the story of Titania and Bottom from Shakespeares play, A Midsummer Nights Dream. In Shakespeares telling, Titania, Queen of the Fairies is bewitched by her husband, Oberon, to fall in love with a peasant, Nick Bottom whose head has been transmogrified into an ass. Charles Blackmans version is tender. Titania is caught in a lovers conversation, private and dreamy. There is a sweetness here, cut with distant threat; this is Blackman as