Melinda Schawel 'Home Again Soon I' erotic Auguste Blackman’s ‘3 Minotaurs’ is

Auguste Blackman’s ‘3 Minotaurs’ is reminiscent of one of art history’s most iconic banquets

Melbourne and the National Gallery of Australia

Characteristic of surrealism

the site where the mythical she-wolf (lupa being Latin for she-wolf) suckled the twin founders of Rome

Melinda Schawel 'Home Again Soon I' erotic Auguste Blackman’s ‘3 Minotaurs’ isMelinda Schawel is interested in surfaces: how ink interacts with paper, light moves across time and how things appear. In Home Again Soon I, she presents a visual ecology; a symphony of symbols. Hard to distinguish black text hangs beside black marbling, as intricate as a spiders web. In the background, blood red clouds billow and thin. At once about the alchemy of paper, natural world and homesickness, this work breathes with stoicism. Schawel is