Charles Blackman

Charles Blackman was born in Sydney in 1928; he spent his childhood in Queensland before leaving school at the age of thirteen to work as an illustrator and subeditors copyboy at the Sydney Sun newspaper.

Being an Australian painter, noted for the Schoolgirl and Alice in wonderland series of the 1950s. He was a member of the Antipodeans, a group of Melbourne painters that also included Arthur Boyd, David Boyd, John Brack, Robert Dickerson, John Perceval and Clifton Pugh.