Blackman, Barbara

Barbara Blackman is an Australian essayist, librettist and letter writer. Barbara’s biography ‘Glass after Glass’ inspired another look at her amazing life. At 15 Barbara Blackman was the youngest member of ‘Barjai’, an avant-garde writers group in Brisbane (Thea Astley was the eldest at 21). After marrying the painter Charles Blackman, they moved to Melbourne in the fifties, linking up with key names in Australian art today; Arthur Boyd, Fred Williams, Joy Hester, John and Sunday Reed, Clifton Pugh, John Perceval, Len French, Mirka Mora and many more. She currently resides in Canberra.