Paul Compton 'Lovers / Weavers' pop

Paul Compton 'Lovers / Weavers' popPaul Compton is an illustrator, artist and print maker based in Melbourne. Featuring creatures real and imagined, Comptons work is often fantastical in nature, and through his work he blends aspects of realistic figuration with a sense of the absurd. Comptons creations are a testament to the artists ever present imagination. In his 2025 linocut Lovers Weavers, Compton explores the idea of interconnectedness. Against a black background, the two

working to turn the iconic landscape into a site of fantasy and whimsy

editioned centre

“When I went to Europe in the mid-50s… my work responded to the layering of society itself – the remnants of murals on walls

'Elizabeth's Garden II' 1991

Blackman distills the nursery rhyme

aesthetic and historic nature of photography

portraiture and Realist art

A noose hangs beside Kelly over a box marked ‘opium’ – dark

where flat surfaces hold the weight of form

where the focus shifts from the artist to the viewer

Rather than exact

titled and numbered in pencil in margin below image: 32/35 Noon V