Barbara Blackman: 'Nice' is a word that masks over things

Ahead of the release of a documentary about her life, the doyenne of the Australian arts reflects on going blind and life with artist Charles Blackman In the film Seeing from Within, the life of its subject, Barbara Blackman – writer, patron of the arts and one-time wife of Australian painter Charles Blackman – is presented in chronological order, told in her own words. With almost anyone else, this singular focus and absence of other voices could become tiresome, but the life and ti