Eric Thake 'Mirage People, Alice Springs' - Collected by Yuka mixed media

Eric Thake 'Mirage People, Alice Springs' - Collected by Yuka mixed mediaEvery year, modernist Eric Thake would send his friends a hand made Christmas card. Original linocut prints, these cards have since become canonical, each observing a changing nation through one its most distinct voices. There are notes of humour, critique and poeticism. Dated 1946, Mirage People, Alice Springs is a scene distilled from one of Thakes intermittent trips into Australias centre. It is surreal, a constellation of blurry figures under the

signed and dated in margin

She is an explorer

Glattauer has exhibited at the Museum of Victoria

Dimensions: 91 x 120 cm

draftsman and architect — a swell of talents so various that novelist Morris West wrote

- Deutscher

she traces the smoky silhouette of a tree at dusk

there also lies a warning to be cautious: enjoy the sun but dont let yourself drift too far beyond the horizon

‘Visitation’ is a breathtaking find

A painter and printmaker

In Melbourne

Larwill drew - and lived - to the beat of his own drum