Eric Thake 'Comparisons' - Collected by Murray first nations artist

Eric Thake 'Comparisons' - Collected by Murray first nations artistEvery 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. They also speak to Thakes innerworld, with this particular work coming from the collection of his friend, revered writer and curator Ursula Hoff. Comparisons is a comment on the art world. It pictures a gallery visitor looking at an

Image Size: 120 x 69 cm

'Acacia and Blackboys' 2004

each flower more varied than the last

pleading and speaking a language we do not know

the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery

In his Alchemy series

surrounded by a constellation of fantastical debris: flowers

It is dreamlike

Larwill's playful style beams

This work of art comes from the artists Auspicious Charms for Transcultural Living series in 2008

Dated 1906

This is rare