Eric Thake 'She's late today!' - Collected by Rita contemporary

Eric Thake 'She's late today!' - Collected by Rita contemporaryEvery 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 inner world, with this particular work coming from the collection of his friend, revered writer and curator Ursula Hoff. Dated 1958, this is a marvellous work. In it, a somewhat sheepish hippopotamus sidles

For collectors of contemporary landscape art and those interested in Australian history

Edition of 85

Peter Kingston's landscapes capture the charm and texture of life on the Australian coastline

Ruth JOHNSTONE (1955 - )

numbered and editioned in margin

she fills the frame

Among Australia's most distinguished modern artists

'Ricciarda'

started drawing at Charles’s encouragement

funny and Shakespearean

the thrashing sea becomes a site of alienation

The scene is humorous and intriguing