Eric Thake 'Mirage People, Alice Springs' - Collected by Yuka cool tones ‘Hunter Valley Morning’ pictures the

‘Hunter Valley Morning’ pictures the landscape in movement

He is whole-heartedly a humanist

He had won the prestigious Cite des Artes scholarship and upon setting down in France

‘The Drama’ speaks to the personal and profound

Eric Thake 'Mirage People, Alice Springs' - Collected by Yuka cool tones ‘Hunter Valley Morning’ pictures theEvery 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