Eric Thake 'Then wrought a tomb and slept' - Collected by Peter italian artists

Eric Thake 'Then wrought a tomb and slept' - Collected by Peter italian artistsEvery 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. The second card Thake sent, Then wrought a tomb and slept (1942) is wonderfully whimsical. He imagines a chrysalis as a coffin, turning the caterpillar into Dracula while nearby,

he has been awarded the Megalo International Print Prize

The part man part bull recurs throughout the latter artist’s oeuvre

Image Size: 21 x 15 cm

Print Council of Australia Member Patron print prizes in 1983

In ‘Friends’

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe

As Rosendale takes a cowboy to a motel

In 1986 around the centenary of its construction

“I am committed to the human figure – that is where my loyalty lies

As Auguste muses “the first bird call of the day sets the mood

This exuberant screenprint by Australian artist Maeve Woods is an electrifying abstractionist piece full of colour

‘Classic wizard of oz sad tin man’ is a pochoir (posh-waar) print