Geelong Gallery · Geelong
a curator's floortalk on Eric Thake's wartime art and letters home
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Alisa will share her research into Thake’s experiences in Australia and then then-Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), his visual responses, influenced by British Surrealism, and his own personal accounts from letters written to his wife Grace. Discover how this fascinating period shaped his artistic practice and inspired some of his most compelling and thought-provoking works.
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Image (detail): Unknown photographer, Eric Thake carving Nuns on the Geelong Road, oil sheiks to Bahrein 1969, Image courtesy of the State Library of Victoria
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When is Floortalk—Eric Thake During World War II with co-curator Alisa Bunbury?
Wed 25 Nov 2026, 1pm.
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Geelong Gallery, Geelong, VIC.
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