Curator Lecture: Eric Thake—Do You See What I See?

Join guest curators Kirsty Grant and Alisa Bunbury for an in-depth exploration of Eric Thake—Do You See What I See? Discover how this inventive Australian artist transformed everyday observations into images of wit, humour and surprise. The lecture explores key themes across Thake’s practice, his connections to Geelong and the Gallery’s significant collection of his work, revealing his enduring influence on Australian art. 

Image: Kirsty Grant and Alisa Bunbury, Geelong Gallery 2026, Photo © Geelong Gallery

About the Curators

Kirsty Grant and Alisa Bunbury have been curatorial colleagues for many years and worked together at the National Gallery of Victoria. They have been working towards an exhibition and publication of Eric Thake’s engaging art for around twenty years. 

Alisa Bunbury is a curator and art historian with a specialisation in works on paper. She is a senior curator at the Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, where she co-curated the exhibition Ngarn Wa’ngal: Art of the gum tree, and also works as a freelance curator, writer, researcher and presenter on a wide range of topics. In 2018 she held a State Library Victoria fellowship to research Thake’s art and is compiling a catalogue raisonné of his oeuvre. 

Kirsty Grant is a curator and writer with a specialist knowledge of Australian art and design developed over two decades working with major public collections. She was Director of Heide Museum of Modern Art (2015-16) and prior to that held various roles at the National Gallery of Victoria, including Senior Curator of Australian Art (2007-14).