Floortalk—Eric Thake During World War II with co-curator Alisa Bunbury

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.

Ticket includes exhibition entry.

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

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.