Few artists of Thake's period touched on the issue of Aboriginal dispossession and the lives led by Aboriginal people on the fringes of European society within Australia. Thake himself did not make it a major theme in his art, but his sympathy to the Aboriginal condition emerges in a number of his images.
Thake produced two covers for the Australian literary journal in 1950.
In 1953, Thake created this image as a Christmas card for his friends.
During 1956 and 1957, Eric Thake designed a series of decorative panels for the Museum of Victoria's galleries of Aboriginal life and culture.
In his manuscript memoir (c1960), Thake documents his sighting of an Aborigine in a Melbourne lane. | 
