Alan Moir b. 1948

  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Prolific contemporary New Zealand-born, Sydney-based newspaper cartoonist. Moir won the inaugural Stanley Award for Artist of the Year in 1985. He joined the Sydney Morning Herald in 1984 as their political cartoonist where he still works today.

Citations

  • Moir, Alan (c.1987), 'David and the Goliaths’.

  • Moir, Alan, 'Smile, It’s Joh’s Place’.

  • Moir, Alan (co-authored and illustrated), 'Joh’s Family Album : Flo Goes to Canberra’.

  • Adams, Phillip (1986), 'Arrest that Cartoonist!’, Ringwood, Vic : Penguin.

  • Grant, Ian F. (1987), 'The Unauthorised Version : a cartoon history of New Zealand’, Auckland, NZ : David Bateman (in association with Fraser Books) (2nd edition).

  • Grant, Ian F. (1989), 'Drawing the Line : Cartoons across the Tasman: an exhibition of work by New Zealand cartoonists’, Wellington, NZ : Ministry of External Relations and Trade, p 48.

  • Judd, Craig (1999), 'Australians in black & white : (the most public art)’, Sydney, NSW : State Library of New South Wales.

  • Moir, Alan (1984), 'Rome Rules No.II’, St Kilda West, Vic : Orin Books.

  • Sydney, NSW : Sydney Morning Herald.

  • (1986), 'Australian Black and White Artists Club book of originals’, Sydney, NSW : Australian Black and White Artists Club / Art Gallery of New South Wales (178.1988.1-102).

  • Turner, Ann (ed.) (2000), 'In Their Image’, Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia.

  • Turner, Ann, 'Oral History interviews’, Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia.

  • Grant, Ian F. (1988), 'The Kiwi invasion that never stopped’, Sydney, NSW : Bulletin, 11-15, p 114.

  • Hansen, Guy (2005), '[Cartoons 2004] : Behind the lines : The year’s best cartoons’, Canberra, ACT : National Museum of Australia.

  • Radcliffe, Russ (ed.) (2003), 'Best Australian political cartoons 2003’, Melbourne, Vic : Scribe.

  • Radcliffe, Russ (ed.) (2004), 'Best Australian political cartoons 2004’, Melbourne, Vic : Scribe.

  • Radcliffe, Russ (ed.) (2005), 'Best Australian political cartoons 2005’, Melbourne, Vic : Scribe.

  • Alexander, Harriet (2006), 'Courage and dignity shine at awards’, Sydney, NSW : Sydney Morning Herald, 12-01, p 2.

See also

  • 'Photo in 'Australia's magnificent cartoonists', Bulletin 12 November 1985, 97.'.
  • 'Self portrait at desk in Ian F. Grant, Drawing the Line: Cartoons across the Tasman: an exhibition of work by New Zealand cartoonists, Wellington, Ministry of External Relations and Trade, 1989, 48.'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists