Bill Leak b. 1956

  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Leak began his career with art lessons, briefly attending the Julian Ashton School, Sydney. In 1982, he began cartooning, working for the Bulletin, then the Sydney Morning Herald and News Ltd. He was a multiple entrant to the Archibald Portrait Prize and won multiple awards (Walkley, Stanley Award) for his illustrations and cartoons. He also published a novel and books of his cartoons.
Tags: painter, illustrator, editorial cartoonist, portrait artist, novelist

Citations

  • Lindesay, Vane (1994), 'Drawing from life : a history of the Australian Black and White Artists’ Club’, Sydney, NSW : State Library of New South Wales Press.

  • Leak, Bill; and Anderson, Doug (1998), 'Drawing Blood’, St Leonards, Sydney, NSW : Allen & Unwin.

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

  • (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, '[Oral History interview]’, Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia.

  • Radcliffe, Russ (ed.) (2005), 'It’s all happening : the Scribe book of Australian sports cartoons’, Melbourne, Vic : Scribe.

  • Malcolm Brown. “Bill Leak 1956-2017.” obituary. Sydney Morning Herald 5 April 2017, p.33

    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/bill-leak-artist-whose-cartoons-had-a-razorsharp-political-message-20170403-gvc8dg.html

See also

  • 'Joanne Applegate, 'Bill Leak: Artist of the Year 1996', caricature on back cover of Inkspot 28 (Spring 1997).'.
  • 'Self portrait in "Australia's magnificent cartoonists" Bulletin 12 November 1985, 109.'.
  • 'Bill Leak by Peter Wilkinson 1994 (Inkspot 24, summer 1994, 36).'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists