Peter Nicholson b. 1946

Also known as Peter Harvey Nicholson
  • Artist (Screen Artist),
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Cartoonist and sculptor. Created the "Rubbery Figures". His 1995-96 solo exhibition The Rubbery Years attracted over 36,600 people in its first six weeks at Old Parliament House, Canberra, prior to a national tour.

Citations

  • 'The National’.

  • (21 October 1833), 'Australian’.

  • 'Age’.

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

  • Germaine, Max (1990), 'Artists & galleries of Australia’, Craftsman House (3rd, enlarged, edition), Roseville, NSW.

  • McCulloch, Alan and McCulloch, Susan (1994), 'Encyclopedia of Australian art’, Allen & Unwin (3rd revised edition), St Leonards, NSW.

  • (1983), 'Twenty-seven Deadly Sins’, Penguin, Ringwood, Vic.

  • (2000), 'In Their Image’, Senyard, Ann Turner, ed., Canberra, ACT.

  • Walsh, Richard (1993), 'Ferretabilia – life and times of Nation review’, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Qld.

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

  • Nicholson, Peter (1995), 'Nicholson’s Jabs’, Mandarin, Port Melbourne, Vic.

  • Nation Review.

  • Australian Financial Review.

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

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

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

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

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

See also

  • 'Artists and Cartoonists in Black and White, ill. Swain, page 149', Bicentennial Re-enactment 1988' (in possession of the artist): film director to group of Aborigines facing a white man dressed as a colonial soldier with lots of spears poking through him, "No, no, no, no! No ad libbing, please", original of cartoon published Age 7 August 1987: included in 'Rubbery Years' travelling exhibition, NMA, Canberra 1995 (at Greenway Gallery, Hyde Park Barracks, January 1996); ill. Swain 149; included in Joan Kerr, Jo Holder and Craig Judd's 1999 b/w art exhibition at S.H. Ervin and in accompanying Joan Kerr's book, Artists and Cartoonists in Black and White.
  • 'Front page, Age, 9 June 1976', Self-portrait cartoon on front page of Age (Melbourne) 9 June 1976 among other men proclaimed as 'Australia's finest gallery of cartoonists'; self portrait, Overland 67 (1977), 66; 'Report Card', Weekend Australian (Media) 1-7 April, 1999, p.6 (6 self portraits with a comment by each cartoonist himself (sic), an artist and a politician (anon).

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists