John Ditchburn

  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Contemporary cartoonist based in Ballarat, Victoria.
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cartoonist, studied Art and Design in 1982, then drifted through a succession of jobs mostly unrelated to the arts until he became a regular cartoonist on the Ballarat Courier in 1990. He exhibited 'Economic rationalism drapers’, published in the Ballarat Courier on 7 July 1997, and 'One Nation green grocer’ [Pauline Hanson] of 23 May 1997, in Bringing the House Down: 12 Months of Australian Political Humour (Canberra: National Museum of Australia/ Old Parliament House exhibition, 1997), cats 25, 46. He also showed two cartoons in the 2001 show (and presumably in 2000). Ditchburn has also published in Eureka Street , Independent Monthly , Border Morning Mail , Australasian Post and other magazines and newspapers. He lives in Ballarat with his family, a cat and 11 chickens. His hobbies are skindiving, growing vegetable and 'observing chickens and people’.

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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007

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References [<ExternalResource: 'INKCINCT website'.>, <ExternalResource: 'National Museum of Australia website'.>, <ExternalResource: (7 July 1997), Ballarat, Vic : Ballarat Courier.>, <ExternalResource: (1997), 'Bringing the House Down: 12 Months of Australian Political Humour', Canberra, ACT : National Museum of Australia/Old Parliament House.>, <ExternalResource: Hansen, Guy (2005), '[Cartoons 2004] : Behind the lines : The year's best cartoons', Canberra, ACT : National Museum of Australia.>, <ExternalResource: Radcliffe, Russ (ed.) (2004), 'Best Australian political cartoons 2004', Melbourne, Vic : Scribe.>, <ExternalResource: Radcliffe, Russ (ed.) (2005), 'It's all happening : the Scribe book of Australian sports cartoons', Melbourne, Vic : Scribe.>] [<ExternalResource: 'INKCINCT website'.>, <ExternalResource: 'National Museum of Australia website'.>]