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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Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007

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