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
