Matthew Martin b. 1952

  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Late 20th century Sydney and New York cartoonist
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Name
Matthew Martin
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Birth date
1952
Birth place
Broken Hill, New South Wales
Active Period
  • 1981 - 2013
Residence
  • 2001 - Sydney, New South Wales
  • 1990 - 2001 New York, NY, USA
  • 1981 - 1990 Sydney, New South Wales
  • c.1956 - c.1980 Adelaide, South Australia
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists

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cCartoonist, was born in Broken Hill and grew up in Adelaide. He took up full-time cartooning in Sydney in 1981, mainly working for the 'Stay in Touch' page of the _Sydney Morning Herald_ , e.g. 'How Balmain Is Different [4 frames of two robbers holding up man]/ "Halt! Who goes there?"/ "L-L-Lance."/"All art is political, Lance."/ "Yes, sir."/ "If I pick my nose for three hours in front of a camera..."/ "That's not art..."/ "...with no film in it."/ "That's genius."' 11 May 1985 (ill. Christine Dixon). He also drew cartoons for t. He also drew cartoons and illustrations for the National Times, The _Australian Financial Review_ in the late and The Sun Herald. Between 1980s7 and early 1990s, many illustrating humorous articles by the journalist David Dale.¶
2004 he made 150 T-shirt designs for surf brand Mambo. ¶

Martin won the Stanley Award for best single gag cartoonist in 1987 and 1988. In 1988 he won a Walkley Award for his cartoon _Progress_ ( _SMH_ 27 October 1988, 9). He contributed ink and collage series to the 'Alice 125' exhibition, e.g. _Alice i

A collection of Martin's cartoons was published as 250 Cartoons by Anne O'Donovan Windyland_ which hesubsequently published in _Good Weekend_ 3 March 1990. He stated that this was in order to put it [the exhibition?], 'like Alice, into the realm of popular culture'. His first children's book illustrations, do 1986 and as Happiness Is A Good Duck by Vintage in New York in 1989. ¶

Martin moved to New York in 1990 where he freelanced as an illustrator for most major American newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, Time magazine, The Village Voice and Rolling Stone. ¶

Martin returned to live in Sydney in 1990, were2001. He drew cartoons for _The Return of the Baked Bean_ by Sydney writer Deborah Oswald. Martin moved to New York to live in the late 1980s - see 'Beached in New York, _SMH Good Weekend_ 15 July 1995, 39-41, returning to Sydney briefly in 1995, where he again drew cartoons for the _SMH_ . He has now disappeared from its pages again, presumably having returned to NYTimes (London) 2004 - 2007 and occasionally contributed cartoons to The New Yorker and to Australian newspapers. In 2007 he was a finalist in the Dobell Prize For Drawing at the Art Gallery of NSW with his ink and brush drawings 100 Views of Wylie's Baths. He held his first solo show of Drawings at Damien Minton Gallery in Redfern in May 2008.