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caricaturist, cartoonist, painter, book illustrator and printmaker, was born in Oxford, England. He came to Australia in 1952 with his Australian parents, evidently to the ACT where he attended Canberra Grammar. Graduated BA (Hons) Fine Arts from Sydney University (1969-72), Dip. Ed. (Art History) 1973. While working as a tutor in Fine Arts at Sydney University in the early 1970s he began painting and drawing caricatures and cartoons for Sydney newspapers. He had a solo exhibition at Watters Gallery in 1977. By 1979, when he left for London, he was a regular freelance illustrator for the Sydney Morning Herald , the National Times and the Australian Financial Review . In 1980 he contributed illustrations to The Times and Sunday Times in London.

After returning to Sydney Moore was employed as a staff illustrator on the Sydney Morning Herald (1981-82) and other Fairfax papers. Examples of his Australian work include: Star Wars (a USA sputnik as a gun chasing a USSR sputnik), Australian Financial Review 1 February 1985 (ill. Christine Dixon); untitled drawing of Australia as a repulsively fat white man 1988 (AGNSW Black and White Artists Club Book of Originals); NSW as a prison 1981 (seen at Josef Lebovic Galleries, Paddington). The Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery owns at least 10 of his pen and ink and scraperboard originals, including the scraperboard Sydney Biennale 1986, Sydney Crime Writing 1985, Discovery of Australia 1985 and Terrorism 1985, and the pen, ink and spray Sydney after the Bomb 1986. He won a Walkely illustration award in 1980.

Since 1983 Moore has been a self-employed artist living in France, then Italy. In 1984 he was awarded a residency at the Moya Dyring Studio, Cité Internationale des Arts , Paris, and held his first solo exhibition at NSW House, London the same year. In 1985 he was given a solo exhibition at Ka De We Gallery, Berlin, and had one at Pupila Gallery, Hanau, West Germany in 1986. He currently [2000] lives in Italy with his family continuing to draw and paint for regular exhibition in Italy and Australia. In February 1997 he returned to Australia for exhibitions of his paintings, drawings and prints at Coventry Gallery, Paddington and Canberra Grammar School, ACT. His recent prints are very European (surreally Dureresque) in both style and subject. Two of the Ivor series are on death in war (see 1995 catalogue). In 1999 he was also being a guide for Australian tourists in Italy (Perugia?).

Writers:

Kerr, Joan

Date written:

1996

Last updated:

2007