caricaturist, has been working as a cartoonist and illustrator for the Australian (ACP) since 1995. He won the 1996 Rotary National and International Award of Cartoon of the Year for his portrait of Jeff Kennett with mailed fist (the first prize for caricature was won by Joanne Applegate for another caricature of Kennett). By the end of 2001 he had won five Stanley Awards (Artist of the Year Gold Stanley 2000, Bronze Stanley 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000), two W.G. Walkley Awards (1996, 2000) and two Rotary National Cartoon Awards (Cartoon of the Year 1996, Category winner 2000).
'The slow road to the republic’ and 'Cuts to the public service’, published in the Weekend Australian on 8 February 1997 and 13 April 1996, and 'The legal split – Wik’, published in the Australian on 1 April 1997, were exhibited in the NMA/ Old Parliament House exhibition Bringing the House Down: 12 Months of Australian Political Humour (Canberra, 1997) cats 39, 80 & 97. He had three drawings in the 2001 show (and was presumably also represented in between).
Rainbow used his view of a 1901 Father of Federation lassooing a cloud in the shape of the Australian coat of arms as the frontispiece of her Federation cartoonists’ catalogue, stating:
“it symbolises a nation built on dreams. Blackfellas dreaming. Whitefellas dreaming in Helen Irving’s terms. While the Arunta, the Yolngu, the Waripiri and other indigenous people performed their rituals of dreaming, white men were dreaming of those people’s lands…”
- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
Note:
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
