Lindsay Foyle
- Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
- Name
- Lindsay Foyle
Also known as Lindsay
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
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- Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
- Residence
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- c.1997- Stanmore, Sydney, NSW
- Other Occupation
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- cartoon historian
- Active Period
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- c.1959- c.2006
- Languages
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- English
- Is Indigenous
- No
- Initial Record Data Source
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- Black and white artists
Biography
cartoonist and cartoon historian, worked for the Daily Telegraph and regularly contributed to the post-1960s Bulletin . Examples of his work, signed 'Lindsay’, in Australian Black and White Artists’ Club [ABWAC] collection (Mitchell Library) include a gag re queen as head of republic (from Bulletin ?). In 1999 he contributed occasional cartoons to the Sydney Morning Herald 's 'Stay in Touch’ page, then got a more regular job contributing pocket cartoons to the Australian . President ABWAC 1994-96, succeeding Steve Panozzo . Has a Polish wife and at least one child (son).
Foyle’s articles on Australian cartoon history include 'The Top Cartoonists of 1988’, Bulletin supplement 15 November 1988, 91-114 (re Kev Bailey , Benier , Warren Brown , Patrick Cook , Mark Cornwall , Hook , Mark Knight , Langoulant , Leahy , Leak , Leong , Michael Leunig , Matthew Martin , Mitchell , Moir , Nicholson , Vince O’Farrell , Petty , Pryor , Rigby , Tandberg , Rod Waller and Zanetti ). 'Hidden from history: The funny women’, Bulletin 21 November 1989, 101-7, stated that at least 20 women contributed cartoons and illustrations on a regular basis to the magazine between 1919 and 1939. Other articles include 'The Black and White Club’, Oz Arts 12 (September-December) 1995, 62-63 (historic information may be unreliable) and 'The dispossed (sic) art of those who are quick on the draw”, Australian 29 September 1997, 15 (plea for a cartooning museum to enshrine our great cartoonists – all men, some with surnames misspelt – headed by a strip by “Wilko” of a malevolent looking cartoonist with curled moustache and goatee building the museum himself, presumably a portrait of Foyle).
He exhibited 'Colston’, published in the Australian in March 1997, in Bringing the House Down: 12 Months of Australian Political Humour (Canberra: National Museum of Australia/ Old Parliament House exhibition, 1997), cat. 67. He also exhibited in 2001 and presumably in between.
- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
Michael Leunig
Peter Nicholson
Bruce Leslie Petty
Cartoons 2004: Behind the lines: The year's best cartoons
Bringing the House Down
Bringing the House Down: 12 Months of Australian Political Humour
Recognitions
best political cartoon & merit for Olympic cartoon
- Radcliffe, Russ (ed.), (2004), Best Australian political cartoons 2004, (Place: Melbourne, Victoria: Scribe)
- Hansen, Guy, (2005), [Cartoons 2004]: Behind the lines: The year's best cartoons, (Place: Canberra: National Museum of Australia)
- Foyle, Lindsay, (1989), 'Hidden from history: The funny women', (Place: Sydney, NSW: Bulletin, 11-21, p 101-7)
- Foyle, Lindsay, (1988), 'The Top Cartoonists of 1988', (Place: Sydney, NSW: Bulletin supplement, 11-15, pp 91-114)
- Foyle, Lindsay, (1997), 'The dispossed art of those who are quick on the draw', (Place: Australian, 09-29, p 15)
- Foyle, Lindsay, (1995), 'The Black and White Club', (Place: Oz Arts 12 (September-December), pp 62-63)
- (1986), Australian Black-and-White Artists Club Book of Originals, (Place: Sydney, New South Wales: Australian Black-and-White Artists Club / AGNSW (178.1988.1-102).)
- Self portrait in 'Australia's magnificent cartoonists', Bulletin 12 November 1985, p 102