Lindsay Foyle

Also known as Lindsay
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Contemporary Sydney magazine and newspaper cartoonist and cartoon historian.
Name
Lindsay Foyle
Also known as Lindsay
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Residence
  • c.1997- Stanmore, Sydney, NSW
Other Occupation
  • cartoon historian
Active Period
  • c.1959- c.2006
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists

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
associate of
Steve Panozzo
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Kevin Bailey
1938
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Warren Brown
1965
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Patrick Cook
1949
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Mark Cornwall
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Mark Knight
1962
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Allan Langoulant
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Sean Leahy
1958
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Bill Leak
1956
Artist (Painter), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Michael Leunig
1945
Artist (Screen Artist), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Matthew Martin
1952
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Alan Moir
1948
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Peter Nicholson
1946
Artist (Screen Artist), Artist (Sculptor), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Vince O'Farrell
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Bruce Leslie Petty
1929
Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Sculptor), Artist (Screen Artist), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Designer
associate of
Geoff Pryor
1944
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Paul Rigby
1925
Artist (Painter), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Ron Tandberg
1943
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Paul Zanetti
1961
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Bill Mitchell
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Frank Benier
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Jeff Hook
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Leong
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Rod Waller
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Jenny Coopes
1945
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
William Mitchell
1941
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Norm Rice
1913
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Les Tanner
1927
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Suzanne White
1966
Artist (Screen Artist), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Wilko
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Australian Black-and-White Artists Club
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Cartoons 2004: Behind the lines: The year's best cartoons
2005
Exhibition ()
National Museum of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Bringing the House Down
2001
Exhibition ()
National Museum of Australia/ Old Parliament House, Canberra, ACT
Bringing the House Down: 12 Months of Australian Political Humour
1997
Exhibition ()
National Museum of Australia / Old Parliament House, Canberra
Recognitions
best comic
Award
Coffs Harbour (Rotary) Cartoon Competition, 2000
best political cartoon & merit for Olympic cartoon
Award
Coffs Harbour (Rotary) Cartoon Competition, 1999
President, Australian Black-and-White Artists Club
1994
Award
Between 1994 and 1996
Citations:
  • 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).)
See also:
  • Self portrait in 'Australia's magnificent cartoonists', Bulletin 12 November 1985, p 102