Rik Kemp

Also known as Rik
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Late 20th century cartoonist and a member of the Black and White Artists Club who contributed to the Bulletin.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1996
Name
Rik Kemp
Also known as Rik
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Active Period
  • c.1971- c.1995
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists

cartoonist, a member of the Black and White Artists’ Club, contributed to the Bulletin in the 1980s. His biography in 'Australia’s magnificent cartoonists’, Bulletin 12 November 1985, 110, states: 'Rik Kemp has been a part-time cartoonist for 14 years who would prefer to be a full-time cartoonist, but the family have to eat! Interests: humor [ sic ], current affairs, popular fiction, and travel (when the purse-strings allow).’ The Australian Black and White Artists’ Club Inkspot 1992-95 collection (Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney PXD 586) contains his 'A simple thank you would have sufficed, Joanne!’ and 'Republic now’.

Image and short biographical entry in Australian Black-and-White Artists Club Book of Originals (1986), Art Gallery of New South Wales(178.1988.1-102).

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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
associate of
Rick Amor
1948
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Australian Black and White Artists' Club
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Republic now
A simple thank you would have sufficed, Joanne!
Collections
Citations:
  • (1986), Australian Black-and-White Artists Club Book of Originals, (Place: Australian Black and White Artists' Club, [178.1988.1-102], Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney)
  • (1985), Australia's magnificent cartoonists, (Place: Sydney, NSW: Bulletin, 11-12, p 110)
See also:
  • Self-portrait in 'Australia's magnificent cartoonists', p110