Chris Kelly b. 1953

  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Contemporary Hobart political cartoonist and sculptor who has published at least two cartoon anthologies including "Is that a banana republic or are you just not pleased to see me?"
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cartoonist and sculptor, was a political cartoonist on Green Left Weekly in the 1990s. He lives in Hobart and has published at least two cartoon anthologies: Is that a banana republic or are you just not pleased to see me? (Hobart: Gossip Press, 1992) and Headless chickens (Hobart: Diogenes Press, 1988). No cheap thriller (on Senator Colston) and My friend the chart , published in Green Left Weekly on 21 May and 25 June 1997, were exhibited in the National Museum of Australia/ Old Parliament House exhibition Bringing the House Down: 12 Months of Australian Political Humour (Canberra, 1997), cats 69 and 82. He had two cartoons (words on Kennett and an East Timor eye) in the 1999 competition and two in 2001 (probably also included in 2000). He also occasionally makes sculptures with political themes.

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1996
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