Lindsay Foyle

Also known as Lindsay
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Contemporary Sydney magazine and newspaper cartoonist and cartoon historian.
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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

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References [<ExternalResource: (1986), 'Australian Black-and-White Artists Club Book of Originals', Sydney, New South Wales: Australian Black-and-White Artists Club / AGNSW (178.1988.1-102).>, <ExternalResource: Foyle, Lindsay (1995), 'The Black and White Club', Oz Arts 12 (September-December), pp 62-63.>, <ExternalResource: Foyle, Lindsay (1997), 'The dispossed art of those who are quick on the draw', Australian, 09-29, p 15.>, <ExternalResource: Foyle, Lindsay (1988), 'The Top Cartoonists of 1988', Sydney, NSW: Bulletin supplement, 11-15, pp 91-114.>, <ExternalResource: Foyle, Lindsay (1989), 'Hidden from history: The funny women', Sydney, NSW: Bulletin, 11-21, p 101-7.>, <ExternalResource: Hansen, Guy (2005), '[Cartoons 2004]: Behind the lines: The year's best cartoons', Canberra: National Museum of Australia.>, <ExternalResource: Radcliffe, Russ (ed.) (2004), 'Best Australian political cartoons 2004', Melbourne, Victoria: Scribe.>]