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
