Peter Nicholson b. 1946

Also known as Peter Harvey Nicholson
  • Artist (Screen Artist),
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Cartoonist and sculptor. Created the "Rubbery Figures". His 1995-96 solo exhibition The Rubbery Years attracted over 36,600 people in its first six weeks at Old Parliament House, Canberra, prior to a national tour.
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Citations

  • 'The National’.

  • (21 October 1833), 'Australian’.

  • 'Age’.

See also

  • 'Artists and Cartoonists in Black and White, ill. Swain, page 149', Bicentennial Re-enactment 1988' (in possession of the artist): film director to group of Aborigines facing a white man dressed as a colonial soldier with lots of spears poking through him, "No, no, no, no! No ad libbing, please", original of cartoon published Age 7 August 1987: included in 'Rubbery Years' travelling exhibition, NMA, Canberra 1995 (at Greenway Gallery, Hyde Park Barracks, January 1996); ill. Swain 149; included in Joan Kerr, Jo Holder and Craig Judd's 1999 b/w art exhibition at S.H. Ervin and in accompanying Joan Kerr's book, Artists and Cartoonists in Black and White.
  • 'Front page, Age, 9 June 1976', Self-portrait cartoon on front page of Age (Melbourne) 9 June 1976 among other men proclaimed as 'Australia's finest gallery of cartoonists'; self portrait, Overland 67 (1977), 66; 'Report Card', Weekend Australian (Media) 1-7 April, 1999, p.6 (6 self portraits with a comment by each cartoonist himself (sic), an artist and a politician (anon).

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  • Black and white artists

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Related stub people
  • Mitchell, Bill (associate of)
Related stub person groups
  • Australian Black and White Artists' Club (associate of)
  • Nation Review (associate of)
  • Australian Financial Review (associate of)
  • Age (associate of)
Related people
  • Australian Enlarging and Portrait Paintings Co., (associate of)
Related works
  • Mouthguard (creator of)
  • One Day my Boy (creator of)
  • Sqirrel Grip (creator of)
  • John Howard's Cricket Clinic (creator of)
  • The Miniaturist (creator of)
  • Destruction (creator of)
Related collections
  • La Trobe Valley Regional Art Gallery (collected in)
  • City of Ballaarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Vic (collected in)
  • La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic (collected in)
  • State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld (collected in)
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
Related recognitions
  • Best cartoon (Bringing the House Down) (received)
  • Walkley award, Best cartoon (received)
  • Walkley award - Best cartoon (received)
  • Melbourne Savage Club Centenary Art Prize for Politics (received)
Related events
  • The Rubbery Years (exhibited at)