Bill Leak

Bill Leak

Bill Leak (born 1956) is the daily editorial cartoonist on "The Australian" newspaper. He also paints portraits.

Bill's credits include 1997 and 2002 Walkley awards.

He has entered the Archibald Prize at least 13 times, and was hung 11 times. These included portraits of Donald Bradman in 1989, Malcolm Turnbull in 1994, Graham Richardson in 1995, Tex Perkins in 1997, Gough Whitlam in 1998, Sir Les Patterson in 2000 and Robert Hughes in 2001. He won the Packing Room prize twice (for Tex Perkins and Sir Les Patterson) and also won the people's choice award for Malcolm Turnbull. In addition two paintings of him by other artists have also won the people's choice award: a painting by Josonia Palaitis in 1995, and one by Esther Erlich in 2000.

He was interviewed in the 2005 Peter Berner documentary about the Archibald Prize called "Loaded Brush".

More recentlywhen he has run into trouble by portraying the then leader of the opposition (now Prime Minister of Australia) Kevin Rudd, as Tintin (accompanied by Snowy). This has been resolved by promising to not profit from any sales of cartoons from this series.

References

* [http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an13227789 Portrait of Bill Leak, editorial cartoonist, 1984] / Terry Mulligan
* [http://www.smh.com.au/news/column-8/column-8/2006/12/14/1165685823023.html Column 8 story on Bill Leak, breaking his toe]

External links

* [http://www.walkleys.com/winners/leak.html 1997 Walkely Award - Bill Leak for 'The Big Picture']
* [http://www.walkleys.com/2002/winners/leak.htm 2002 Walkley Award - Bill Leak for 'Brown Nose Day']
* [http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s1178313.htm Three Cartoonists] - transcript of Andrew Denton’s ABC interview with cartoonist Bruce Petty, Bill Leak and Patrick Cook
* [http://www.vibewire.net/3/node/4227 Drawing and quartering our pollies] - Article includes comments by Bill Leak on his cartooning and the reactions he gets


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