SCAF – Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

In association with the exhibition
Go Figure! Contemporary Chinese portaiture
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation presents

Caroline Baum

in conversation with

Bill Leak, cartoonist and painter

Saturday, 6 October 2012
3 – 4 pm

Exhibition dates:

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
15 September – 1 December 2012

National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
13 September 2012 – 17 Feburary 2013

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Speakers:

As a foetus, Bill Leak had his little, pre-natal heart set on being born in a place where signs of civilization were already in abundance because he didn’t want to have to spend the rest of his life looking for them. So it came as a great shock to him when, eventually, he emerged, in 1956, in Adelaide, South Australia. It’s no wonder he ended up a cartoonist and an artist.

He has won nine Walkley Awards, nineteen Stanley Awards and no Archibald Prizes. Leak draws editorial cartoons for The Australian newspaper. He has published three collections: Drawing Blood (Allen & Unwin, 1998), Moments of Truth (Scribe, 2005), UnAustralian of the Year (Scribe, 2012) and one novel, Heart Cancer (ABC Books, 2005), unpulped copies of which are increasing in rarity and decreasing in
value.

Caroline Baum is a respected journalist and broadcaster who has worked for the ABC, SBS and Foxtel. The founding editor of Good Reading magazine, Caroline appears at writers festivals across Australia and overseas and writes for national magazines, newspapers and online arts websites. She is the Editorial Director at Booktopia, Australia’s biggest online bookseller.