For the cricketer and footballer, see Bill Leak (sportsman).
Bill Leak
Leak in August 2011
Born
Desmond Robert Leak
(1956-01-09)9 January 1956
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Died
10 March 2017(2017-03-10) (aged 61)
Gosford, New South Wales, Australia
Known for
Illustrations
paintings
Partner
Lo Mong Lau (unknown–2017; his death)
Children
Johannes Leak • Jasper Leak
Desmond Robert "Bill" Leak (9 January 1956 – 10 March 2017) was an Australian editorial cartoonist, caricaturist and portraitist.
Raised in Condobolin and Beacon Hill, Sydney, Leak attended Julian Ashton Art School during the 1970s. His cartoons were first published in 1983 in The Bulletin and after he drew for The Sydney Morning Herald until 1994, when he was recruited by News Limited to contribute to The Daily Telegraph-Mirror and later to The Australian. As an artist and illustrator, Leak was acclaimed by journalist Peter FitzSimons as "colossally talented, driven, and passionate for his craft".[1]
Leak entered paintings into the Archibald on several occasions, having won the People's Choice Award in 1994 for his portrait of Malcolm Turnbull and the Packing Room Prize twice, in 1997 and 2000 for his portraits of Tex Perkins and Sir Les Patterson respectively. Leak's novel Heart Cancer was published in 2005 and in 2008 ABC TV aired his six-part series Face Painting.
Leak's editorial cartoons for The Australian were at the centre of several controversies. Works that received considerable media coverage include a 2006 cartoon drawn during the West Papuan refugee dispute, a series of cartoons in 2007 that featured Kevin Rudd as Tintin, a 2015 cartoon depicting starving Indian people attempting to eat solar panels, and two cartoons in 2016, one an illustration of a neglectful Aboriginal father and another that depicted same-sex marriage campaigners wearing rainbow-coloured Nazi uniforms.
^FitzSimons, Peter (11 March 2017). "Is this the 'sophisticated' One Nation we see in WA? I don't think so". The Age. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
Desmond Robert "Bill" Leak (9 January 1956 – 10 March 2017) was an Australian editorial cartoonist, caricaturist and portraitist. Raised in Condobolin...
published in The Australian newspaper in 2016. The cartoon was created by BillLeak, a cartoonist already familiar to controversy. The cartoon was reported...
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released many solo records. In 1997, a portrait of Tex Perkins by artist BillLeak won the Packing Room award at the Archibald Prize. Perkins started his...
from the original on 15 April 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-25. BillLeak (2007-03-26). "BillLeak: The truth about Tintin's mysterious journey to Canberra"...
Retrieved 21 January 2009. "tag: billleak: p. 10". Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 31 May 2010. "RIP BillLeak… You Boring Racist Who Ran...
Percy Knight, Former NSWRL Player for Balmain Tigers and Canberra Raiders BillLeak, cartoonist Eris O'Brien, archbishop Shannon Noll, singer Australian Bureau...
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she won the Archibald Prize People's Choice award with a portrait of BillLeak (artist and cartoonist for the Australian Newspaper). The National Portrait...
Devine, Matt Price, Christopher Pearson, Niki Savva. Political cartoonist BillLeak worked for the paper until his death. Stuart Rintoul (active from around...
Canberra (2001). In 2000, a portrait of Humphries as Patterson by painter BillLeak won the Packing Room Prize at the Archibald Prize. In 2014, Tim Storrier's...
The Herald and The Sun were united in 1990. In 1999 Knight, alongside BillLeak and other male political cartoonists, were criticised by the Labor Party's...
2000 Esther won the Archibald People's Choice Award with her painting of BillLeak. Her works can be found in the collections of the National Library of...
political cartoonist BillLeak. Moulinsart threatened legal action and demanded payment for past sales of the Rudd-Tintin likeness. Leak refused to give undertakings...
transitioned into a part-time role at Microsoft and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the private charitable foundation he and his...
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cartoon acquisitions from artists around Australia including Alan Moir, BillLeak, Cathy Wilcox, Geoff Pryor, John Spooner and Mark Knight (December 2007...
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