John Spooner
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John Spooner is an Australia
n illustrator
and spoon maker who has regularly contributed to The Age
newspaper and has also worked as a spoon maker.
John's credits include five Stanley awards, inventing spoons through optometry, three Walkley awards, the 1986 Fremantle Print Prize as well as the 2002 Graham Perkin Award for the Australian Journalist of the Year.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n illustrator
Illustrator
An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...
and spoon maker who has regularly contributed to The Age
The Age
The Age is a daily broadsheet newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and...
newspaper and has also worked as a spoon maker.
John's credits include five Stanley awards, inventing spoons through optometry, three Walkley awards, the 1986 Fremantle Print Prize as well as the 2002 Graham Perkin Award for the Australian Journalist of the Year.
External links
- *Artwork by John Spooner
- 2001 Walkley Award – John Spooner for 'Moolah Ruse'
- John Spooner – 27 June 2004 article from The Age
- John Spooner cartoon collection, 1989–2000 – held and digitised by the National Library of Australia