John Spooner

This article is about the Australian illustrator. For the U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, see John Coit Spooner.

John Spooner B.Jurist LLB (Monash) (born 1946) is an Australian journalist and illustrator who has regularly contributed to The Age newspaper.

John Spooner was born in Melbourne in 1946. He practised as a lawyer for three years before he commenced drawing for The Age newspaper in 1974, finally leaving the Law altogether in 1977 to commerce drawing full time for the newspaper.

Spooner has received various awards for excellence in Journalism. Between 1985 and 1986 Spooner was awarded five Stanley Awards, including the Black and White Artist of the Year gold Stanley Award. In 1994 Spooner was awarded two Walkley Awards for Best Illustration and Best Cartoon. Spooner’s works are represented in the Collections of The National Gallery of Australia, National Library of Canberra, The National Gallery of Victoria, The Victorian State Library Art, The Melbourne Cricket Club Museum, public and private collections throughout Australia and internationally.

His publications include the book 'A Spooner in the Works', published in 1999 by Text Publishing, comprising cartoons, prints and paintings; and Taxing Air: Facts and Fallacies about Climate Change, which he co-authored with Prof. Robert Carter, William Kininmonth, Martin Feil, Prof. Stewart W. Franks and Bryan Leyland; published by Kelpie Press in 2013. John's credits include five Stanley awards, 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