Michael Leunig 'In spite of everything...' mixed media

Michael Leunig 'In spite of everything...' mixed mediaMichael Leunig was an iconic Australian cartoonist, writer, painter, philosopher and poet, best known for his cartoons published in the Sydney Morning Herald and Age newspapers over 55 years. Spanning the political, cultural and philosophical, his visual world was one of whimsy, wit and a deep humanity. 'In spite of everything' is an original drawing for a cartoon. The print presents a visual juxtaposition between the seemingly comfortable inner world

accession number: DA47

a burst of colour and form erupts from the white page

'Rapids above St Johns Falls'

behind which sits a vase of flowers

foreboding the fates of those emphatically interested for shallow reasons

'Three Butterflies' 1998

In the early 1990s

Botticelli’s Venus emerges once more from the sea

an original gouache on paper

Edition of 24

Picturing a swallow saving her young

He conceived of his schoolgirl series while living in Hawthorn watching the migration of pupils