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Judy Horacek is an Australian cartoonist, illustrator and writer.  She has worked for many newspapers and a multitude of community groups, unions, small magazines and good causes and has published a number of cartoon collections.  Recently she has also begun creating children’s picture books.

Judy's work has been published widely in Australia and all over the world, and is found on fridges and toilet doors everywhere. As well as drawing pictures, she is a talented public speaker, able to give a very funny presentation on almost any topic, illustrated with cartoons.

Judy also often visits schools to talk about cartooning and/or children's books, writing and illustration. Contact her agents, jenny darling and associates, email: dbettaninATjd-associatesDOTcomDOTau

Qualifications
Bachelor of Arts (Visual), majoring in Printmedia and Drawing, Australian National University, 2005
Graduate Diploma of Museum Studies, Victoria College, 1986
Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Melbourne University,1985, majoring in Fine Arts and English Literature

Cartoon Books
Make Cakes Not War, in Australia: Scribe Publications 2006, in USA: Andrews McMeel 2007
I am woman, hear me draw, exhibition catalogue, National Museum of Australia, 2002
If the fruit fits, Hodder, 1999
Lost in Space, cartoons and writing, Allen and Unwin, 1998
Woman with Altitude, Hodder, 1997
Unrequited Love Nos. 1-100, McPhee Gribble, 1994
Life on the Edge, Spinifex Press, 1992

Children's Picture Books
These are my feet, Puffin Baby Series, 2008
The Story of Growl, Viking/Penguin, 2007
with Mem Fox, Where is the Green Sheep? Harcourt in USA, Penguin in Australia, 2004

Newspaper work
Canberra Times, Sunday supplement, August 2002 – April 2004
The Australian, Letters Page, one day per week, November 2002 - March 2004
The Australian Magazine, weekly July 97 – December 98, fortnightly January 1999 - August 2001
The Australian’s Review of Books, May 1999 - June 2001
The Age, weekly, 8 March 1995 – June 1997

Cartoon work (selected)
Books illustrated
Reading Magic, Mem Fox, Pan MacMillan 2001
The Women’s Power Handbook, Joan Kirner and Moira Rayner, Penguin 1999
Redfern Legal Centre Law Handbook, 7th edition, Redfern Legal Centre Publishing, 1999
Oxford Companion to Australian Feminism, Oxford University Press, 1998
Girls Talk, ed. Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Finch Publishing 1998
Women’s Diary 1998, Cath Tate Publications, United Kingdom, 1998
Body Jamming, ed. Jenna Mead, Random House 1997
Women’s Diary 1997, Cath Tate Publications, United Kingdom, 1998
Mary Jane – Living through anorexia and bulimia, Sancia Robinson, Random House, 1996
Women’s Diary 1996, Cath Tate Publications, United Kingdom, 1998
If you are arrested, Redfern Legal Centre Publishing, 1995
Everywoman’s Guide to getting into Politics, Office of Status of Women, 1994

Newspapers and Magazines
As above and Australian Society/Modern Times; Australian Left Review; Meanjin; Australian Book Review; Women’s Book Review; Funny Times (USA); Alternative Law Journal; Overland; Green Left Weekly; New Woman; Walkley Magazine

Solo Exhibitions
Skizzen, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, 30 March-28 April 2007
I am woman hear me draw, cartoon retrospective, National Museum of Australia, March - June 2002 then touring nationally
Not waving but singing, etchings, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Braddon, August 2001
Laughter, the Universe and Everything, cartoon retrospective, National Gallery of Victoria, March-April 1999, Monash Gallery of Art March 2000, then tour of regional galleries in Victoria and South Aust till early 2001
Reasons to be Cheerful II, etchings and linocuts, Steps Gallery, Melbourne, June-July 1999
Reasons to be Cheerful I , etchings and linocuts, Australian Girls Own Gallery, Canberra, November-December 1998
Woman with Altitude, cartoons, Australian Girls Own Gallery, Canberra, March 1997
Premenstrual in a Postmodern Age, cartoons, Australian Girls Own Gallery, Canberra, November 1995
Unrequited Love, cartoons, Steps Gallery, Melbourne, October 1994
Fringe Festival Exhibition, Brunswick Mechanics Institute, Melbourne, 1994
Life on the Edge, Australian Girls Own Gallery, December 1992
What heaven is really like, Australian Girls’ Own Gallery, Canberra, February 1992

Group exhibitions (selected)
Graduate Exhibition 2005, ANU School of Art, Canberra, November 2005
Flock, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, October 2005
Triptych, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
Bringing the House Down, political cartoons, Old Parliament House, Canberra, December 99-March 2000
Bringing the House Down, political cartoons, Old Parliament House, Canberra, December 98-March 99
Dog's Breakfast, ANCA Gallery, Canberra, October 1998
Chill Out - comic art in the dead of winter, Spiral Arm Gallery, Canberra, August 1998
Collision, aGOG, January-February 1998
Living with Art, Spiral Arm Gallery, Canberra, March-April 1997
Winter Light, aGOG, August 1996, Canberra
Hysterical Women No. 2, Women's Electoral Lobby W.A., Perth, 1996
Cartoon Show, Noarlunga Arts Centre, South Australia, June 1996
Women with Attitude, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 1995
HaHa Gallery Inaugural Exhibition, Gasworks, Albert Park 1994
Women & Gardens, Women's Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne, 1994
Black and White and Green, Perc Tucker Gallery, Townsville and regional centres, 1993-1996
Hysterical Women, Women's Electoral Lobby, Perth, 1993
Brunswick Women Artists 1993, Mechanics Institute, Brunswick 1993
Brunswick Women Artists 1992, Mechanics Institute, Brunswick 1992
No Vacancy, Collins Street Shopfront, February 1992
Making Do, Access Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1991
Out of Line - 10 feminist cartoonists, Friends of the Earth Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne, exhibitor and co-ordinator, August 1991
Adobe - a discourse on the built environment, Voices of Social Dissent Festival, Mechanics Institute, Brunswick 1991
Brunswick Women Artists 1991, Mechanics Institute, Brunswick 1991
Curbin' the Urban, exhibition of cartoons from community art/cartoon environment project, Princes Hill School Park Centre, North Carlton, 1990
Artzwick Artzwork 1, Artzwick Group Show, Brunswick Mechanics Institute, 1990
1989 National Cartoonists' Exhibition, Spoleto Fringe Festival, Roar 2 Studios, exhibitor and co-ordinator,1989
White on Black, anti-bicentennial exhibition, Northcote Town Hall, Melbourne, 1988
1988 National Cartoonists' Exhibition, Spoleto Fringe Festival, Roar 2 Studios, Fitzroy
Ms Ink, exhibition of women cartoonists, Comedy Festival event, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, 1987

Awards
Book of the Year, Early Childhood, Children's Book Council of Australia 2005 for Where is the Green Sheep? (with Mem Fox)
Finalist, Walkley Award for Best Cartoon 2002
NSW Women's Electoral Lobby's Edna Award for Humour, April 2002
Fellowship, Varuna Writers Centre, New South Wales, 2000
Honourable mention for 'An outstanding contribution to Australian culture' for the book If the fruit fits, Centre for Australian Cultural Studies National Awards, 1999
Hysterical Women 2 Award, WEL WA Women's Cartooning Exhibition, 1996Fellowship, Varuna Writers Centre, New South Wales, 1995
Hysterical Women Award, WEL WA Women's Cartooning Exhibition 1993
Fringe Festival Cartooning Award, National Cartooning Exhibition, October 1988

Greeting cards
Since 1988, Judy Horacek has produced a range of Christmas cards and general greeting cards sold in bookshops and giftshops throughout Australia. Since 2004 Horacek cards have also been available in Europe and the United Kingdom, produced there by Really Good cards.

Miscellaneous
Horacek cartoons also appear on aprons, teatowels, t-shirts and fridge magnets. She also produces limited edition prints, including a screenprint series of classic Horacek cartoons, 'Woman with Altitude' (2002) and 'Woman with a Present' (2003); 'Animal Impersonations' (2004) and 'Therapy Santa' (2005).