Australia is known for diversity and multiculturism. Through comics, 33 Australian artists express their creativity and identity at the exhibition titled "Australian Comics – Promoting Culture Through Visual Story Telling", which is on view at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC). In collaboration with the Australian embassy and curator Jakub Mazerant of IllustrateYourLife, this series of retrospectives showcases the best and most original comic art from Down Under.
Young women lead the way in new wave of cartooning and comics
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The gender gap has flipped among the ranks of Australia’s young comic artists and cartoonists, skittling stereotypes and heralding a new wave of graphic artists.
New research commissioned by the Australia Council for the Arts shows more than half of artists aged between 18 and 39 are women (54 per cent) and one in five identify as non-binary or transgender (19 per cent).
Female cartoonists Lizzie Nagy and Claudia Chinyere Akole have broken through in a traditionally male-dominated medium.
Credit:James Brickwood
Men account for 27 per cent of this young talent pool, compared to 85 per cent of all male cartoonists and illustrators over the age of 60.
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