- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE2788
Coopes, Jenny
- Occupation Artist, Cartoonist, Journalist
Summary
Jenny Coopes worked as a political cartoonist for the Fairfax organisation for 20 year. She has won three Walkley Awards and was highly commended on another occasion. In 2006 she was an MA student in animation at the University of Technology in Sydney.
Events
- 1980 - 1970
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1985 - 1985
Best Illustration – ‘His Honour. The Prisoner’ – The National Times Sydney
Walkley Award (Artwork) -
1986 - 1986
Best Illustration – Highly Commended – the Sun Herald
Walkley Award (Artwork) -
1989 - 1989
Best Cartoon – The Sun Herald
Walkley Award (Artwork) -
1999 - 1999
Best Cartoon – ‘Mates’ – The Sun – Herald
Walkley Award (Artwork)
Published resources
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Conference Paper
- Cartoons for the cause: Cartooning for Equality in Australia, Sawer, Marian, 2001, http://www.ejournalism.au.com/ejournalist/SAWER.PDF
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Site Exhibition
- The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html
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Resource
- Trove: Coopes, Jenny (1945-), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-566478