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Behind the Lines

Peter Nicholson

Peter Nicholson has worked for Nation Review, the Australian Financial Review, The Age (for 18 years) and The Australian (until 2016). He also produced weekly animated political cartoons for The Australian Online. From 1984 to 1991 he created the Rubbery Figures puppets and for five years produced the Rubbery Figures programs in his Melbourne film studio for Fast Forward. He sculpted six of the portrait busts on the Prime Ministers Avenue in Ballarat and has won five Walkley Awards.

Works also displayed at Behind the Lines 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2015.

Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott and Christine Milne are on a beach standing behind a line in the sand. In the water are dead bodies and a capsized boat. Text reads, 'The line in the sand'.

The Line in the Sand

Peter Nicholson, The Australian,

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