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(Oslo is represented by the Jacky Winter Group, where you can find an extended portfolio.)

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About:

Oslo Davis was born in Brooklyn, Tasmania. He is now an illustrator and cartoonist living in Melbourne, Australia.

In 2011 Oslo was a Walkley Award finalist in the cartoon category.

Oslo has drawn for the following publications and websites:

New York Times / Meanjin / The Age / The Sunday Age / Readings Monthly / BusinessWeek / The Big Issue / Sleepers Almanac / Tango / Going Down Swinging / Desktop Magazine / Australian Book Review / Torpedo / Wheeler Centre's website

Oslo Davis draws gag cartoons for the Age, and a book collecting his Sunday Age Overheard cartoons is out now through Arcade Publications.

In 2010 Oslo Davis completed a Creative Fellowship residency at the State Library of Victoria where he worked on a collection illustrations for Libraryland, a book of drawings.

For the 2011 Melbourne Writers Festival Oslo edited and produced a newspaper of cartoons called Drawn From Life, which was distributed for free across Melbourne's train network one morning in August 2011. Oslo also completed a number of drawings for the Golden Plains music festival, and for the Melbourne Immigration Museum.

Oslo also occasionally writes articles and reviews for ThreeThousand.com.au, and has written for The Age.

Press:

Stuart Geddes' review of Drawn From Life, on ThreeThousand.com.au.

John Bailey's write-up about Drawn From Life, and comics generally, in The Sunday Age's M magazine.

Arts Victoria's video about the Drawn From Life project.

Interview about Drawn From Life, on The Ember.

Interview, and studio photos, with Lucy Feagins on The Design Files.

Interview with Mel Campbell on The Enthusiast.

Interview with James Valentine on 702 ABC Sydney (audio).

Interview about Overheard on ThreeThousand.com.au.

Jo Case's review of Overheard on the Readings bookshop website.

Andrew Stephen's article on Oslo Davis, 'The first hanging of a serial sketcher,' in The Age.

Interview about the exhibition 'This Annoying Life' on ThreeThousand.com.au.

Interview with Oslo Davis on Meanjin's Spike blog.

Dan Rule's article 'Oslo's Angst,' on Broadsheet.com.au.

Stuart Geddes' review of Three Books.

Penny Modra's review of Conceived on a Tram.