Robert Roger Ingpen AM, FRSA (born 13 October 1936) is an Australian graphic designer, illustrator, and writer. For his "lasting contribution" as a children's illustrator he received the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1986. Ingpen has created a number of public murals in Geelong, Melbourne, Canberra and the Gold Coast in Queensland. He also has designed bronze statues, which include the Poppykettle Fountain in the Geelong Steam Packet Gardens (currently dry due to drought restrictions) and the bronze doors to the Melbourne Cricket Club. His most recent work is the design and working drawings for a tapestry, which was woven by The Victorian Tapestry Workshop, to celebrate the 150 years of the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

In 1982 Ingpen designed the Dromkeen Medal for the Governors of the Courtney Oldmeadow Children's Literature Foundation. The Dromkeen is awarded annually to Australians in recognition of contributions to children's literature, and Ingpen received it himself in 1989 for his own work in the field.

In 2007 Ingpen illustrated a picture book by Liz Lofthouse called Ziba Came on a Boat, which was nominated for many Australian awards including the Australian Children's Book Council Awards and the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards.

Exhibitions

In 1999 Ingpen had a major retrospective exhibition in Taipei, which travelled to other regions of Taiwan for a two-month period. Also in 1999 an exhibition of the original artworks and book launch for Around the World in 80 Days was held in London.

In 2002 Ingpen had a solo exhibition in Bologna, Italy, and works from Shakespeare were exhibited in New York City.

  • 1980 Ditmar Australian Fiction Award for Australian Gnomes (Poppykettle, book one)

Works

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As illustrator only

  • Storm Boy (1974) by Colin Thiele
  • The Runaway Punt (1976) by Michael F. Page
  • The Australian Countrywoman's Cookbook (1977) <!-- writer? -->
  • Running the Brumbies: True Adventures of a Modern Bushman (1979) by Colin Stone
  • Lincoln's Place (1978) by Colin Thiele
  • Chadwick's Chimney (1979) by Colin Thiele
  • River Murray Mary (1979) by Colin Thiele
  • I Rhyme My Time: a Selection of Poems for Young People (1980) by David Martin
  • Turning Points in the Making of Australia (1980) by Michael Page
  • Night of the Muttonbirds (1981) by Mary Small
  • This Peculiar Colony (1981) by Ronald Rose
  • Clancy of the Overflow (1982) by Banjo Paterson
  • Churchill Island (1982) text by Graham Pizzey
  • Click Go the Shears (1986)
  • The Stolen White Elephant (1987) by Mark Twain [1882]
  • A Strange Expedition (1988) by Mark Twain [?]
  • Child's Story (1988) by Charles Dickens [1852]
  • A Christmas Tree (1988) by Charles Dickens [1850]
  • The Nargun and the Stars (1988) by Patricia Wrightson
  • Peacetimes (1989) by Katherine Scholes
  • The Great Deeds of Superheroes (1989) by Maurice Saxby
  • The Great Deeds of Heroic Women (1990) by Maurice Saxby
  • The Lands of the Bible (1992) by Philip Wilkinson and Jacqueline Dineen
  • The Magical East (1992) by Wilkinson and Michael Pollard
  • The Master Builders (1992) by Wilkinson and Pollard
  • The Mediterranean (1992) by Wilkinson and Dineen
  • Brahminy: the Story of a Boy and a Sea Eagle (c1995) by Colin Thiele
  • The Drover's Boy (1997) by Ted Egan
  • Jacob, the Boy from Nuremberg (1998) by Enjar Agertoft
  • The Poppykettle Papers (London: Pavilion, 1999) by Michael Lawrence – part of the Poppykettle series
  • Australian Gnomes (Adelaide: Rigby Opal Books, 1979)
  • The Voyage of the Poppykettle (Rigby, 1980)
  • The Unchosen Land (1981)
  • Beginnings and Endings with Lifetimes in Between (1983) by Ingpen and Bryan Mellonie; North American title, evidently Lifetimes: a Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children, <!--evidently nonfiction, maybe written by Mellonie-->
  • The Great Bullocky Race (1984) by Ingpen and Michael Fitzgerald Page
  • The Idle Bear (1986)
  • Out of This World: the Complete Book of Fantasy (1986) by Ingpen and Michael Fitzgerald Page
  • The Age of Acorns (1988)
  • The Dreamkeeper: a Letter from Robert Ingpen to His Granddaughter Alice Elizabeth (1995)
  • The Afternoon Treehouse (1996)
  • Folk Tales & Fables of Asia & Australia (1992) by Ingpen and Barbara Hayes
  • Once Upon a Place (1999)
  • A Bear Tale (2000)
  • The Rare Bear (2004)

Non-fiction writing

  • In Pastures Green: the Story of the Presbyterian Church, Sale, Gippsland, Victoria (c1954)
  • Pioneers of Wool (1972)
  • Pioneer Settlement in Australia (1973)
  • Robe: a Portrait of the Past (1975)
  • Don Dunstan's Cookbook (1976)
  • Paradise and Beyond: Tasmania (1978) by Ingpen and N.C.K. Evers
  • Australian Gnomes (1979)
  • Marking Time: Australia's Abandoned Buildings (1979)
  • Australia's Heritage Watch: an Overview of Australian Conservation (1981)
  • Aussie Battlers (1982) by Ingpen and Michael Fitzgerald Page
  • Australian Inventions and Innovations (1982) by Ingpen, Sally Carruthers, and others
  • Colonial South Australia: Its People and Buildings (1985) by Michael Fitzgerald Page
  • Worldly Dogs (1986) by Ingpen and Michael Fitzgerald Page
  • The Making of Australians (1987) by Ingpen and Michael Fitzgerald Page
  • Conservation (1987) by Ingpen and Margaret Dunkle
  • Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were: Creatures, Places, and People (1987) by Ingpen and Michael Fitzgerald Page
  • A Celebration of Customs & Rituals of the World (1994) by Ingpen and Philip Wilkinson
  • Encyclopedia of Mysterious Places: the Life and Legends of Ancient Sites Around the World (1990) by Ingpen and Wilkinson
  • In the Wake of the Mary Celeste (c. 2004) by Ingpen and Gary Crew
  • Imprints of Generations (2006)
  • The Boy from Bowral: the Story of Sir Donald Bradman (2007)
  • Looking for Clancy (National Library of Australia, 2013), featuring "Clancy of the Overflow" by A.B. Paterson [1889]

References

  • Robert Ingpen at Libraries Australia Authorities
  • Robert Ingpen at Melaleuca Gallery