Lionel Portier
Illustrator, Cartoonist & Graphic Designer (Sydney, NSW)

Lionel was born in Lyons, France in 1965. He lived there until aged 18 and moved abroad, studying art in Brussels (ENSAVC) for 5 years, and after graduating went to work in Hong Kong as a freelance illustrator and designer. Travels led him then to South America, Paris and Sydney where he now resides. His interest in maps is a refection of his travelling soul.

His conceptual black and white drawings tell of the misery and humourous contradictions of the human kind. He created a series of designs for Mambo T-Shirts between 1999 and 2000, and is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines including Le Monde (France), The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian Financial Review, The Sun Herald, The Age, Boss and The Financial Review Magazine.

Publications that have also featured his cartoons include Time Magazine, The Bulletin, BRW, HQ, Marie Claire, Australian Geographic, MIS, Geo, Le Nouvel Observateur, Telerama, Asia Inc., Business Online, The Asian Wall Street Journal, Together and Splatter Magazine.

Lionel spends his time between freelance illustration commissions and lecturing graphic design & illustration at Billy Blue School of Graphic Arts in Sydney.

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