Jim Anderson
Bio
Jim Anderson (b. 1937) is an artist, editor and novelist. Born in England, his family moved to Australia when he was one year old. He spent his childhood on farms in the Orange and Cowra districts and then travelled to Sydney, where he studied law. After graduating from the University of Sydney he went to London where he joined Richard Neville and Felix Dennis as a co-editor of Oz magazine in 1969. In 1971, the three were jailed for publishing ‘obscene material’ – convictions that were quashed six months later. After Oz folded in 1973, Anderson travelled in Africa and the USA, eventually settling in Bolinas in northern California. His first novel, Billarooby, was published in 1988 and reissued in 2016. Since returning to Australia in 1993, Anderson has continued his career as a writer and photographer within the gay community. In 2011 Tin Sheds Gallery mounted a retrospective of his work called Lampoon: An Art Historical Trajectory 1970 – 2017, which featured magazine covers, posters, photographs and satirical collages. The show subsequently toured to Maitland Regional Art Gallery.