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{{Short description|Australian graphic designer and illustrator (born 1936)}}
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 | period      = 1958–present; children's books from mid-1970s
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'''Robert Roger Ingpen''' [[Order of Australia|AM]], [[Royal Society of Arts|FRSA]] (born  13 October 1936)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ingpen, Robert, 1936– |url=https://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/search/display?dbid=auth&id=000035255939 |access-date=2024-02-16 |website=Libraries Australia}}</ref> is an [[Australians|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.<ref name=andersen/><ref name=ibby-ingpen/>

==Early life==
Ingpen was born in [[Geelong]], Victoria, and attended [[The Geelong College#Notable alumni|Geelong College]] to 1957. He graduated with a Diploma of Graphic Art from [[List of RMIT University people|RMIT]] in 1958, where he studied with [[Harold Freedman]].<ref name = nla/>

==Career==
In 1958, Ingpen was appointed by the [[Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation]] (CSIRO) as an artist to interpret and communicate the results of scientific research. From 1968 Ingpen worked as a freelance designer, illustrator and author. He was also a member of a [[United Nations]] team in [[Mexico]] and [[Peru]] until 1975, where he designed pamphlets on fisheries and was involved in "a number of Australian conservation and environmental projects".<ref name = nla/> He left the CSIRO to work full-time as a freelance writer in 1968.<ref name = nla/> Ingpen's interest in conservation issues continued, and he was one of the founding members of the [[Australian Conservation Foundation]].<ref name = nla/>

===Work===
[[File:Flag of the Northern Territory.svg|thumb|right|Flag of the Northern Territory as designed by Ingpen.]]

Ingpen has written or illustrated more than 100 published books. These include children's picture books and fictional stories for all ages. His nonfiction books mostly relate to history, conservation, environment and health issues. His most frequent collaborator has been the author and editor Michael Page.

Ingpen has designed many [[postage stamps]] for Australia, as well as the [[Flag of the Northern Territory|flag and coat of arms for the Northern Territory]].<ref name = nla/><ref name= flag>{{cite web |title= Northern Territory |publisher= Ausflag |url= http://www.ausflag.com.au/flags/nt.html |accessdate= 29 March 2008 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080223141916/http://www.ausflag.com.au/flags/nt.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 23 February 2008}}</ref>  Ingpen has created a number of public murals in [[Geelong]], [[Melbourne]], [[Canberra]] and the [[Gold Coast, Queensland|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]].{{cn|date=May 2023}}

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.<ref name=dromkeen/>

Ingpen was illustrator for the centenary editions of [[J.M. Barrie]]'s ''[[Peter Pan and Wendy]]'' and [[Kenneth Grahame]]'s ''[[The Wind in the Willows]]'' for which he bases characterisations on contemporary figures and personalities.<ref>Margaret Throsby interview with Robert Ingpen, broadcast on (Australian) ABC Radio National. Retrieved 31 October 2008.</ref>

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 Eighty Days|Around the World in 80 Days]]'' was held in London.<ref name=melaleuca>[http://www.melaleuca.com.au/ingpen/ Melaleuca Galleries - Robert Ingpen]</ref>

In 2002 Ingpen had a solo exhibition in [[Bologna]], Italy, and works from [[Shakespeare]] were exhibited in New York City.<ref name=melaleuca/>

In 2002 Ingpen's work featured in the inaugural exhibition at the [[Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art]], [[Massachusetts]], and he donated to the Museum the illustrations for Charise Neugebauer's ''Halloween Circus at the Graveyard Lawn'' (2003).

==Awards==
The biennial [[Hans Christian Andersen Award]] conferred by the [[International Board on Books for Young People]] is the highest recognition available to a writer or illustrator of children's books. Ingpen won the illustration award in 1986.<ref name=andersen/><ref name=ibby-ingpen/> [[Patricia Wrightson]] won the writing award that year, and they remain the only Australians among more than 60 Andersen Medal recipients.<ref name=andersen/><!--64 thru 2012--> Ingpen had illustrated Wrightson's most highly regarded work, ''[[The Nargun and the Stars]]'' (1973), a children's fantasy rooted in [[Australian Aboriginal mythology]].

He received the Australian [[Dromkeen Medal]] in 1989.<ref name=dromkeen/> In 2005 he was made honorary doctor of arts by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology{{cn|date=August 2022}} and in 2007 made a member of the [[Order of Australia]] for "service to literature as an illustrator and author of children's books, to art design and education, and as a supporter of health care organisations."<ref name=order/>

Awards for particular works:
* Visual Arts Board award for children's book illustration for ''Storm Boy''
* 1980 ''River Murray Mary'' was commended in the Children's Book of the Year awards<ref name=Children>{{cite web|title=The Children's Book of the Year Awards: Winners and Commended Books 1980–1989 |publisher=Children's Book Council of Australia |url=http://cbc.org.au/8089.htm |accessdate=29 March 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080327114943/http://www.cbc.org.au/8089.htm |archivedate=27 March 2008 }}</ref>
* 1980 [[Ditmar Award results#1980: Swancon 5, Perth|Ditmar Australian Fiction Award]] for ''Australian Gnomes'' ([[#ppktl|Poppykettle]], book one)

==Works==
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===As illustrator only===
* ''[[Storm Boy (novel)|Storm Boy]]'' (1974) by [[Colin Thiele]]
* ''The Runaway Punt'' (1976) by [[Michael Fitzgerald Page|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 (poet)|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 (author)|Philip Wilkinson]] and [[Jacqueline Dineen]]
* ''The Magical East'' (1992) by Wilkinson and [[Michael Pollard (author)|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 (writer)|Michael Lawrence]] – part of the [[Robert Ingpen#ppktl|Poppykettle series]]<ref name=ppktl/>
* ''Who is the World For?'' (2000) by [[Tom Pow]]
* ''Shakespeare: His Work and His World'' (Walker, 2001) by [[Michael Rosen]]; {{OCLC|861921127}}
* ''Halloween Circus'' (NY: North–South, 2002) by [[Charise Neugebauer]] – a Michael Neugebauer Book {{OCLC|223257923}}
* ''The Tapestry Story: Celebrating 150 Years of the Melbourne Cricket Ground'' (2003) by [[Keith Dunstan]]
* ''The Wizard's Book of Spells'' (2003) by [[Beatrice Phillpotts]]
* ''The Magic Crystal'' (ca. 2003) by [[Brigitte Weninger]]
* ''Dickens: His Work and His World'' (Walker, 2005) by [[Michael Rosen]]; {{OCLC|60741089}}
* ''Mustara'' (2007) by [[Rosanne Hawke]]
* ''Ziba Came on a Boat'' (2008) by [[Liz Lofthouse]]

;Children's Classics<ref name=palazzo/>
* ''Around the World in Eighty Days'' (2000) by [[Jules Verne]] [1873 in French]<ref name=austlit/> <!--Palazzo lists this work, publ date 2011 (below), and calls Peter Pan "first of a series"-->
* ''Peter Pan and Wendy'' ({{‡}} 2004) by [[J. M. Barrie]] [1911], centenary edition
* ''Treasure Island'' ({{‡}} 2005) by [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] [1883]
* ''The Ugly Duckling'' (Walker, 2005) by [[Hans Christian Andersen]] [1843 in Danish]<ref name=austlit/>
* ''The Jungle Book'' ({{‡}} 2006) by [[Rudyard Kipling]] [1894]
* ''The Wind in the Willows'' ({{‡}} 2007?) by [[Kenneth Grahame]] [1908],  centenary edition
* ''A Christmas Carol and "A Christmas Tree"'' ({{‡}} 2008) by [[Charles Dickens]] [1843 and 1850]
* ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' ({{‡}} 2009) by [[Lewis Carroll]] [1865]
* ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' ({{‡}} 2010) by [[Mark Twain]] [1876] – "for the centenary of Twain's death in April 1910"<ref name=palazzo/>
* ''The Night Before Christmas'' ({{‡}} 2010) by [[Clement C. Moore]] ["[[A Visit from St. Nicholas]]", 1823]
* ''The Secret Garden'' ({{‡}} 2010) by [[Frances Hodgson Burnett]] [1911] – centenary edition
* ''Around the World in Eighty Days'' ({{‡}} 2011) by [[Jules Verne]] [1873 in French]<ref name=palazzo/><!--translation not identified-->
* ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' ({{‡}} 2011) by [[L. Frank Baum]] [1900]
* ''The Owl and the Pussycat and Other Nonsense'' ({{‡}} 2012) by [[Edward Lear]] (1812–1888) – Lear bicentenary edition 
* ''Just So Stories'' (2013) by [[Rudyard Kipling]] [1902]<ref name=walker/>
* ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' (2014) by [[Carlo Collodi]] [1883 in Italian]<ref name=walker/>

{{‡}} 12 works named by Palazzo Editions in two pages on Ingpen. ''The Night Before Christmas'' and ''The Owl and the Pussycat'' differ in format, larger and much shorter than the "Palazzo Children's Classics" series (192 to 240pp, 235 x 195mm).<ref name=palazzo/>

===Fiction writing===
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* Poppykettle series<ref name=ppktl>[http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C457239 "The Poppykettle Series"]. AUSTLIT (austlit.edu.au). Retrieved 18 July 2014.</ref>
** ''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'', {{OCLC|17509505}} <!--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]<ref>[http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/188219997 National Library of Australia - ''Looking for Clancy'' by Robert Ingpen]</ref>

==References==
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<ref name=nla>
{{cite web |title = MS 9141 Papers of Robert Ingpen: Biographical Note |publisher= National Library of Australia |url= http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms9141 |accessdate= 29 March 2008}}</ref>
<ref name=austlit>
[http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A-!J "Robert Ingpen"]. AUSTLIT (austlit.edu.au). Retrieved 18 July 2014.</ref>
<ref name=palazzo>
[http://palazzo.extra-strong.co.uk/news/article/Robert-Ingpen-and-the-Childrens-Classics-series "Robert Ingpen and the Children's Classics series"]. News. 28 July 2011.<br>
· [http://palazzo.extra-strong.co.uk/authors/profile/robert-ingpen "Robert Ingpen"]. Authors. "Taken from RMIT University Alumni Hall of Fame"; evidently augmented by Palazzo's list of Children's Classics to 2012 and selected links.<br>
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Palazzo Editions (palazzo.extra-strong.co.uk). Retrieved 28 July 2014.</ref>
<ref name=walker>
About the author. [http://www.walkerbooks.com.au/Books/The-Adventures-Of-Pinocchio-9781922244048 "The Adventures of Pinocchio"] (product display). Walker Books Australia and New Zealand. Retrieved 18 July 2014.</ref>

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<ref name=andersen>
[http://www.ibby.org/index.php?id=273 "Hans Christian Andersen Awards"]. [[International Board on Books for Young People]] (IBBY). Retrieved 29 July 2013.</ref>
<ref name=ibby-ingpen><!-- full-page profile not used as a source 2013-07-29 -->
[http://www.literature.at/viewer.alo?objid=14769&viewmode=fullscreen&scale=3.33&rotate=&page=72 "Robert Ingpen"] (pp. 76–77, by Eva Glistrup).
''The Hans Christian Andersen Awards, 1956–2002''. IBBY. [[Gyldendal]]. 2002. Hosted by [[Austrian Literature Online]] (literature.at). Retrieved 29 July 2013.</ref>
<ref name=dromkeen>
{{cite web |title= Dromkeen Medal: Previous Recipients of the Dromkeen Medal |publisher= Scholastic Australia |url= http://www.scholastic.com.au/common/dromkeen/medal.asp |accessdate= 29 March 2008}}</ref>
<ref name=order>
{{cite web |title= It's an Honour |publisher= Australian Government |url= https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1133779 |accessdate= 29 March 2008 |url-status= live |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20210305223534/https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1133779 |archivedate= 5 March 2021 |df= dmy-all }}</ref>

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==External links==
{{Portal|Children's literature |Australia |Visual arts }}
*{{Cite news |last= Atkinson |first= Frances |title= Book Reviews: Ingpen and paper |newspaper= The Age |date= 9 October 2005 |url= http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/ingpen-and-paper/2005/10/08/1128563036413.html }}
* [http://nla.gov.au/anbd.aut-an000035255939 Robert Ingpen] at Libraries Australia Authorities
* {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090914074747/https://www.alumni.rmit.edu.au/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=444 |date=14 September 2009 |title=Robert Ingpen at RMIT University Alumni (May 2002 with updates to January 2007) }}
* [http://www.melaleuca.com.au/ingpen Robert Ingpen] at Melaleuca Gallery
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* {{LCAuth|n50027146|Robert Ingpen|80|ue}}

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