Ask About Leunig Archives, Press, and Partnerships
Curly Flat welcomes careful inquiries about Michael Leunig’s work, public interpretation, editorial use, and cultural projects.
What to contact us about
Write when the question needs a human reading rather than a quick search.
Curly Flat exists for people trying to understand, discuss, cite, teach, publish, or present work connected with Michael Leunig. That might mean a curator checking the wording of a caption, a journalist seeking background on a recurring motif, or a reader trying to identify where a remembered drawing first appeared. A specific question helps us give a more useful answer.
For example, “I am preparing a short article on Mr Curly and need publication context for one cartoon” gives us a place to begin. “Please send everything about Leunig” does not.
Helpful note
Please include the title, date, publication, book reference, or a clear description of the work if you have it. Even a rough memory can help: a duck, a teapot, a moon, a small figure standing alone in a landscape.
Primary contact for business and editorial inquiries
Director Siobhan O’Reilly is the primary contact for general business, editorial, and permissions-related inquiries.
Use this address for publication questions, editorial correspondence, licensing approaches, and general business matters.
What to include
Name the project, deadline, intended audience, territory, format, and the work or works involved. If the inquiry concerns republication, describe whether the use is print, digital, exhibition, broadcast, educational, or performance-related.
Clear context saves several rounds of correspondence. It also respects the work itself, since a cartoon in a newspaper column, a poem in a book, and an image on a stage backdrop each carries a different practical setting.
Press and media requests
What makes a press inquiry answerable?
Usually it comes down to scope. A request for comment on a current controversy may need a different response from a request for archival background on a drawing first published decades ago. A radio producer might need a short biographical note by Tuesday morning; a feature writer may need to confirm the publication history of an image before filing a long piece.
Send media requests to [email protected] with “Press request” in the subject line. Include the outlet, deadline, interview format if relevant, and whether the request concerns new commentary, archival context, image use, or fact-checking.
Curly Flat cannot always supply a full critical history on short notice, but a precise request has a much better chance of reaching the right answer.
Partnerships, education, and cultural projects
A thoughtful partnership proposal starts with the audience.
Consider a secondary school planning a unit on Australian visual satire. The useful first email would not begin with a grand claim about national culture. It would say which year level, which works, how students will encounter the material, and whether the project needs permission for classroom reproduction, a public display, or an online resource.
That same principle applies to galleries, libraries, festivals, theatres, publishers, universities, and community groups. Tell us what people will see, read, hear, or make. Then explain the setting: one evening event, a semester course, a touring exhibition, a digital archive, a performance adaptation, or a printed program.
Projects connected with Cartoons & Visual Works, Poems & Reflections, Interviews & Press, or Adaptations & Performances often need different kinds of review. A small classroom packet and a ticketed public production should not be treated as the same request.
Scope, rights, and response expectations
Curly Flat can help direct serious inquiries, clarify context where possible, and consider requests connected with use, interpretation, publication, and collaboration.
Rights questions need particular care. Please do not assume that finding an image online means it is available for republication, alteration, merchandising, performance, or upload to a public platform. Describe the exact use you have in mind before commissioning design, printing material, or announcing a program.
Editorial use
Include publication name, format, circulation or audience description if known, deadline, and the image or text requested.
Cultural use
Describe the institution or group, public access, dates, location, and whether admission, ticketing, or sponsorship applies.
Research use
Set out the research question, intended publication or presentation, and any images, quotations, or archival details you hope to cite.
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