Eric Löbbecke has exhibited fine art painting since 2008 alongside his professional cartooning/illustration career, drawing for THE AUSTRALIAN newspaper since 1988. Finalist in the Waverley Art Prize and the Dobell Drawing Prize in 2008, 4 times Walkley Award recipient, ACA Cartoonist of the Year 1993, and First Prize in the Amnesty International Australian Media Awards. In 2019, after completing two Masters of Fine Art degrees at UNSW Art & Design, one in coursework, followed by a research grant, he attended the Cartooning Global conference in Paris, presenting ‘WORK IN PROGRESS’, a new working model for cartoonists. He also spoke on (Disrupting Traditional Cartooning in the Digital Age) at the 26th AHSN Annual Conference at Griffith University, 2020. In 2023, he presented his ‘Listening Devices’ body of work at Sydney University, which preceded ‘Overwhelming’, a second solo exhibition at Stella Downer Fine Art in April.

Eric’s art practice continues his research on new technology as an adaptive tool for painters to create paintings utilising the traditional analogue methodologies, to digitally create through a process of
sculpture, digital painting transferred onto canvas, enhanced by a final application of oil painting.

He is currently represented by Stella Downer Fine Art.