arts and literature

[farishta]

Artist who drew cartoons of over elaborate machinery for carrying out simple or ridiculous tasks(5,8)

[phoenixxx]

Heath Robinson

[jno]

if you're in America, Rube Goldberg - but that's not quite the right number of letters, so you're probably British?

[shaneystar]

Tis indeed Heath Robinson. This is from the Telegraph GK crossword on Saturday jno.
I have advised the poster to put ALL her crossword questions in Q&Pseveral times but they appear to take no notice and post all over the place as usual.