archived gallery shows
Weapons Drawn
6 Feb – 5 March
An exhibition of political cartoons offering a satirical slant on the history of nuclear warfare. Featuring work by some of the most significant cartoonists from the 1930s to the present day whose caricatures in newspapers and magazines have provided humorous comment on the issues of the day. Artists include Peter Brookes, Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher, Ernest H. Shephard, Ralph Steadman and Feliks Topolski.
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Artists featured:
Peter Brookes is an English cartoonist who has produced work for numerous publications, most notably The Times for which he is the leader-page cartoonist. He has won the title of Cartoonist of the Year at the British Press Awards in 2011, 2010, 2007, and 2002.
Bruno Caruso is a celebrated Italian painter and graphic illustrator who came to prominence in the aftermath of World War II. His work has continued to investigate social issues, oppression, and man’s search for meaning.
Scott Clissold is an established illustrator based in the UK. He has been the Sunday Express editorial cartoonist, drawing the national newspaper’s main political/social cartoon, since 1998.
Wally “Trog” Fawkes got his artistic break when he landed a job at the Daily Mail in 1945, aged 21. For the next 60 years, Fawkes’ produced cartoons and caricatures for a range of publications including Punch, Private Eye and The Observer.
Nicolas Garland became the Daily Telegraph’s first political cartoonist in 1966 while also contributing cartoons and covers to the New Statesman, The Spectator, and The Independent.
Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher became the first resident cartoonist in the then 145 year history of The Economist. He spent the next ten years working for other newspapers in London and then returned to the US in 1988. He still contributes cartoons weekly to The Economist.
Joseph Lee was a committed socialist who resigned from his position at Sunday Express in 1926, to protest their attitude to the General Strike. From 1934 to 1966 he worked for The Evening News, which featured his very popular ‘London Laughs’ series of joke drawings. These were the first non-political, topical cartoons in Britain.
Ben McLaughlin has a cinematic style that is reminiscent of Edward Hopper. The titles of his work are often drawn from newspapers, the radio, crossword puzzles and other equally unexpected sources, sources that tend to invoke global events.
Morten Morland is a Norwegian political cartoonist working in the United Kingdom. His work is regularly featured in The Times newspaper.
Ingram Pinn has worked for the Financial Times since 1986. He illustrates articles on the comment page every Tuesday to Friday, and contributes his own visual comment on the week every Saturday.
Chris Riddell is a British illustrator and is a political cartoonist for The Observer. He has won the Kate Greenaway Medal twice and the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize seven times.
Paul Rigby, who usually works under the name Rigby, was an award-winning Australian cartoonist who worked for newspapers in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Martin Rowson is a British cartoonist and novelist. His work frequently appears in The Guardian and The Independent. He has had a number of books published, including graphic adaptations of The Waste Land and Tristram Shandy.
Ernest H. Shephard was a celebrated English artist and book illustrator. He was known especially for his human-like animals in illustrations for The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne.
Ralph Steadman is a world renowned artist, writer, sculptor, cartoonist and designer. He has illustrated such classics as Alice in Wonderland, Treasure Island and Animal Farm. With Hunter S. Thompson he collaborated on the birth of “gonzo” journalism with his classic illustrations for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Sidney ‘George’ Strube left the army in 1918 and became the political cartoonist for The Daily Express. After 30 very successful years, he left the newspaper and then freelanced for The Sunday Times, Time and Tide and The Tatler.
Feliks Topolski studied at the Warsaw Academy of Art and became a British citizen in 1947 after making a prolific draughtsman’s record both on the home front and abroad as a war artist for both Poland and Great Britain. His work includes the Topolski Century mural under Hungerford railway bridge and a spectacular mural commission for Buckingham Palace.
Philip Zec complemented Daily Mirror editorials with a series of venomous cartoons. He was considered such an opponent during WW II that the Germans had his name on a list to be arrested immediately when they invaded Britain.