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The Political Cartoon Gallery is open 9.30am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday and 11.30am
to 5.30pm on Saturday.
Phone 0207 580 1114 for further details.
23 April – 14 June 2008
Sir David Low (1891 – 1963)
is considered the greatest political cartoonist of the Twentieth Century. This exhibition includes over
60 original cartoons from his time at the Sydney Bulletin before the First World War through to the Evening
Standard and finally The Guardian. None of the cartoons on show have been exhibited before and include
a number that were censored before and during the Second World War. Many of the originals on show include
Low’s most famous creations Colonel Blimp and the TUC Carthorse. The exhibition will also coincide
with the launch of a book entitled Low and the Dictators which features the almost private war Low fought
against Hitler and Mussolini in the pages of the Evening Standard from the 1920s until the end of the
Second World War.
18 June to 18 October 2008
From the fag-end of the Major years to New Labour’s smoking ban and beyond, this is a king-size
pack of unfiltered satire from the political cartoonists of The Independent; Dave Brown, Peter Schrank
and Tim Sanders. Clinton’s cigar, George Dubya striking a light under the Middle East, Blair’s
pants on fire, the damp matchbox of Gordon’s premiership and an ashtray of other smouldering issues
are the butts of their humour.
Drawing on the best of over 12 years of material, this exhibition of original
cartoons (many of which are for sale) blows smoke in the face of our political masters, but will have
you spluttering with mirth. Perhaps it should come with a government warning…
LAUGHING CAN SERIOUSLY
IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH!
21 October 2008 to 17 January 2009
This exhibition of original cartoons by leading political cartoonists, from Sir John Tenniel, Sir
Francis Carruthers Gould, E T Reed, Harry Furness through Low, Strube, Butterworth and Illingworth to
Steve Bell, Peter Brookes, Dave Brown, Nick Garland and Morten Morland plus many more, charts in a satirical
fashion the fortunes of the Conservative Party. From Walpole to Cameron with the likes of Baldwin, Churchill,
Thatcher and John Major in between, this exhibition will appeal to anyone with an interest in modern
British politics. A fully illustrated hardback book by Alan Mumford will also be available at the Exhibition.
21 January
to 14 March 2009
Britain’s leading political cartoonists give their take on the Prime Minister,
Gordon Brown.
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On Wednesday 6 December 2007, the Political Cartoon of the Year Awards was held at the Guardian Newsroom
for the first time. For the Cartoonist of the Year Award the jury chose Steve Bell, whose work, in their
opinion, hascontinued to push boundaries and to impress with its wide and adventurous range of imagery
and subject matter; a cartoonist who has maintained his inspired, and often surreal, comic inventiveness
and vision of society, creating images which have become part of the currency of the British cartoon.
Martin Rowson’s cartoon of Tony Blair was voted Cartoon of the Year. The runner-up spot was claimed
by The Times’ Morten Morland. Kenneth Clarke MP, who presented the awards, didn’t fail to
notice that literally all the cartoons on display were “at the expense of my political opponents”.
He joked, in reference to the Prime Minister’s perceived dour nature, that somehow he couldn’t
see “Gordon acquiring any of them”. |
| "And the winner is... " |
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| Martin Rowson - Cartoon of the Year |
From left to right, Martin Rowson with the Gillray Goblet, Morten Morland with the Tenniel Tankard
and Steve Bell with the Low Trophy.
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