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Richmond Herald, from the 1970s
I was given a weekly cartoon spot in this paper which covered Richmond, Twickenham, Barnes and Putney in southwest London. I also contributed caricatures of local politicians based on the style I had created in my film, Reel People.
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Plain Dealer (Bath), 1978
This series of cartoons for the Bath ‘counter culture’ magazine Plain Dealer
featured real people transforming into others – Gerald Ford turning into Frankenstein’s monster; Greta Garbo turning into David Bowie; Enoch Powell turning into Idi Amin; Margaret Thatcher turning into ‘Jaws’; Popeye turning into Prime Minister Jim Callaghan (ex-naval); Ronald Reagan turning into Richard Nixon.
Illustrations and sculptures for Andrew Lanyon's books and exhibitions
Von Ribbentrop in St. Ives, by Andrew Lanyon, 2010
‘When war broke out in 1939, the people of St. Ives, like people anywhere who are threatened with invasion, were forced to be imaginative…’
From 2010 to the present I have been contributing work for Andrew Lanyon’s various books and exhibitions. This was the first, a wire sculpture of Sigmund Freud psycho-analysing a naked woman on a couch (see Exhibitions on this website).
The Only Non-slip Dodo Mat in the World, by Andrew Lanyon, 2013
…in which the hero of the story, archaeologist and explorer Ambrose Fortescue, sets up home inside the statues of notable people as a way of getting closer to understanding them.
In this model, operated with both hands, Picasso is working on one of his Pink period paintings. The viewer pulls the left-hand ring-pull and a blue colour swatch flies through the letterbox, landing on the floor. Then the viewer pulls the right-hand ring-pull and Picasso turns his head to look down at the swatch. This launches him into his Blue period.
Alternative Edens, by Andrew Lanyon, illustrated by Chris James, 2015
‘A developer saw metal
Poking from below
On the knoll where once
An apple once did grow…
…That Adam was a robot
And Eve was metal too
Alters everything
There is another view’
Here’s my construction of a metal fig leaf, made of a real fig leaf and a plasticine nut – both sprayed with silver automobile paint.
‘All men come from Adam
Every female Eve
Not any come from Jennifer
Not a single male from Steve
Jennifer and Steven
Were each a prototype
For that perfect couple
The pair who get the hype
But the couple hit it off
And bred another line
Of mortals who love laughter
And never seem to whine
Eve and her Adonis
May look so fine and fair
But most of us’d prefer
To come from Jennifer’