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STOP PRESS! The dates and
venue for the second major Fizzers
exhibition have been successfully negotiated. We will make a
formal announcement about it early in the New Year!
"Fizzers"
is a collection of over 200 caricatures of famous Scots, created
by all five caricaturists of the Scottish Cartoon Art Studio.
These formed the basis of both a book and a massive exhibition.
"Fizzers: the Alternative Portrait Gallery" at the Scottish
National Portrait Gallery throughout April, May and June 2006,
sponsored by Shepherd
+ Wedderburn, Solicitors. The
exhibition marked the first time contemporary Scottish
caricature had been showcased at such a high level. The show ran
in tandem with a smaller sister exhibition, "Stranger Than
Life", featuring caricatures by past masters of the art form, as
well as a political cartooning conference supported by The
Glasgow School of Art and University of Glasgow and
incorporating the first Scottish showings of the Studio's
successful "Auld Alliance" exhibition at the
Alliance Française
de Glasgow and L'Institut
Français d'Ecosse. All three
exhibitions were warmly received and proved very popular,
encouraging us to seek further exhibition venues on the West of
Scotland as well as beyond these borders. Details of the next
Fizzers exhibition will be posted here first!
"Fizzers: Famous Scottish Faces Caricatured", a book
featuring the cream of the "Fizzers" collection, is on sale now.
Published by Mercat
Press (part of Birlinn Ltd) the book
features a Foreword written by Brian Cox, the Scottish star of
stage and screen familiar from roles as diverse as the original
Hannibal Lektor in "Manhunter", the wicked General Stryker in
"X-Men2", King Agamemnon in "Troy" and as presenter of the
recent Grampian TV series, "Beyond Explanation".
NEW FIZZERS MINI-SITE
COMING SOON!
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Follow the Birlinn link above to buy the
book online. Follow the links below to read some of what the
national press, and those in the world of cartooning, have
had to say about "Fizzers":
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,585-2127631.html
http://fotolog.terra.com.br/cartunscampinas:21
(Brazilian cartoonist BIRA gives his verdict on the show!)
http://www.ccgb.org.uk/lobby/index.php?/archives/41-Fizzers-Famous-Scottish-Faces-Caricatured.html
http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/index.php?s=fizzers
We drew on a number of sources for the biographical pieces
found in Fizzers, but would like
to make special acknowledgement to the Gazetteer for Scotland.
The Gazetteer is the largest resource of its kind on the internet
and was an invaluable help in compiling the book. The Gazetteer
for Scotland can be consulted at www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz |
