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Scottish Cartoon Art Studio, with Culture & Sport Glasgow and Glasgow Museums, present
Fizzers: Well Kent Scottish Faces
People’s Palace, Glasgow 18th July – 28th September 2009
2009 is the tenth anniversary of the Scottish Cartoon Art Studio. Together with Culture & Sport Glasgow & Glasgow Museums, we are proud to present our next major exhibition in our home city. Fizzers: Well Kent Scottish Faces will be hosted at the People’s Palace & Winter Gardens, the much-loved museum dedicated to Glasgow’s social history. Curator Fiona Hayes and her staff have selected the cream of the Fizzers collection, including a dozen new caricatures never before seen anywhere!
The show features hilarious cartoon portraits of Scottish personalities past and present from the worlds of sport, politics, film, television and more besides. There will be something to amuse visitors of all ages at the exhibition, which will be supported by a substantial programme of talks, workshops and other events. Together with
Art at Your Fingertips we will be exhibiting a number of caricatures specially crafted for enjoyment by the visually impaired. And local young people will be exhibiting their work in the Mini-Fizzers exhibition, to run concurrently with our own during our later months at the Palace.
Fizzers: Well Kent Scottish Faces will be a unique, surprising and light-hearted attraction for residents and visitors to Glasgow this summer. Visit glasgowmuseums.com for the latest information.
Fizzers is ® and © Scottish Cartoon Art Studio
Read the exhibition launch coverage in Glasgow's Evening Times.
Watch Studio Co-ordinator Terry Anderson’s appearance on STV's The Hour.
The whole Fizzers team will be offering free caricatures to visitors at this year's Glasgow Show. Come and find them in the Culture Zone, right next to the People's Palace, on Saturday the 1st and Sunday the 2nd of August. As ever, demand will be high, so come early!
Photos above are of the Scottish Cartoon Art Studio’s exhibition at the Platform space in Easterhouse earlier this year. The Platform show featured an entirely different set of caricatures, so visitors can rest assured they won’t be short-changed at the People’s Palace! Photos of Fizzers: Well Kent Scottish Faces to come after launch date.
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"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".
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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
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