Exhibition of political cartoons cancelled in Britain
The UK Spectator reports that an exhibition of political cartoons in Surrey was cancelled, and all this despite the title of the show:
Is the era of political satire over? The Kingston Riverside TownSq venue seems to think so. It transpires that the Surrey events space has cancelled an exhibition of political cartoonists’ work called Licence to Offend in case, er, anyone was offended. You couldn’t make it up…What's interesting is that it included both figures from conservative and liberal standings. There's no clues so far if the Islamic religion had anything to do with this, though, but it wouldn't be shocking if none of the cartoonists had the courage to deal with a subject like that. For now, GB News reveals more clues as to why the exhibition was cancelled:
The Kingston TownSq venue has cancelled an exhibition of political cartoonists’ work called Licence to Offend in case, er, anyone was offended.
The showing featured work from celebrated newspaper cartoonists including the Spectator’s JG Fox, Morten Morland, also formerly of the Spectator, the Mail’s Mac and Pugh, and the Guardian’s Martin Rowson. The event, organised by photographer Paul Mowatt and artist Zoe Dorelli, was to display dozens of cartoons ranging across the political spectrum to the public after its private viewing on Wednesday evening in Kingston. Yet their hopes were dashed after the venue contacted the duo and ordered them to ‘take down the show immediately after our private view,’ according to Dorelli. Since then, the private viewing has been cancelled too – just hours before it was to take place this evening. She told Mr S:
I think when they saw it, they just thought it would be too offensive to the people working there, and they decided to pull the show. The cartoonists are pretty upset about being cancelled – it’s not often that they get to have actual exhibitions. They do everything under extraordinary pressure in a very short space of time. I just think it’s incredible and requires it requires a lot of respect.
Unfortunately, the venue hadn’t factored in the fact that all the cartoonists work for national newspapers. It’s very unwise to annoy a cartoonist.
It included satirical images of political figures such as Donald Trump and Sir Keir Starmer, as well as tech billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.I get the strange feeling the cartoons lampooning liberal figures were the reason for the cancellation, not the conservative ones. So what happened? Did the project ruffle the feathers of left-wing staffers in Surrey? As expected, everything's otherwise ambiguous, and we'll probably never know the exact story behind yet another unfortunate incident. And with the way things are going in the UK, who knows if another exhibition like this will ever take place again?
TownSq, the co-working space hosting the exhibition, told organisers they must remove the cartoons after the private viewing due to concerns from some of its members. As word spread about this decision, the venue opted to cancel the event entirely, citing fears about staff safety.
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