Desert island cartoon exhibition

Glenn Marshall writes:

Over the next few weeks Pete Songi transports us to a desert island with his fourth cartoon exhibition, held at the wonderful Duke of Greenwich pub and doesn’t living on a desert island, cut off from what’s going on in the world, seem an appealing prospect at the moment (naturally you’d need a pen, paper and some empty bottles so you could still do a few social media posts).

Cartoons piled up ahead of the hang

What is astounding about this exhibition is, with a theme that is such a cartoon cliche there were no complete duplicate ideas – I bet ChatGPT couldn’t manage that!

Cartoonists Dave Simmonds, Ryan Fairbanks, Jess Judge, Martin Rowson and Pete Songi on launch night.

Dimtra Rizou with one of her cartoons

On the walls are works by Steve ‘Brighty’ Bright, Ben Chilton, Kipper Williams, Steve Lillie, The Radical Emroiderer, Jess Judge, Chris Burke, Nick Newman, Clive Goddard, Theresa Henry Smith, Royston Roberston, Dimtra Rizou, David Gomberg, Viktor Knoury, Guy Venables, Roger Penwill, Pete Songi, Mike Stokoe, Ed Garcia, Dean Patterson, Tom Johnson, Jonathan Pugh, Jeremy Banx, Chris ‘Dink’ Williams, Ed Naylor, Fergus Boylan, Marshall Very Funny, Grant Meikle, Joe Dator, Mark ‘Chicane’ Winter, Martin Rowson, Ryan Fairbanks, Pete Dredge, Achaz von Harenberg, Stephen Dean, Des Buckley & The Surreal McCoy to name but a heap. There are many more too – 66 cartoonists and 96 cartoons on display!

The show runs from July 3rd – Aug 31st

The Duke of Greenwich

91 Colomb Street,

Greenwich,

London,

SE10 9EZ

Check the pub website for the Greenwich mean opening times.

For those who can’t get to the show here’s a smattering of desert island treasures.