Friday 29th of March 2024

a turducken of bin fires...

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In a year where Australians sought consolation in statistical models and predictions, one thing became clear: you just can't predict the future.

And that's exactly what's on display at this year's Behind the Lines political cartoon exhibition.

The annual exhibition offers up a satirical summary of the year that was in politics with 126 different artworks from more than 40 cartoonists.

 

This year the theme of the exhibition is "prophecy and chance" — tapping into the idea that no one could have expected the year to unfold as it did.

The exhibition is on show at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House in Canberra and museum director Daryl Karp said the curators "drew inspiration" — quite literally — from the "obsession" we developed in 2021 with forecasts and predictions.

Ms Karp said she hoped the exhibition would provide some light relief after what was "another crazy year".

 

"One of the things we set out … to say was: how do we have a sense of joy?"

"How do we remind people that this is a fabulously safe country, we're doing well, the sun is still shining?

"Really we wanted that sense that we're getting through it, there is hope at the end of it all. And that was the one thing that we really tried quite hard to do."

Freelance cartoonist draws top honour 

 

This year's Political Cartoonist of the Year is Glen Le Lievre, a freelance and crowd-sourced artist who was unanimously voted as the winner by the panel of judges.

And, when asked about how he would describe 2021, he did not shy away from expressing his views.

"It's like a turducken of bin fires," he said.

"It's like a bin fire, inside a bin fire, inside a bin fire. And then garbage and a flaming bag of poo inside the successive three bin fires."

He said he believed people were looking forward to the future after a "moody" year.

"You don't want anything that focuses on the now or the present. So yeah, I think people would rather look to the future," he said.

 

See more:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-14/2021-behind-the-lines-political-cartoon-exhibition/100697826

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