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Name: Gerald Scarfe
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An Audience With Gerald Scarfe
Biography: Gerald Scarfe was born in London. He was asthmatic as a child and spent much time drawing and reading. After a brief period at the Royal College of Art in London, he established himself as a satirical cartoonist, working for Punch magazine and Private Eye during the early sixties. He has had many exhibitions worldwide, including New York, Osaka, Montreal, Chicago and London, and 50 one-man shows. He has designed the sets and costumes for plays, operas and musicals in London, Houston, Los Angeles and Detroit. His film work includes designing and directing the animation for Pink Floyd’s The Wall. Scarfe has written and directed many live action and documentary films for BBC and Channel 4 and has published many books of his work, the most recent being Scarface – an examination of the human face – and Hades: The Truth at Last for Disney Press.
1966 Joined the Daily Mail as political cartoonist
1966 Worked for Time Magazine in New York, making reportage drawings and creating Time covers of the Beatles and many others.
1967 Began long association with The Sunday Times as political cartoonist, also making on-the-spot war drawings in Vietnam, Northern Ireland and the Middle East.
1967 Costume designer – Ubu Unchained, Traverse Theatre
1968 Exhibition – US Election ’68, Waddell Gallery, New York
1969 Exhibition – Hung By Scarfe, Sears Vincent Price Gallery, Chicago
1970 Exhibition – Gerald Scarfe 60-70 Waddell Gallery, New York
1970 Exhibition – Gerald Scarfe, Osaka, Japan
1970-3 Exhibition – Gerald Scarfe, Sculpture Pavilion d’Humour, Montreal
1972 Animated film for BBCTV - Long Drawn-Out Trip
1974 Designer and director of animation for Pink Floyd live show Wish You Were Here
1975-81Designer and director of animation for Pink Floyd The Wall concerts and film
1978 Set and costume designer – What the Butler Saw, by Joe Orton, Oxford Playhouse
1981 Designer of back projected sets – No End of Blame, Royal Court Theatre
1983 Designed sets, The Big One, Dominion Theatre
1983 Exhibition - Gerald Scarfe at the Festival Hall.
1984 Designed animated sequences The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking
1985 Designed sets and costumes Who’s a Lucky Boy?, a musical by Alan Price, Royal Exchange, Manchester
1985 Designed sets and costumes Orpheus in the Underworld, ENO, London Coliseum, remounted: Detroit and Houston 1986, London, 1987, Los Angeles 1988
1986 Designed sets The Merry Wives of Windsor, Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis
1987 Devised and directed autobiographical film Scarfe by Scarfe for BBCTV
(BAFTA winner)
1991 Directed and presented TV film, Scarfe on Art
1991 Directed and presented TV film, Scarfe on Sex
1992 Directed and presented TV film, Scarfe in Paradise
1992 Directed and presented TV film, Scarfe on Class
1992 Directed and presented Horst for BBC’s Omnibus
1993-4 Designed sets and costumes for Feydeau farce Le Dindon (An Absolute Turkey) (Laurence Olivier Award)
1994-7 Production Designer and visual creator of characters in Disney animation feature
Hercules, premiered in the USA in July 1997 and in the UK in October 1997.
1997 Designed sets and costumes for The Magic Flute, Houston Opera House (remounted Los Angeles in 1998 and Seattle in 1999)
1997 (Jun-Nov) Exhibition - Gerald Scarfe Meets Walt Disney at the Museum of the Moving Image, South Bank, London
1997 Exhibition of the drawings for Hercules at the Z Gallery, New York.
1997 (Oct) South Bank Show special of Scarfe and his collaboration with Disney animators on Hercules for Independent Television
1998 Designed set of postage stamps of comedians for the Royal Mail
1998 Designer of sets and costumes for a new Opera, Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl, Los Angeles Opera
1999 Exhibition of paintings and drawings titled Scarfe at the N.P.G. at the National Portrait Gallery, London
2000 Designer of sculptures for Self-Portrait Zone, The Dome, Greenwich, London
2000 Costume designer, Peter & The Wolf, Holiday on Ice, Paris & world tour
2001 One man show, Gerald Scarfe in Southwark.
2002 Designer, The Nutcracker. English National Ballet
Gerald Scarfe is currently political cartoonist for the London Sunday Times and his work regularly appears in many periodicals, including The New Yorker, Vogue and Talk magazine.
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