TOMMY'S OUT AND ABOUT THIS SUMMER!
LATEST: Tommy will be drawing visitors to Tollcross Park, Glasgow this Sunday, June 28th as part of the Big Day Oot! Both he and the rest of the squad from the Scottish Cartoon Art Studio will appear as part of the Scottish Parliament's 10th Anniversary celebrations, Wednesday 1st July.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
Free Entry
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.
Tommy Sommerville is a resident caricaturist at the Scottish Cartoon Art Studio in Glasgow, celebrating ten years in business in 2009. He is the creator of the Fizzers concept; highly rendered caricatures of famous Scots in a European style, for which the Studio is most well known. In the nineties he was familar to cartoon enthusiasts for his co-creation and editing of the (in)famous humour comic Electric Soup and co-founding the Scottish Cartoonists' & Comic Artist Members (SCCAM) Club. Through both SCCAM and the Studio, Tommy has taken the lead in exhibitions of cartoon artwork that have travelled as far afield as Zagreb, Croatia and Jonzac & St.Just-le-Martel, France. Today he specialises in both gift caricatures (suitable for presentation at special occasions such as birthdays, retirements and weddings) and live caricature (another favourite at weddings, but also as corporate entertainment for some of the biggest companies in the country).
This site features pages dedicated to both the Fizzers exhibitions and books (the first volume is available now from Mercat Press), his days on Electric Soup, the SCCAM Club and his most up-to-date work.
Exclusive prints of Fizzers caricatures available to buy online now at Legends of Football, including Tommy's take on such soccer stars as Billy Bremner, Marco Materazzi and Zinedine Zidane!
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