John Minnion
15th September 2005
Stars of Stage and Screen

John Minnion’s distinctive black-and-white line illustrations have appeared regularly in the British press over two and a half decades. He was political caricaturist for the New Statesman throughout the Reagan/Thatcher years, at the same time drawing hundreds of composers in The Listener and for Naxos CDs. For some years he drew weekly portraits in The Guardian, and monthly illustrations in the BBC’s Worldwide and On Air magazines. Throughout the 1990s he drew mainly for The Times, illustrating weekly columns by the likes of Ned Sherrin, Lynne Truss, Nigella Lawson, Anthony Howard and Richard Morrison.

Since moving to Liverpool in 2001, he has concentrated on publishing books of his pictures. These include Glued to the Gogglebox, scenes from 50 years of British television, with text by Lynne Truss, whose TV column he illustrated in The Times.

His latest book, Hitler’s List is an illustrated guide to those geniuses whom the Nazis branded ‘degenerate’. These and other books will be on sale at this exhibition, along with prints and originals. John Minnion gives illustrated talks on the subject of Hitler’s List, and if you visit Krakow, you can see a semi-permanent exhibition based on this book, at the Galicia Jewish Museum.