Behind the Lines is the annual exhibition of the year’s best political cartoons and for former Canberra Times cartoonist David Rowe, judged the winner for his body of work in 2013, it was his mates from St Edmund’s days who joined him in the gardens at Old Parliament House to celebrate the award and the exhibition opening.
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Cartoonists are the masters of the succinct and the subtle. And the smack bang in your face ridiculousness of political posturing is grist for their mill. They are a barometer of opinion. Most don’t need words, most don’t need much detail but the idiosyncratic of the company of brilliant Australian political cartoonists is what we grow to love.
A talent honed at The Canberra Times, David Rowe, shared his cubby with the legendary Graham Downie and his drawings adorned columns by Ian Warden – though Warden, according to Rowe is a little vague about that memory – and he thinks beating former editor Crispin Hull at squash was not a good idea. But Rowe learnt well and prospered and is now the Australian Financial Review cartoonist and his winning 2013 body of work is lasciviously delicious in the characterization of Tony Abbott et al.
