ABOUT
John Springs
John was born in Leeds in 1960
He Studied at Leeds College of Art and appeared in print for the first time in 1980 working regularly for the Spectator.
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Solo Shows:
The Cartoon Gallery, Fulford, York, 1981
Wolfson College Oxford, 1982
National Theatre, Southbank, London, 1984
Sally Hunter Gallery, Motcomb Street, London, 1992
Cartoon Gallery, Museum Street, London, 1993
Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Windmill Street, London, 1994
125 Gallery, Kulm Hotel, St Moritz, Switzerland, 2010
Chelsea Arts Club, 2015
Panter and Hall Gallery, Pall Mall, London, 2016
Mark Ransom Gallery, 2017
Kulm Hotel, St Moritz, Artist in Residence, Winter Season, 2018
In house cartoonist for Newsnight, BBC Television 1997
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Appeared in publications:
The New Yorker
Rolling Stone
Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine
New York Review of Books
Harpers and Queen
The Spectator
Vogue (USA)
The Sunday Telegraph (Cartoonist)
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (US)
The Sunday Times (UK)
The American Spectator
Interview (US)
Time Magazine
The Tatler
The Literary Review
The Observer
Entertainment Weekly (US)
The Wall Street Journal
The Financial Times
Mirabella (US)
The New Republic
American Express Traveller
Decanter
The Critic (Link)
Melbourne Age
Listener
Harpers & Queen
GQ
Esquire
Women's Quarterly
The Independent Magazine
Punch​
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Awards:
1999 41st Annual Exhibition, Society of Illustrators, Cert of Merit, nominated by Rolling Stone Magazine, NY
2004 British Cartoonists Association Caricaturist of the Year, Mall Galleries, London
Associations:
Chelsea Arts Club
Travellers Club
St Moritz Tobogganing Club
The Savage Club
The London Sketch Club
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Collections:
Victoria and Albert Museum
Chelsea Arts Club
The British Museum
Lord Moynihan of Chelsea (private)
Kulm Hotel, St Moritz, Switzerland
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