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The master of the surreal mismatch of image and caption
The son of a welder, Glen Baxter was born in Leeds on 4 March 1944. He studied painting and lithography at Leeds School of Art (1960-5), and then taught in schools in London and Norwich (1967-74), and part-time at Goldsmiths’ College (1974-86). His poems and short stories were first published in 1970 in the New York magazine Adventures in Poetry, while his illustrative work first appeared later in the 1970s.
Baxter’s work is based on the style of much English children’s illustration of the 1930s and 40s, especially of stories of school and adventure, adapted to create a quietly surreal mismatch of image and caption. He has published several books in England and the United States, and has contributed to London, New Yorker, the Observer magazine, Het Parool and Globe Hebdo. His drawings are also widely available as greetings cards, and have been exhibited extensively in London and abroad. Major have been held in New York, Paris, San Francisco, Munich, Tokyo and Sydney.
In 1999 Baxter was commissioned by the French government to execute a tapestry. He has also worked on a series of etchings for the National Museum of Printmaking in Chatou, Paris.
Baxter’s work is in the collections of the Tate Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum in London and numerous museums and private collections around the world.
Exhibitions:
Having a laugh! - The British Art of the Cartoon
The
Illustrators 2006
