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Roger Law (born 6 September 1941) is a British caricaturist, ceramist and one half of Luck and Flaw (with Peter Fluck), creators of the popular satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image .

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Roger Law was a pioneer in bringing political caricatures from newspapers and magazines to television. In 2020 Roger Law was executive producer on the new series of Spitting Image made with Avalon Productions and streamed on Britbox.

Early life and education

Law was born in Littleport, Cambridgeshire. Law went to Littleport Secondary Modern School in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, and attended Cambridge School of Art (now part of Anglia Ruskin University). He met Peter Fluck during his time there. [1]

Career

Early work

In 1960 whilst Roger was at Cambridge School of Art he was made art director of the university magazine, Granta. That same year, Roger was also published by East Anglian Magazine.  After graduating from Cambridge School of Art, Law started his career working in print, namely magazines. By 1963, Law was creating a weekly cartoon with Peter Cook for The Observer , a short-lived venture aptly named ‘Almost the end’. At the same time, Law was also doing a 14 ft long weekly cartoon strip for The Establishment Club , a nightclub opened by Peter Cook in Soho. The Establishment Club has since been named as a pivotal meeting spot for the British satirical movement in the 1960s.

In 1966 Law worked as a freelance caricaturist and illustrator for The Sunday Times . During this time he made his first 3D caricature model for Nova Magazine which won a D&AD silver award. That same year Law also worked on album covers for The Who, The Who Sell Out and Jimi Hendrix's Axis Bold as Love. Law is also said to have made a brief appearance in The Who's music video for "Happy Jack".

In 1967 Law moved to the United States and took up residence at Reed College, Portland. Whilst in the US Law worked on his first film featuring puppets, called The Milkman. The Milkman dystopian-satirical look at American capitalism and the technology that surrounded it. The film was awarded Rockefeller grant. Law also freelanced for Esquire and Newsweek.

After a brief stint working in New York at Push Pin Studios with Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast, Law returned to the UK in 1969 to be a features editor at The Sunday Times Magazine . When Rupert Murdoch bought The Times and The Sunday Times in 1975, Law left the magazine and formed a partnership with Peter Fluck, a group which became Luck & Flaw. Together they made 3D caricature models for magazine covers worldwide, including TheNew York TimesMagazine, Der Spiegel , Stern , The Economist & Radio Times. The pair also did visual satire over several pages for the National Lampoon. The piece on the common market was sold to every European country. In 1979 Luck & Flaw illustrated Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, published by Viking.

Law and Fluck also created caricature ceramics, featuring British politicians including Margaret Thatcher and members of the British royal family. In 1980 the BBC's Arena made an arts documentary on Luck and Flaw called The Luck and Flaw Show.

Spitting Image

In 1981 Law and Fluck made a plan to transfer political caricatures to television, which was funded by Martin Lambie-Nairn. Two years later the pilot for Spitting Image was shot. On 26 February 1984, the first episode of Spitting Image was transmitted on ITV for Central Independent Television. This was the first series of 18. In 1985 Spitting Image created puppets for two shows called ‘Michael Nesmith’s Television Parts’ for NBC Network TV, USA. In 1986, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by the pair, was published by Faber & Faber.

Arena made another two specials about Spitting Image, The Spitting Image Factory, where Law and Fluck toured the workshop where the show was produced. Also in 1985, they made another documentary with Arena called Luck and Flaw's Guide to Caricature.

In 1986 a song by Spitting Image, " The Chicken Song " topped the UK hit parade for three weeks. Under Law's creative eye the Spitting Image workshop produced merchandise alongside the show, notably rubber dog chews called 'Pet Hates' with the slogan ‘Throw a politician to your dog’.Spitting Image also released many popular books, such as The Appallingly Disrespectful Spitting Image Book and The Spitting Image Giant Komic Book. The Spitting Image workshop also created the puppets for the music video "Land of Confusion" by Genesis. The same year, Spitting Image published a book titled Tooth and Claw: Inside Story of "Spitting Image". This book gave an insight into working at the Spitting Image workshop and was mainly visual. In 1990 Spitting Image brought out ‘The Real Maggie Memoirs’ and Law published his first book, ‘A Nasty Piece of Work’, written in collaboration with Lewis Chester.

The Alliance Graphic International (AGI) elected Law as a member in 1993.

By 1994 Spitting Image had been franchised in countries such as Japan, Czech Republic, Portugal, Greece, Hungary, Germany and Russia. That same year Law worked on a new puppet TV film Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev Fantasy. It was the musical tale of Peter and the Wolf brought to life by puppets and human characters in a fairy tale world. The film was narrated by Sting and conducted by Claudio Abbado. Peter and the Wolf was the first-ever international co-production.[ citation needed ] In 1995 Law and Spitting Image funded a short animated film called The Big Story made by David Stoten and Timothy Watts, which was then nominated for an Academy Award (Oscar) and a BAFTA award.

The last series of Spitting Image was aired in 1996. The first online sale of the Spitting Image puppets was organised in 2000 by Kerry Taylor of Sotheby’s. The second sale was just a year later and hosted at Olympia. In 2018 Cambridge University Library accepted the Spitting Image Archive.

In September 2019 Spitting Image was confirmed to be returning twenty-three years after it was last aired. Avalon Productions produced the ten shows with Roger's as Exec Producer alongside Jeff Westbrook, Richard Allen-Turner, Joanna Beresford, and Jon Thoday. The first show was premiered on Britbox in the UK in the Autumn of 2020. The shows were also aired globally on separate platforms. Avalon has confirmed another ten shows to be aired in 2021.

The second series of Spitting Image aired in 2021, with Law being credited as executive producer.

Later career

From 1996 to 1997 Crapston Villas , which was produced in the Spitting Image workshop and studio, was aired. It was a stop-motion animation featuring a set of characters, living in a grim apartment building in the fictional London postcode of SE69, who were plagued by various dilemmas.

Roger then moved to Australia as an artist in residence at the National Art School in Sydney. That same year he was made a fellow of the International Specialised Skills Foundation in Australia. In 1999 Roger was made a member of The Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry (RDI).

In 2000 Roger was an artist in residence at Dartington pottery in Devon, UK. Roger also had three exhibitions Risk Takers and Pioneers,  Aussie Stuff-Way Beyond the Black Stump and The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2000. In that same year Roger was also presented an award from the University of Leicester's Political Studies Association on their 50th Anniversary 1950 – 2000

In 2005 Roger's second book, a semi-autobiography, Still Spitting at Sixty was published by Harper Collins with chapters on his Australian travels. Law also worked in Jingdezhen, China producing large carved ceramics. The Sladmore Gallery in London now sells Law's ceramics. Law then moved back to the UK in 2012.

Inspiration

Whilst Roger was at Art school Paul Hogarth, one of his tutors, showed him the French magazine, L’Assiette au Buerre. Roger has stated many times that the drawings and attitudes of the magazine were a great inspiration. L’assiette au Buerre was illustrated front to back with cartoons or caricatures with only a short satirical caption written at the bottom of each page. The magazine challenged social norms and commented on problems of the period but had no clear political alliance.

During Roger's early career whilst working closely with Peter Cook at The Observer and The Establishment Club he met many satirists including Lenny Bruce, such meetings gave him his first steps to use his drawing skills for satire. He quotes

“Only those who attempt the absurd are capable of achieving the impossible.”

Roger has always cited that the ‘family friendly’ puppet show Punch and Judy was a great inspiration when working on Spitting Image, they both pushed boundaries. The idea that you can have extreme violence, murder, and infanticide yet is still funny and even enjoyed by children was, retrospectively, his first step in creating the grotesque Spitting Image style.  

Roger has stated that his mentor was Paul Hogarth was a huge inspiration. Hogarth was an English artist and illustrator. Best known for his travel drawings that he made for Graham Greene's books, Robert Graves books and the Irish playwright Brendan Bingham.

The Fen's where Roger Law was born was outlaw territory until comparatively recently and anti-establishment attitudes still linger on. Roger feels growing up around people who had less of a desire to follow the rules gave him licence to break them throughout his career.

Personal life

He married Deidre Amsden (a quilt designer) in 1960 in Cambridge. They have a son (born 1962) and daughter (born 1965).

Television

Spitting Image

SeriesYearDatesNo. episodesTimes
Series 1198426 February – 17 June12 episodesMostly 10 pm
Series 219856 January – 24 March11 episodesMostly 10 pm
Series 319866 January – 2 November17 episodesMostly 10 pm
Series 419871 November – 6 December6 episodesMostly 10 pm
Series 519886 November – 11 December6 episodesMostly 10 pm
Series 6198911 June – 9 July5 episodesMostly 9.30 pm
Series 7198912 November – 17 December6 episodesMostly 10.05 pm
Series 8199013 May – 24 June6 episodesMostly 10.05 pm
Series 9199011 November – 16 December6 episodesMostly 10.05 pm
Series 10199114 April – 19 May6 episodesMostly 10.05 pm
Series 11199110 November – 15 December6 episodesMostly 10.05 pm
Series 12199212 April – 17 May6 episodesMostly 10.05 pm
Series 1319924 October – 8 November6 episodes10.05 pm
Series 14199316 May – 20 June6 episodes10.45 pm
Series 1519937 November – 12 December6 episodes10pm
Series 1619941 May – 5 June6 episodes10pm
Series 1719946 November – 18 December7 episodes10pm
Series 18199614 January – 18 February

Spitting Image Specials

TitleYearDateTimesDuration
Down And Out in the White House198614 September9.45 pm45 minutes
The Spitting Image 1987 Movie Awards1987Saturday 4 April10.45 pm30 minutes
Election Special1987Thursday 11 June10pm45 minutes
A Non-Denominational Spitting Image Holiday Special198727 December10pm30 minutes
The Ronnie And Nancy Show198817 April9.30 pm30 minutes
Bumbledown – The Life and Times of Ronald Reagan1988Saturday 29 October10.15 pm45 minutes
The Sound Of Maggie1989Saturday 6 May10.10 pm45 minutes
Election Special1992Wednesday 8 April10.40 pm30 minutes
The Spitting Image Pantomime199326 December10pm30 minutes
Ye Olde Spitting Image19951 January10.45 pm30 minutes
Best Ever Spitting Image200625 June10pm47 minutes
Spitting Image at 30201425 February9 pm45 minutes
YearTV ShowChannelProduction Company
1980Luck & Flaw (BBC arts documentary)BBCArena
1987Luck & Flaw’s History of Caricature.

(BBC Omnibus television arts documentary)

BBCBBC - Omnibus
1996 -1997‘Crapston Villas’Channel 4Produced by Richard Bennett, Sarah Ann Kennedy and Spitting Image Productions
1988Two BBC Arena specialsBBCArena
1988Arena
1997Strip Show (animated pilot)Channel 4
199760 Minutes
2006Best Ever Spitting ImageITV
2010Rude BritanniaBBC
2012A Law Unto HimselfAustralian Broadcasting Corporation
2014Whatever Happened toSpitting Image?BBC 4Arena
2014Carved, Drawn and QuarteredBBC 4
2014Genesis:Together & Apart (or Genesis: Sum of the Parts)BBC 2
2016The Janice Forsyth ShowBBC Scotland
2020Spitting Image – Series OneBritboxAvalon
2021Spitting Image – Series TwoBritboxAvalon

Film

YearFilmDirector(s)Producer(s)
1967The Milkman
1993Peter & The WolfSteve Bendelack, Roger Law & Christopher Swann
1995The Big StoryTim Watts and David StotenSpitting Image Productions
1997Krazy Kat
1999Pot Shots
1999 Periwig Maker Steffen SchäfflerAnnette Schäffler

Radio

ShowEpisodesDate First AiredBroadcasterProducer
Nasty, Brutish and Short – The History of Mr Punch1 episode(s)1997BBC Radio 4
Art Made in China5 episode(s)4 February 2008BBC Radio 4Mark Rickards
Museum of CuriosityTook part in episode31 May at 12 noon 2008BBC Radio 4
Spitting Images1 episode(s)1 February 2009BBC Radio 4Mark Rickards
Arts, Classical and Jazz zone1 episode(s)07/05/2009BBC Radio ScotlandMark Rickards
Whatever Happened to the Teapots?1 episode(s)9 November 2009BBC Radio 4Mark Rickards
Spitting In Russian1 episode(s)1 January 2010BBC Radio 4Mark Rickards
The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio 3 episode(s)14 March 2010BBC Radio 4Mark Rickards
I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Into Here5 episode(s)23 November 2010BBC Radio 4Mark Rickards
Archive on 4 - Satire: The Great British Tradition1 episode(s)Saturday 8 May 2010BBC Radio 4
The New Silk Road with Roger Law1 episode(s)29 July 2011BBC Radio 4Mark Rickards
Roger's Rabbits1 episode(s)29 October 2011BBC Radio 4Mark Rickards
Midday with Margaret ThrosbyTuesday 15 May 2012ABC Classic FM Radio
Roger Law and the Chinese Curiosities2 Seasons

5 episode(s) in each

2 July 2012 (Season 1)BBC Radio 4Mark Rickards
Seriously - South Africa Spits Back1 episode(s)30 March 2013BBC Radio 4
Wow! How Did They Do That?5 episode(s)12 August 2013BBC Radio 4Mark Rickards
Private Passions1 episode(s)9 November 2014BBC Radio 3
Roger Law: Art and Seoul5 episode(s)21-25 December 2015 (Season 2)BBC Radio 4Mark Rickards
Roger Law and The Giant Pot1 episode(s)Tue 22 August 2017BBC Radio 4Mark Rickards

Books

TitleDatePublished ByRoger CreditAuthor
A Christmas Carol1979VikingRoger Law and Peter Fluck IllustratedCharles Dickens
The Appallingly Disrespectful Spitting Image Book1985FABER & FABERSpitting Image
Treasure Island1986Faber & FaberEditor, IllustratorRobert Louis Stevenson
The Spitting Image Giant Komic Book1988PYRAMID BOOKSNick Newman
Spitting Images1987CenturyCreated by Fluck & Law
A Nasty Piece of Work1992Booth-Clibborn EditionsRoger Law (Lew Chester)
Margaret Thatcha The Real Maggie Memoirs1993Octopus, HamlynSpitting Image
Still Spitting at Sixty: From the 60s to My Sixties, A Sort of Autobiography2005HarperCollins UKAuthorRoger Law
AGI: Graphic Design Since 19502007Thames and HudsonContributorBen & Elly Bos
The QI Annual2007Faber and FaberDrawings -  Roger Law’s ChinaJohn Lloyd
The QI Annual2008Faber and FaberIllustrations for Which Ancient Chinese Fool Are You?John Lloyd
The QI Annual2009Faber and FaberIllustrations for QI’s A to Z of Gods, Oh My Gods!`John Lloyd
The Illustration Idea Book2018Laurence King PublishingContributorby Steven Heller and Gail Anderson,

Exhibitions

DateYearShowGalleryLocation
N/A1986The Mrs Thatcher Teapot and the Reagan Coffee PotThe Potteries Museum and Art Gallery Ceramic Collection.
13 August -18 OctoberN/AThe Cutting Edge,Barbican Art GalleryLondon
N/AN/ASeven Deadly Sins (purchased by the V&A for their collection also by The British Council for their collection).Victoria and Albert MuseumLondon
N/A1995Teapot Mania, touring exhibition.  Norwich Castle Museum, (teapot now in the Castle Museum Ceramic Collection).Norfolk
May/July1995Making SenseExeter City Museums and Art Gallery
25 June  - 13 July1996Modern Antiques, exhibition with Janice Tchalenko.Richard Dennis Gallery, London
1997Time for TeaInternational travelling exhibitionThe British Council
23 April - 5 May1999Exhibited in the National Art School Ceramics Staff Exhibition.Mura Clay Gallery.Newtown, Sydney
24 October - 25 November2000Way Beyond the Black Stump (Exhibition and catalogue of watercolours, brush drawings, prints, ceramics and bronzes)Rebecca Hossack GalleryLondon
2000Risk Takers and PioneersCentenary GalleryCamberwell, London
Summer2000The Royal Academy of Arts Summer ExhibitionThe Royal Academy of ArtsBurlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD
5-28 April2005The Land of Oz.The Fine Art Society,New Bond Street, London, UK.
17 June – 3 July2005Plates Painted at Dartington,
Unknown2006Cover Story – The Art and Photojournalism of the Sunday Times Magazine, exhibitionThe Gin HouseLondon.
4 August – 3 September.2006Cicada Press Exhibition of Prints.Marianne Newman GalleryCrows Nest, Sydney
7 – 23 September2006Prints from Cicada Press.Michael Nagy Fine Art GalleryWoollahra, Sydney
Unknown2007Prints from Cicada Press.Marianne Newman GalleryCrows Nest, Sydney
Unknown2007Prints from Cicada Press,Michael Nagy Fine Art GallerySydney
Unknown2007The Annual Jingdezhen Ceramics Fair International Exhibition.N/AJingdezhen, China.  
Unknown2007Christmas Ceramics, a group exhibition,The Fine Art Society,London.
April2008Between the Flags.Prints from Cicada Press.Orange, New South Wales.
4 September – 17 October.2008Drawn EncountersThe Gallery at WimbledonLondon
20 October – 3 November.2008Anglia Ruskin University 150: A Pictorial History – Past and Present on the Cambridge Site.Anglia Ruskin University Library.Cambridge
Unknown2008Prints made with Cicada PressThe Print Collection of the National Gallery of Australia,Canberra
Unknown2010The Really, Really Rude Show.Andrew Edmunds  Print Shop,Lexington Street, London.
18 October 2011 – 8 January 2012.2010–11Private Eye: The First 50 YearsVictoria & Albert MuseumLondon
4 November 2011 – March 2012,2011–12Porcelain City: Jingdezhen, exhibitionthe Victoria & Albert MuseumLondon
Private view 18 January 2012, exhibition continued until 11 February 2012.2012Funding the Future (exhibition and auction)Contemporary Ceramics CentreLondon
1 February – 8 April.2012Her Maj, 60Years of Unofficial Portraits of the Queen,Cartoon MuseumLondon
Australia 15–20 May2012Travelling Light (Solo exhibition)Mary Place GalleryPaddington, Sydney
2 August – 3 November2013Cover Story: Radio Times at90 (exhibition of Radio Times covers)Museum of London
26 February – 8 June.2014Spitting Image, From Start to FinishCartoon MuseumLondon
30 October – 15 November.2014Roger Law (solo exhibition)Sladmore ContemporaryBruton Place, London
London 8–11 May2015Collect, Sladmore ContemporaryCrafts Council, The Saatchi Gallery.London
5–12 December2015Wells Art for Wells Charities,Gallery PlusNorfolk
30 November – 23 December.2016Transported, Roger Law & Stephen BirdThe Scottish GalleryEdinburgh
28 January – 4 March.2017Black & WhiteOxford CeramicsOxford
3 May – 3 June.2017175 Years of ArtThe Scottish GalleryEdinburgh
6 December to January 2018.2017–18Roger Law Ceramics,Sladmore ContemporaryLondon
19 November to April 2018.2018Satire to CeramicsSainsbury Centre for Visual ArtsNorwich
29 March (opened)2019Laughing Matters: The State of a Nation,The Victoria & Albert Museum.London
4 June2019Daylight RubberyThe Political Cartoon Gallery & CaféPutney, London
8-23 June2019Birds, (exhibition inspired by birds)Fen Ditton GalleryCambridge
14-22 September2019Modern Art for Modern LivingFen Ditton GalleryCambridge

Awards and nominations

AwardYearNominated WorkCategoryResult
Golden Rose of Montreux1985Spitting Image-win
Broadcasting Guild award1985Spitting Image
Nominated for BAFTA Award1985Spitting ImageVTR EditorsLoss
International Emmy1986Spitting ImageOutstanding popular artsWon
Nominated for BAFTA1986Spitting ImageLight Entertainment
Golden Gate Awards, San Francisco, USA1988X2 Won
Bronze Lion Award1988
D&AD Award1989Spitting ImageTelevision and cinema graphics
Special Mention in Television Queen Award1989Spitting Image
International Film and TV Award, New York, USA.1989Spitting Image
17th International Emmy nomination1989Spitting Image
Gold Medal, New York Film & TV Festival.1991Spitting Image
Nominated for a BAFTA Award1992Spitting ImageLight Entertainment.
Broadcast Awards1996Crapston Villas,Best New Programme.

Music awards

AwardYearNominated WorkCategoryResult
BPI Platinum DiscSpitting Image's Chicken Song
Six MTV award nominations1987Land of Confusion, Genesis music video
Grammy Award1987Land of Confusion, Genesis music video
Diamond Award1987Land of Confusion, Genesis music videoBest Storyboard, Best Video and Best Group Video.

Film

AwardYearNominated WorkCategory
Best Animated Production, TV Movie Awards, New Jersey, USA.1991Best Animated Production
International Emmy1994Puppet film Peter and the Wolf,Music and Arts Award
Nominated for American Academy Award (OSCAR)1995The Big Story
Nominated BAFTA Award1995The Big Story

Design awards

AwardYearNominated WorkCategory
D&AD Award1966Nova Magazine 3D caricature illustration
Award for Consistent Excellence, Association of Illustrators1983
Lifetime Achievement Award, Cartoon Art Trust, London, UK1998
Award presented to Roger Law by the Political Studies Association Awards on their 50th Anniversary2000
Oldie Puppeteer of the Year2020

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