{"id":31444,"date":"2023-10-26T14:14:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T13:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31444"},"modified":"2023-10-26T14:14:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T13:14:11","slug":"geoff-dunbar-cartoon-exhibition-at-abingdon-county-hall-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31444","title":{"rendered":"Geoff Dunbar cartoon exhibition at Abingdon County Hall Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023102603.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe current exhibition at Abingdon County Hall Museum is a fun one, featuring the cartoons of Geoff Dunbar, a local artist and animator who has received national acclaim, including a BAFTA. The exhibition includes a video about his work and his fascinating recollections of Abingdon.<\/p>\n<p>The video helps to explain some of the cartoons, such as the one of the joke shop. The Artist tells of a second-hand clothes shop in Stert Street, which during the summer holidays, was transformed into a joke shop, and which became a firework shop with Guy Fawkes in the window before November 5th.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023102602.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe exhibition also features cartoons of present-day Abingdon, and the fun is to see how many caricatures you can recognise. The Artist <em>sez, &#8216;any resemblance to any person living or otherwise, is purely coincidental&#8230;&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some of the coincidental persons were invited to the opening of the exhibition on October 7th. Others staffed it. The exhibition runs until December 23rd. <\/p>\n<p>Abingdon County Hall Museum is run by Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current exhibition at Abingdon County Hall Museum is a fun one, featuring the cartoons of Geoff Dunbar, a local artist and animator who has received national acclaim, including a BAFTA. The exhibition includes a video about his work and his fascinating recollections of Abingdon. The video helps to explain some of the cartoons, such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}