Garland was born in Hampstead, London. His father was a doctor and his mother a sculptor. He was the second of six children: he had three brothers and two sisters and two half-sisters.[clarification needed] The family emigrated to New Zealand in 1946–7. He attended Rongotai College in Wellington.
Theatrical and directorial career
On leaving school, Garland joined the New Zealand Players (as a spear carrier and ASM), the only professional theatre company in New Zealand at the time, under the directorship of Richard Campion. In 1954 he returned to London to attend the Slade School of Art. After leaving the Slade, he went back into the theatre and joined Guildford Repertory Theatre Company as a stage manager.
In 1958 he moved to the Royal Court Theatre in Sloane Square, London, where he worked for the next three years. Subsequently he worked as a director, at Cheltenham Repertory Company and elsewhere, including as Assistant Director to Peter Ustinov in London and New York. He directed the first two cabarets at Peter Cook's Establishment Club and spent a year at the BBC working in the Tonight department.
Career as cartoonist
In 1964, Garland left the theatre to devote himself to a career as a cartoonist. He and Barry Humphries created the Barry McKenzie comic strip in Private Eye. Garland also worked for The Spectator and other journals. In 1966, he was appointed the first political cartoonist of The Daily Telegraph where he remained until 1986 when he was a founding journalist of The Independent. He rejoined The Daily Telegraph from 1990 until 2011. He was political cartoonist on the New Statesman during the 1970s and worked for The Spectator for many years.
He has exhibited woodcuts at the Fine Art Society in Bond Street, and his publications include: (illustrated) Horatius, by T. B. Macaulay (1977); An Indian Journal (1983); Twenty Years of Cartoons (1984); Travels With My Sketchbook (1987); Not Many Dead (1990); (illustrated )The Coma, by Alex Garland (2004); I Wish… (2007); Mommy, Daddy, Evan, Sage, by Eric McHenry (2011).
Garland's son, Tim, whose mother was the painter Margaret Evans, was born in 1957. In 1964, Garland married Harriet Crittall: their daughter, Emily was born in 1966, and the marriage was dissolved in 1968. In 1969 he married Caroline Medawar: they had two sons, writer and filmmaker Alexander (b.1970) and high school teacher Theodore (b.1972), before the marriage was dissolved in 1994. In 1995 he married Priscilla Roth, with whom he lives in Belsize Park, London.
References
^"Birthdays". The Guardian. Guardian News & Media. 1 September 2014. p. 29.
External links
Personal site displaying cartoons and fine-art work
Biography of Garland at the British Cartoon Archive, University of Kent
February 16, 2023
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