Art - To coincide with LGBT History Month, until the 28th of February, The Drill Hall in London is hosting a major retrospective on the work by cartoonists Kate Charlesworth and David Shenton. Drawn Out & Painted Pink documents Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender history from the 1970s to the present day.

Kate and David have led overlapping cartooning lives during which they have, by default, documented a cultural history through 1970s' gay life, pretty police, HIV/AIDS, Section 28 and Dale Winton to civil-partnered LGBT lives of the new millennium. The exhibition follows this 'pink timeline' leading visitors
around the venue and ending in Drill Hall 2 where a series of events are planned to accompany the work.

Charlesworth and Shenton live and work independently, and sometimes collectively, in London and Edinburgh. As queer publishing boomed, documenting the action, debating the issues and telling us where to go for all the fun, Kate and David's work appeared in both the pink and plain presses, including The Guardian, Gay News, The Pink Paper, Sappho and Good Housekeeping.

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In the exhibition catalogue, Ellen Galford writes: "Like the best foreign correspondents (only funnier) their cartoons and comic strips have painted a devastatingly accurate self-portrait of LGBT life in the UK."

"Some of us suspect that they sneak into our houses and lurk behind doors with drawing-pads at the ready. They've even managed to eavesdrop on our dreams. They've got us bang to rights in the ways we were, the ways we are and the ways we could be. They are social documents of the highest order."

Award-winning lesbian writer Ellen Galford has described Kate and David's work as "a devastatingly accurate self-portrait of LGBT life in the UK".

Info:
Venue: The Drill Hall
16 Chenies Street, London WC1E 7EX
Dates and Times: 2–28 February 2010 | 12–7pm daily
Ticket Prices: £3 | £5 (with a souvenir programme)
Free entry on Saturday 20 February
Special Events: Thu 18 Feb | 7.30pm: Illustrated talk and Q&A | £5
Thu 25 Feb | 7.30pm: Guided tour with David Shenton | £5
Box Office: 020 7307 5060 or www.drillhall.co.uk