EXHIBITION OPENS: 21 July 2025
EXHIBITION CLOSES: 28 August 2025
The year 2024 was a golden Olympic year, with the politics mirroring the competitive cut and thrust of sport! Team players punched above their weight, while others were hit-for-six! The 2,500-year-old concept of democracy was tested around the globe with more than 80 countries and more than half the world’s population voting in elections!
Behind the Lines 2024 celebrates the year's best political cartoons. Featuring established and emerging cartoonists from across Australia, this exhibition highlights the significant contribution they make to cultural and political debates through witty, insightful and often poignant satirical cartoons.
This exhibition is supported by the National Collecting Institutions Touring and Outreach Program, an Australian Government program aiming to improve access to the national collections for all Australians.
You can view the online version of this exhibition here.
An audio description of the original exhibition in Canberra is available on their website.
Join us online on Wednesday 23 July at 11am for:
In Conversation with Megan Herbert, Political Cartoonist of the Year
Join ‘Behind the Lines 2024’ curator Matthew Jones and Political Cartoonist of the Year Megan Herbert as they explore the exhibition and Megan's work.
Megan Herbert is a cartoonist, illustrator, and writer whose work appears in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Her cartoons in ‘Behind the Lines’ reference climate change, the cost of living, the housing crisis and more in her signature style.
Presented as part of the exhibition, ‘Behind the Lines 2024: No Guts, No Glory’ on display at the Old Treasury Building from 21 July to 28 August 2025.
