Cartoons and Contraptions: The Wonderful World of W.Heath Robinson

Presented by Barry Venning

W. Heath Robinson became famous for designing bizarrely complicated devices for the simplest of tasks like wart removal or pancake making. He and his gadgets became so famous that Bletchley Park named one of their wartime code-breaking machines after him. Later still, some of the contraptions in Wallace and Gromit’s The Wrong Trousers are based on a gadget filled house that he made for the Ideal Home Show in 1934. Heath Robinson was also a fine painter, an outstanding literary illustrator and a brilliant satirist, who poked gentle fun at modern life in cartoons that are still hilarious…

Dates and Locations

Saturday 11 July 2026 Gold Coast (QLD)

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