 Their newspaper (crudely produced by mimeograph) extolled the Surrealists as a local political party, printed fake photographs in which local landmarks had been demolished, and never printed a story based in truth.Monger first professionally exhibited paintings at the age of sixteen in the South Wales Group at the National Museum of Wales.After attending boarding school in Taunton, Somerset, he went to the Chelsea School of Art, London, where he won the Bidduph Scholarship for painting.