My Giant Colouring Book

A Hayward Touring Exhibition from Southbank Centre, London, on behalf of Arts Council England

Even today, when everything in art is supposedly permitted, the work of brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman still has the whiff of scandal and transgression. Their obsession with the ‘dark’, chaotic imagery of the unconscious, where unreason rules, is re-enforced by a consummate mastery of traditional skills in whatever medium they deploy.

19 of the 21 images are based loosely on join the-dots drawings from children’s picture books, triggering surrealistic interventions, improvised monstrous creatures, fantastic landscapes and macabre incidents, deviating wildly from the prescribed dot-to-dot formation.