Chatman brothers artists biography silk

Jake Chapman was born in Cheltenham in and studied at North East London Polytechnic.

Chatman brothers artists biography silk

Dinos Chapman was born in London in and studied at Ravensbourne College of Art in London. Both studied at The Royal College of Art, London in

Jake and Dinos Chapman’s work explores hard hitting subjects such as war, politics, religion and morality while injecting their own brand of subversive humour and energy.

Known mainly for working in the medium of sculpture, the Chapmans also cross over into installation, drawing, painting and printmaking.

The Chapmans first came to public attention in with The Disasters of War exhibition.

Using plastic model figurines, the brothers recreated a series of tableaux inspired by the eighteenth century artist Francisco Goya’s famous series of etchings of the Franco-Spanish Napoleonic wars. This fascination with the Spanish artist has continued with their Insult to Injury series included in their Turner Prize nomination exhibition in at Tate Brita