My Giant Colouring Book by Jake and Dinos Chapman at The Museum of Childhood in September
August 11, 2011
An exhibition of etchings from Jake and Dinos Chapman was never going to be innocent but what they have done for this Hayward Gallery touring show is use the principle of the old join-the-dot children’s colouring books and added their own colourful narrative.
This series of 21 etchings was first published in 2004 and shows many of their favourite themes such as monstrous creatures including sabre toothed owls, psychedelic grinning cats and bears trapped in the belly of the Loch Ness Monster. According to Dinos Chapman ” (They) are about how wrong you could make an image”
So if your child loves a good dark evil storytale and won’t be kept up late at night by scary images just the thing for a wet autumn weekend then!
10th September – 8th January at The Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green, London E2 9PA
My Giant Colouring Book 21, 2004 Copyright Jake and Dinos Chapman and The Paragon Press, London
My Giant Colouring Book 5, 2004 Copyright Jake and Dinos Chapman and The Paragon Press, London
My Giant Colouring Book 20, 2004 Copyright Jake and Dinos Chapman and The Paragon Press, London
All images – My Giant Colouring Book 20, 2004 – Copyright Jake and Dinos Chapman and The Paragon Press, London
All posts copyright to Smudgetikka – permission must be asked for reproduction Nov 2009-2011
Alex and Alexa the online children’s fashion store recently tweeted their new delivery of the Yves St Laurent kids colouring book and I wondered how many other designer colouring books there were for would be fashionable young girls?
I found a couple more rooting around the internet but not many and I wondered is this a missed opportunity for high fashion brands whose archives are stuffed full of such sketches. I know I would have loved this as a cusp of teenage young girl who loved art and drawing.
Interestingly I found RxArt’s colouring books featuring the work of contemporary artists which as alternatives go is a pretty great book. This is volume 2, volume 1 apparently sold out so there may be more in the pipeline. The books are sold online and also distributed free of charge to sick kids in hospital, a nice gift.
Yves St Laurent colouring book for kids at Alex and Alexa.com
Fashion colouring book by Nina Chakrabarti from Amazon
Pages from 'Between the lines' artists colouring book from RxArt Vol 2
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