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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

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