Jake & Dinos Chapman

The Chapman Brothers are English artists who collaborate to produce controversial works using plastic or fibreglass models (and etchings in recent works) depicting scenes considered offensive and vulgar.  They were part of the Saatchi supported Young British Artists collective and were nominated for the Turner Prize in 2003.

The brothers have been working together since 1991 creating works on themes including 'the anatomical and pornographic grotesque' and torture, and they have used the works of Francisco Goya and Adolf Hitler as a basis for some of their projects.

They have a brilliant website at: http://www.jakeanddinoschapman.com/ which has news of current projects, past exhibitions and even have a live webcam in the studio. 

There is also a really good feature on the Chapman Brothers on the Artfield website at: http://artfieldeditions.com/biographies/jake-and-dinos-chapman/

Here are some examples of their model work: