Christmas in Hell: Stocking Fillers from the Chapman Brothers

- by Sabine Zetteler

The enfants terrible of the British art establishment have been sharing their uniquely twisted vision of the world for over 20 years, creating eye-popping portrayals of the obscene, the profane and the socially uncomfortable, using sculpture, drawing, painting and literature. And now that their shop is open, you can own a piece of their darkly hilarious universe – without having to fork out an art-dealer price tag.

For the Zetteler Christmas list, we’ve picked our top-five Chapman pieces currently in stock (the range is constantly changing and expanding). We’d be delighted to open any of the following on Christmas morning. You may consider that a hint.

A skull-etched Zippo, designed to commemorate the 2004 arson attack that destroyed the Chapman’s Hell (and then soundly rejected as a Momart Christmas gift idea).

A 10m roll of wallpaper printed with a selection of images from 2003’s Insult to Injury – the Chapmans’ reworking of Los Caprichos, Goya’s depictions of Spanish Civil War atrocities.

A memento mori for your intimate ablutions – produced in association with the 2014 Jerwood Gallery exhibition In the Realm of the Unmentionable.

A hand-painted and glazed grinning plate, to make dinner more endearing/mildly sinister.

Signed by Jake and Dinos, and one of a limited edition of 100 pieces, this unframed 2012 artwork depicts the colourfully pornographic nocturnal visions of a dozing rabbit.

All of these works and dozens more are available to order online now – before 20 December if you want to ensure Christmas delivery and make someone happy/perplexed/mildly alarmed on the 25th.