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EXHIBITION OVERVIEW:
• Over 100 comic artworks original drawings
• Over 50 contemporary artists today’s greatest creative rule-breakers
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Gilbert & George Phyllida Barlow
Sarah Lucas•
Alex WheatleNick Park Nicola Lane
• larger-than-life recreations of
Beano’s most iconic settings• Peter Liversidge
Bob Stanley of indie dance band Saint Etienne new catapult game
Tickets now on sale, priced at £16 (concessions, child and family tickets also
available) via www.somersethouse.org.uk.
world’s longest-running weekly comic’s mix of mischief, mayhem and fun
Beano has always applied
one simple rule - rules should be broken
BEANO: THE ART OF BREAKING THE RULES21 October 2021 – 6 March 2022A major exhibition at Somerset House
BEANO: THE ART OF BREAKING THE RULES21 October 2021 – 6 March 2022
Alex Wheatle
Phyllida Barlow Gilbert & George Martin
Creed Nick Park Sarah Lucas
Heather Phillipson Chris Sievey
Frank Sidebottom Bob Stanley of indie dance band Saint Etienne Horace
Panter of ska band The Specials
Jann Haworth Beryl Cook Rachel
Maclean Philippe Parreno Fischli/Weiss Rene
Matić Babak Ganjei, Ed Atkins Ryan Gander
Bedwyr Williams Hardeep Pandhal
exhibition that is just as unconventional as its content
Andy Holden
original comic drawings
- Dennis and Gnasher
Bananaman Bash Street Kids
Leo Baxendale Minnie the Minx Laura Howell
larger-than-life recreations of
Beano’s most iconic backdrops
eclectic collection of
contemporary artworks from today’s greatest creative rule-breakers
Beryl Cook
brand-new works
Alex Wheatle telling his own fascinating
story
BBC’s Small Axe
Nicola Lane brand-new comic strip for the show
imagining Dennis as a 70-year-old
BEANO: THE ART OF BREAKING THE RULES21 October 2021 – 6 March 2022
Steve Bell Bash
Street Kids all grown up
Rene Matić
observes the way that Dennis is always perceived as trouble
Flo Brooks
Les Pretend
Simeon Barclay inspired by Bash
Street Kids character Plug
Beanos Record Shop
fully functioning jukebox
curated by Bob Stanley of alternative pop band Saint Etienne
Horace Panter of two-tone and ska band The Specials
Class and Identity Education Feminism Art
Food
Heather Phillipson
Olivia Sterling
Mark McGowan
BEANO: THE ART OF BREAKING THE RULES21 October 2021 – 6 March 2022
Bedwyr Williams
Cory Arcangel
Emma Hart
Philippe Parreno
Peter Liversidge
A new rulebook for life will be created by current Beano
readers
painted onto a protest
sign live in the exhibition
slinging rotten tomatoes at the
great (virtual) works of art using that iconic Beano weapon, the catapult
Radley London
Walker’s Shortbread
Adonyeva
Foundation
The Kusuma Trust
BEANO: THE ART OF BREAKING THE RULES21 October 2021 – 6 March 2022
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