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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