Jake & Dinos Chapman have been a collaborative team since the early 1990's. Their first solo installation, 'We Are Artists', was an aesthetic manifesto of sorts, made with Letraset on a wall covered in excrement like brown paint. The following year, they created a diorama sculpture out of remodeled plastic figurines enacting scenes from Goya's Disasters of War series of etchings of the early 19th century. A single scene from the work was then meticulously transformed into a life size tableau with refashioned generic fiberglass mannequins.

In Great Deeds Against the Dead (1994) three castrated soldiers in various states of bodily mutilation are tied to a tree. The Chapman's reappropreation of Goya's solemn etching becomes an ironic evocation of beauty and perversity, humor and horror.

Over the past few years the Chapmans have further exploited the shop-window dummy. Jake and Dinos Chapman both graduated from the Royal College of Art. They have recently had solo exhibitions at the ICA, London.