John Cake and Darren Neave's work to date has been an exploration of the iconic, a trawling through recent art history in an attempt at understanding the significance of the artwork and the culture that creates it. Playful and irreverent, but created with a genuine affection, their work, while accessible in its use of material and subject matter, explores the more complex issues of process, identity, authorship, branding and art's relationship to consumerism and product.
They have worked as a partnership since 1996, often under the banner of The Little Artists.
They have exhibited worldwide.
“The biggest thing about Rabbie Burns that has really intrigued us is how he has been embraced within Modern Scotland and the world - He has a national day (with celebration, singing and dancing), a huge legacy, countless websites, his books, poems etc are still published and updated and translated - you can even buy a plate with him on! This has us fascinated with how, after 250 years he is a huge Scottish brand!
We think a lot of artists and writers will deal directly with his writing - but for us and the nature of our work - we are being overwhelmed by how he is being consumed today... this has really caught our imagination.”
Darren Neave and John Cake (The Little Artists)
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