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Right now the creative duo is based in London but the young ladies have traveled the world to paint mandalas, collaborate with design companies, think about the cosmos, cover walls and furniture with paintings or simply exhibit their illustrations. Cock- Rocket, Buenos Aires, August Their work has been features in countless magazines and books.
Becky Bolton and Louise Chappell have been working collaboratively as Good Wives and Warriors since , soon after graduating from the Painting Department at The Glasgow .
Right now, you can see Good Wives and Warriors work their magic on tv ads and billboards glorifying gigantic bottles of vodka and next month they will participate to Glitch Fiction , a collective exhibition part of the Paris Design Week. Or answering interviews…. Absolut Blank, July The work of Good Wives and Warriors is identifiable and iconic.
Do you feel that this is only a strength and not a curse sometimes?
Good Wives and Warriors illustration, murals, packaging, books.
For example, when clients expect you to stick to to what you are known for and you would rather feel like deviating and surprising them? We feel very much that our practice is divided into commercial work and our art work. Clients rarely want a surprise or to take a risk. They will have asked us because they like our style and will probably want something very much in the mold of what we do, which is fine.
Spam Senders Volume 4, March You seem to work very closely together but could someone who knows you well be capable of identifying who did what in a painting or an illustration? Like it would happen for example if either of you was more in charge of colours and the other of drawing the general outlines. Or do you work in such symbiosis that the end result is completely seamless even to you?