David Shrigley

British artist David Shrigley is best known for his distinctive drawing style and works that make satirical comments on everyday situations and human interactions.

David Shrigley was born in 1968 in Macclesfield, UK. He lives and works in Brighton, UK.

David Shrigley’s quick-witted drawings and hand-rendered texts are typically deadpan in their humour and reveal chance utterings like snippets of over-heard conversations. Recurring themes and thoughts pervade his storytelling, capturing deliberately two-dimensional views of the world, the perspective of aliens and monsters or the compulsive habits of an eavesdropper shouting out loud. While drawing is at the centre of his practice, Shrigley also works across an extensive range of media including sculpture, large-scale installation, animation, painting, photography and music. Shrigley consistently seeks to widen his audience by operating outside the gallery sphere, including producing artist publications and creating collaborative music projects.

His digital animations such as ‘Headless Drummer’ and ‘The Artist’ demonstrate what Shrigley calls ‘the economy of telling stories’, delivering a deftly crafted mix of dark and light through the simplest of forms. In his sculptural works, rendered in materials such as bronze and ceramic, the artist makes physical some of his more curious and eccentric propositions by transforming found objects or by playing with their scale. Taking Lewis Carroll's perspective of Wonderland, Shrigley enlarges objects and imbues them with curious proportions.

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David Shrigley, It Was Worthwhile Doing This, 2022-Smolensky Gallery

David Shrigley, It Was Worthwhile Doing This, 2022
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David Shrigley, Tornado Of Nonsense Poster, 2021-Smolensky Gallery

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David Shrigley, When Life Gives You A Lemon Poster, 2021-Smolensky Gallery

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David Shrigley, Look At This, 2020-Smolensky Gallery

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David Shrigley, Fish Says Fuck You All, 2021-Smolensky Gallery

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David Shrigley, Frog (front of), Frog (back of) Poster, 2021-Smolensky Gallery

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David Shrigley, Sorry For Being Annoying, 2021-Smolensky Gallery

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David Shrigley, You Got Beaten By A Crab, 2021-Smolensky Gallery

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David Shrigley, This Huge Cat, 2022-Smolensky Gallery

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David Shrigley, Some Of My Best Friends Are Pigs, 2019-Smolensky Gallery

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David Shrigley, He Will Only Eat Squid Ink Pasta, 2019-Smolensky Gallery

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David Shrigley, You Are Too Close, 2019-Smolensky Gallery

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David Shrigley, Signs Of The Zodiac, 2024-Smolensky Gallery

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David Shrigley, Please Remove Your Brain From My Jar, 2020-Smolensky Gallery

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David Shrigley, Life Is Very Good, 2016-Smolensky Gallery

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David Shrigley, If You Don't Like Tomatoes, 2020-Smolensky Gallery

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David Shrigley, Complexity of the Foot, 2020-Smolensky Gallery

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David Shrigley, I Will Not Fight, 2019-Smolensky Gallery

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David Shrigley, The Moment Has Arrived, 2021-Smolensky Gallery

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David Shrigley, You Win This Mushroom, 2020-Smolensky Gallery

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David Shrigley, I Did Not Ask To Be A Bird, 2021-Smolensky Gallery

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David Shrigley, Truth, 2020-Smolensky Gallery

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David Shrigley, Weather Forecast, 2024-Smolensky Gallery

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David Shrigley, I Wish the Clouds Were Not There, 2024-Smolensky Gallery

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David Shrigley, The Moon, 2024-Smolensky Gallery

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