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.
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.
David Shrigley, How Fast Can You Run, 2022
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David Shrigley, Any Direction is Fine, 2022
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David Shrigley, I Received a Clonk To The Head, 2022
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David Shrigley, I Mean No Disrespect, 2022
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David Shrigley, Do Not Fuck About With It, 2022
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David Shrigley, Do Not Eat Him, 2022
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David Shrigley, Monkey Isn't Thinking About You, 2022
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David Shrigley, Really Good, 2016
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David Shrigley, They Were Too Long, 2020
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David Shrigley, People Expect So Much From Me, 2021
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David Shrigley, Stink, 2023
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David Shrigley, Serpent, 2020
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David Shrigley, Leap Into the Void, 2023
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David Shrigley, Animals & Existentialism and Human Behaviour (set of 8), 2022
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David Shrigley, I Cannot Change My Spots But I Have No Desire To Change My Spots, 2022
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David Shrigley, Be Yourself Just Be Yourself, 2023
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David Shrigley, Tiger Shit, 2021
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David Shrigley, The Dam will Not Build Itself, 2023
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David Shrigley, Thank You For Keeping Still, 2023
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David Shrigley, I am Very Beautiful, 2025
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David Shrigley, I Will Not Allow The Dark Skies To Affect Me, 2025
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David Shrigley, The Plant Loves Me, 2023
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David Shrigley, I Woke You Up At Dawn I Make No Apology, 2024
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David Shrigley, Just Fly Away, 2022
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David Shrigley, Pretty Thoughts Inside Your Head, 2018
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