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, 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, Thank You For Burning, 2019
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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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David Shrigley, Fast Train to Shitsville, 2021
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David Shrigley, Witness my joy, 2022
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David Shrigley, Talk To The Hand, 2021
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David Shrigley, Please Shut Up, 2022
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David Shrigley, Everything is Good, 2023
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David Shrigley, Preen Yourself with Rigour and Diligence, 2023
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David Shrigley, The Elephant, 2023 Ki
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David Shrigley, Balance The Ball On Your Nose, 2022
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David Shrigley, I Destroyed the Tennis Ball, 2021
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David Shrigley, I Must Rest My Rampage Is Over, 2022
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David Shrigley, Just Fly Away, Try Not To Look Back, 2023
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David Shrigley, The World, 2020
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David Shrigley, Everything is Fine, 2023
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David Shrigley, Extract The Juice, 2023
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David Shrigley, I Hate Human Beings, 2022
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David Shrigley, Ignore The Ghosts, 2022
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David Shrigley, Enjoy each moment, 2022
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David Shrigley, Everything is Fine, 2023
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