In a few words
The definitive collection of the work of cult artist David Shrigley, who has been nominated for the Turner Prize 2013
In a few words
The definitive collection of the work of cult artist David Shrigley, who has been nominated for the Turner Prize 2013
Funny, profound and surprising all at the same time
Harry Hill
A brilliant new volume
Weird, funny, abject, wise, silly, savage, moral and engaging.
If you're looking for a humour/art crossover, then David Shrigley's stuff is spot on. I like the childlike aspect, and there's a lot of irony. It's a tricky thing to get right; a lot of people try to copy him. You look at some of his stuff and think: I could do that - but, like all great art, all the bits have to be in the right place for it to work.
Harry Hill
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the book
A beautifully designed and darkly comic collection of work, this book gathers together the best of Shrigley’s work, old and new. It is a celebration of the surreal world of one of our finest contemporary artists.
More about
the book
A beautifully designed and darkly comic collection of work, this book collects together the best of Shrigley’s work, old and new. It is a celebration of the surreal world of one of our finest contemporary artists.
David Shrigley is probably the funniest gallery-type artist who ever lived.
Dave Eggers
Consistently funny
[A] master of modern surrealism . . . a must for fans of the absurd
On the kink of his line Shrigley can shift effortlessly from pathos to paranoia. And his work is funny - very funny - his timing devastatingly effective.
Will Self
David Shrigley is probably the funniest gallery-type artist who ever lived.
Dave Eggers
With a casual gesture Shrigley points to that hideous shape whose name I've never known - and then he names it. And the name is profoundly, embarrassingly familiar. I'm laughing while frantically searching for a pen, so desperate to capture the feeling he has unearthed in me.
Miranda July
An artist who achieves that rarest of phenomena: the capacity to make his audience view the world in his terms entirely. . . [he] takes on everything: memory and forgetting, love and hate, murder and preservation, god and godlessness.
Will Self
Shrigley's comedy appears to confirm the belief of great humourists (from Laurence Sterne to Woody Allen) that laughter is synonymous with hope. In the arena of contemporary art, Shrigley's work maintains a dualism, which is rare, rewarding and ultimately generous.
David Shrigley
View profileDavid Shrigley was born in Macclesfield in 1968 and studied at Glasgow School of Art. He has worked as a sculptor, photographer and ‘environment artist’ and, most famously, as a cartoonist and illustrator. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2013 and his work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, at the MoMA in New York, and in Paris, Berlin, Melbourne and beyond. He has published over twenty books, and has animated a music video for Blur and produced another for Bonny Prince Billy. His work has also been profiled in a documentary for Channel 4 and he was invited to hold a major, four-month retrospective at the Hayward Gallery in London. He lives and works in Glasgow.
David Shrigley
View profileDavid Shrigley was born in Macclesfield in 1968 and studied at Glasgow School of Art. He has worked as a sculptor, photographer and ‘environment artist’ and, most famously, as a cartoonist and illustrator. He has been nominated for the Turner Prize 2013. His work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, at the MoMA in New York, and in Paris, Berlin, Melbourne and beyond. He has published over twenty books, and has animated a music video for Blur and produced another for Bonny Prince Billy. His work has also been profiled in a documentary for Channel 4. He lives and works in Glasgow.
