David Shrigley was born in Macclesfield in 1968 and studied at
Glasgow School of Art. 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 Bonnie
'Prince' Billy. His work has also been profiled in a documentary
for Channel 4. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2013 and in
2016 his sculpture Really Good was installed on Trafalgar Square's
Fourth Plinth. In 2018, he will be Guest Director of the Brighton
Festival. He lives and works in Brighton.
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Master of all things darkly comic . . . An excellent new book
[Fully Coherent Plan] features 254 new illustrations, all drawn in
his distinctive thick black pen on stark white paper, the naivety
of the image offset by the scabrous, surreal or darkly comic
text
* * Observer * *
For all the uneasy peculiarity of the drawings, they often capture
something fundamental about the human condition . . . His mordant
humour has never felt more attuned to the age . . . His world is
known to us now. But he continues to invert power structures, prick
egos and salute the everyday magnificently
* * Times Literary Supplement * *
Concerned about the breakdown of society? Fear not: David Shrigley
has a plan . . . Shrigley points politely towards the ridiculous
and arbitrary nature of the societal strictures by which we all
abide and from which he seems so blissfully free
* * Esquire * *
One of the Turner Prize nominee's greatest abilities as an artist
is to create resoundingly funny work while also offering wry
political commentary, in a fashion that is so thoroughly bizarre
that it never fails to surprise . . . Shrigley's world has
something to offer everyone
* * Elephant * *
David Shrigley is probably the funniest gallery-type artist who
ever lived
*DAVE EGGERS*
Shrigley's darkly funny illustrations reflect our surreal and
disquieting times
* * The Big Issue * *
One of the cleverest, funniest conceptual artists . . . Genius
* * Guardian * *
PRAISE FOR DAVID SHRIGLEY: The best gift book, for a crazy person
you really, really like
* * New York Times * *
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*
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*
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