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I can do it because nobody wants to buy The Da Vinci Code any more – they just want to deposit it. So that for me is a project about: ‘Wake up! We are sleepwalking into a totalitarian regime!’” Artist David Shrigley Honorary Doctor of Arts degree from De Montfort University". 22 July 2014. [ permanent dead link] Born in Cheshire in 1968, Shrigley started studying art at Leicester Polytechnic in 1987 before heading to Glasgow School of Art for his degree in environment art in 1988, a time when he believed “there wasn't a precedent for people selling work that wasn't figurative painting.” Shrigley believes he is an outsider to the art world for his flat compositions taking on the inconsequential, the bizarre, and the disquieting elements of daily life. It’s not like he is trapped in the English countryside either. He frequently visits Copenhagen where he has the Shrig Shop (inspired by Keith Haring’s Pop Shop), which, even though it’s “around the corner and up the alley”, acts as the physical focus of his online business. I can’t help asking if he has sampled Copenhagen’s food scene. It turns out the legendary restaurant Noma gives departing staff a Shrigley print – and in return he gets free meals there. Yes, he confirms, it is as good as people say.

Edwin Gilson, " Five minutes with... David Shrigley, Brighton Festival 2018 guest director". The Argus (Brighton), 16 February 2018. Accessed 28 February 2018. Jones, Catherine (20 January 2016). "Liverpool 'Big Mouth' is reading city shoppers' thoughts". Liverpool Echo. Liverpool . Retrieved 26 January 2016.Shrigley Forced To Speak With Others – Shrigley Forced To Speak With Others". Discogs . Retrieved 30 January 2016. David Shrigley (1968) is best known for his distinctive drawing style and works that make satirical comments on everyday situations and human interactions. His flat compositions take on the inconsequential, the bizarre, and the disquieting elements of daily life. While drawing is at the centre of his practice, the artist also works across an extensive range of media including sculpture, large-scale installation, animation, painting, photography and music. LateNightTales: David Shrigely". latenighttales.co.uk. Archived from the original on 6 October 2016 . Retrieved 6 October 2016. Shrigley was born in Macclesfield but grew up in Oadby near Leicester. His main interaction with art as a kid was through record sleeves (the Fall’s Live at the Witch Trials was a favourite, long before he heard it). But it was a trip to Tate Britain with his dad in 1982 that really sparked his interest: Jean Tinguely’s kinetic constructions led him to Dada – the absurdist art movement that sprung up in Zurich during the first world war – which he still believes is the most important moment in art history. “Thinking of art as being in opposition to everything,” he says.

Not Deadly Serious: Glasgow School of Art graduate David Shrigley's macabre humour has seen his show at London's Hayward Gallery shortlisted for the Turner Prize". In the case of multiple bidders placing the same maximum bid, the first person to place the maximumShrigley’s Really Good, installed on the fourth plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square in September 2016. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

For Shrigley the drawings that he likes best are the ones that surprise or confuse him. “Where I think ‘It’s kind of funny, but I don’t know what it means … so I’ll just put it out there and figure it out.” I suspect Shrigley himself will be a beneficiary of the charity too. He says he’s spent his career feeling “not like a fraud, but … a bit selfish, like I’m just pleasing myself and enjoying my life far too much.” Recently he’s been reading about people who have overcome chronic pain through their artistic endeavours. “This one woman was really suffering with an arthritic condition, she was basically incapacitated. Then she joined a choir and the pain went. The doctors don’t know how it works, they just told her to keep doing it.” Rachel Whiteread calls for end to Trafalgar Square fourth plinth sculptures". The Guardian. 19 January 2023 . Retrieved 19 January 2023. The shop, an Oxfam in Swansea, south Wales, piled up its many copies of the book and placed a sign on them reading: “You could give us another Da Vinci Code … but we would rather have your vinyl! We urgently need more records to help keep our customers happy … and make more money for Oxfam.”

Once more he sounds utterly astounded by this endlessly confusing, utterly unknowable thing he’s devoted his life to. “It was just so exciting to find out that art is … actually good for people.” When he says he still paints as he did aged five, he doesn’t only mean he has avoided being ruined by craft skills. He is also referring to the “stupid or violent” words he would put in the creature’s mouth. Shrigley's work has been exhibited widely, including solo shows at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. In 2013, he was nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize for his solo show David Shrigley: Brain Activityat the Hayward Gallery in London. Shrigley prefers to point to the formal structure of his work, and the philosophical humour it embodies. He likes to think he has a lot in common with a friend, the conceptual artist Martin Creed. Imitating him, he puts on a deliberately bad Scottish accent: “Aye, so I’ve got this hat, right, and it’s a square hat because hats aren’t square most of the time. And that’s why I wear the square hat.” New Cd From David Shrigley, Worried Noodles, 2007". www.davidshrigley.com. Archived from the original on 6 December 2008 . Retrieved 30 January 2016.

David Shrigley's invitation to Lose Your Mind in Mexico". BBC Online. 7 January 2015 . Retrieved 27 January 2016. Discussing his plan with the Guardian in 2021, Shrigley said, with a hint of mischief: “I’ve acquired 5,000 copies of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, and I’m pulping them all. Then I’m making paper with it and on that paper I’m reprinting an edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Shrigley, regarded as one of the UK’s most consistently funny and perceptive visual artists, came up with the idea after seeing newspaper reports in 2017 about a charity shop pleading for no more copies of the wildly popular Dan Brown novel.

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Shrigley has created a variety of large-scale installations and sculptural pieces during his career, including, perhaps most famously, Really Good. The work—a distended hand making an exaggerated thumbs up symbol—won the prestigious Fourth Plinth commission in Trafalgar Square, erected in 2016 as a sardonic comment on the recent Brexit decision. Jason Mraz took the name of his album We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. from a work by Shrigley. [32] It is quite hard to define the essence of Shrigley’s art – until you visit his studio and realise he draws and paints all day long. Everything else is just about distributing the results – including in books. To my surprise, he didn’t edit Get Your Shit Together himself or select its images: even its title was chosen by the publisher. “Shit” wasn’t a word he expected a US publisher to put on the cover. Miller, Phil (27 January 2012). "A man of the people" (PDF). Herland Scotland . Retrieved 6 March 2019. In 2016, Shrigley’s work was part of a British Council touring exhibition. In the same month, he was showcased in the Liverpool Provocations event. Shrigley was nominated for the 2013 Turner Prize and awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Years Honours List 2020. Shrigley is collected by the Stephen Friedman Gallery (London), Anton Kern Gallery (New York), the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Tate (London) and the Royal Academy of Arts (London) among other institutions.