David Shrigley

David Shrigley

David Shrigley was born year 1968 in Macclesfield, Cheshire and likes to consider himself as a fine artist, he does alot of conceptual and minimalist art involving drawings, paintings, collages and photography. As well as this, Shrigley directs short animations and is also a musician.

This is one of Shrigley’s drawings, all of his drawings show creatures that take on strange forms and are usually accompanied by vague yet symbolic captions.

This is another drawing by Shrigley and could, potentially, be symbolic of selfishness, narrow- mindedness and general apathy towards danger and rules.

Shrigley has some of his greatest works exhibited din the Hayward Gallery where he has an entire wall covered in drawings. . . This exhibition was also documented in an episode of BBC 2’s Culture show hosted by Karl Pilkington.

Karl Pilkington commented on Shrigley’s work by saying “ some of these drawings look a bit rushed to me”

 


 But Shrigley suggests "being able to draw is neither here or there, it's like being in band and asked if you can the play guitar, you don't have to play the guitar that well"

Here is an example of Shrigley’s photography work, which usually consists of words being the main subject. And this particular piece can be seen as humorous and sarcastic.









 Here’s another example of Shrigley’s photography, and like in few of his other pieces he advertises an event but doesn’t say exactly where it is.