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David Shrigley Born 17 September 1968
Macclesfield, EnglandField Drawing, Sculpture, Photography, Painting, Animation, Music David Shrigley is a British visual artist.
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Life and career
Shrigley was born in Macclesfield on 17 September 1968, the younger of two children born to Rita (née Bowring) and Joseph Shrigley. Shrigley grew up in Oadby, Leicestershire, England. He attended City of Leicester Polytechnic's Art and Design course in 1987-1988, and subsequently studied Environmental Art at the Glasgow School of Art from 1988-1991.
Although he works in various media, he is best known for his mordantly humorous cartoons released in softcover books or postcard packs.
Like the poet Ivor Cutler, Shrigley finds humour in flat depictions of the inconsequential, the unavailing and the bizarre – although he is far fonder of violent or otherwise disquieting subject matter. Shrigley's work has two of the characteristics often encountered in outsider art – an odd viewpoint, and (in some of his work) a deliberately limited technique. His freehand line is often weak, which jars with his frequent use of a ruler; his forms are often very crude; and annotations in his drawings are poorly executed and frequently contain crossings-out (In authentic outsider art, the artist has no choice but to produce work in his or her own way, even if that work is unconventional in content and inept in execution. In contrast, it is likely that Shrigley has chosen his style and range of subject matter for comic effect).
As well as authoring several books, he directed the video for Blur's "Good Song" and also for Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's "Agnes, Queen of Sorrow". Since 2005, he has contributed a cartoon for The Guardian's Weekend magazine every Saturday. He is represented in Paris by the Yvon Lambert Gallery,[1] and in 2005 designed a London Underground leaflet cover.
Shrigley co-directed an animate!-commissioned film with award-winning director Chris Shepherd called Who I Am And What I Want, based on Shrigley's book of the same title. Kevin Eldon voiced its main character, Pete. He also produced a series of drawings and T-shirt designs for the 2006 Triptych festival, a Scottish music festival lasting for three to four days in three cities. He has also designed twelve different covers for Deerhoof's 2007 record, Friend Opportunity.[1]
The name of Jason Mraz's third studio album We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. is a reference to a piece of art by Shrigley which caught Mraz's attention while he was travelling through Scotland.[2]
Shrigley is a lifelong supporter of Nottingham Forest FC.[citation needed]
Shrigley is represented by Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Music
In 2006, Shrigley's first spoken-word album Shrigley Forced To Speak With Others was released by Azuli Records. In October 2007, Tomlab released Worried Noodles, a double-CD of artists including David Byrne, Islands, Liars, Grizzly Bear, Mount Eerie, R. Stevie Moore and Final Fantasy putting Shrigley's 2005 book of the same name to music. Moore went on to record an entire album of new songs set to Shrigley's Worried Noodles lyrics called Shrigley Field.
His spoken-word readings are used on the Late Night Tales series of recordings, with a track from Shrigley closing each album.
Solo exhibitions
2010
- Museum M, Leuven, Belgium
2009
- Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz
2008
- Museum Ludwig, Cologne
- BQ, Cologne
- Anton Kern Gallery, NYC
- Baltic, Gateshead, England
- CASM, Barcelona
2007
- CAB, Burgos, Spain
- Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
- Malmö Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden
- Stephen Friedman, London
2006
- Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
- DCA, Dundee
2005
- BQ Galerie, Cologne
- Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
- Anton Kern Gallery, New York
2004
- Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
- Stephen Friedman, London
- Francesca Pia, Bern
2003
- Galerie Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
- BQ Galerie, Cologne
- Kunsthaus, Zurich
2002
- Anton Kern Gallery, New York
- Domaine de Kerguehennec, France*
- Camden Arts Centre, London
- UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2001
- Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
- CCS Museum, Bard College, New York*
- Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
2000
- Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
1999
- Francesca Pia, Bern
- Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
- Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
1998
- Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
- Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam
- Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
1997
- Hermetic Gallery, Milwaukee
- CCA, Glasgow
- Francesca Pia, Bern
- Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
- Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
- Photographers’ Gallery, London
1996
- Catalyst Arts, Belfast
1995
- Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Publications
2011
- What The Hell Are You Doing?: The Essential David Shrigley, W. W. Norton & Company (forthcoming)
2009
- Red Book, Redstone Press
2008
- Hand, BQ, Cologne
- Grip, Redstone Press (new edition)
2007
- Ants Have Sex In Your Beer, Redstone Press/Chronicle
2006
- This Is A Paper Trinket For You To Wear, Bywater Bros. Editions, Toronto
- Worried Noodles (The Empty Sleeve), Tomlab, Cologne
2005
- Photographs With Text, BQ, Cologne
- The Book of Shrigley, Redsone Press/ Chronicle Books
2004
- Blocked Path, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen.
- Let’s Wrestle, Redstone Press, London.
- Rules, Redstone Press, London (book of postcards).
- Kill Your Pets, Redstone Press, London.
- Kill Your Pets, Revolver, Frankfurt.
- Joy, Chronicle Books, San Francisco.
2003
- Yellow Bird With Worm, Kunsthaus Zurich.
- Who I Am And What I Want, Redstone Press, London.
- Leotard, BQ, Cologne.
- Joy, Redstone Press, London (book of postcards).
- Evil Thoughts, Chronicle Books, San Francisco (book of postcards).
2002
- Human Achievement, Redstone Press, London.
- Evil Thoughts, Redstone Press, London (book of postcards).
2001
- Do Not Bend, Redstone Press, London.
2000
- Grip, Pocketbooks, Edinburgh.
- Hard Work, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen.
1999
- The Beast is Near, Redstone Press, London.
- Fel, Rudins, Sweden (Swedish translation of Err).
1998
- Why We Got The Sack From The Museum, Redstone Press, London.
- To Make Meringue You Must Beat The Egg Whites Until They Look Like This, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen.
- Centre Parting, The Little Cockroach Press, Toronto.
- Blank Page and Other Pages, The Modern Institute, Glasgow.
1996
- Drawings Done Whilst On Phone To Idiot, The Armpit Press. Glasgow.
- Err, Bookworks, London.
- Let Not These Shadows Fall Upon Thee, Tramway, Glasgow.
1995
- Enquire Within, Armpit Press, Glasgow.
1994
- Blanket Of Filth, The Armpit Press, Glasgow.
1992
- Merry Eczema, Black Rose, Glasgow.
1991
- Slug Trails, Black Rose, Glasgow.
Contributions
2008 Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International [2]
References
External links
- David Shrigley at Stephen Friedman Gallery
- http://www.davidshrigley.com/
- mudam.lu/shrigley
- ISBN 0-8118-5530-9 Who I Am And What I Want
- animate!: David Shrigley biography
- http://www.whoiamandwhatiwant.com/
- David Shrigley at Schäfer Grafisk Værksted
- Cool Hunting's Absolut Art Video
- http://www.redstonepress.co.uk
Categories:- Alumni of De Montfort University
- Living people
- 1968 births
- People from Macclesfield
- People from Oadby
- Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art
- British artists
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