David Shrigley
David Shrigley: Brain Activity
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David Shrigley: Brain Activity offers an unusually complete look at the artist's diverse creative approach. Featuring an interview by writer Dave Eggers and newly commissioned essays by Martin Herbert and Cliff Lauson, this book also features a new 7-inch picture disc featuring exclusive recorded original spoken word material created specifically for the book and presented in screen-printed packaging.
- Publisher: Hayward Gallery Publishing
- Includes 7-inch picture disc in screen-printed packaging
- 2012
David Shrigley
Shrigley is a Glasgow-based artist whose drawing style evolved as a reaction to the seriousness of the art he was expected to produce at art school. He bases his work on intuition rather than long-winded theory. Shrigley is also a self-editor, ripping up whatever he thinks doesn't work into teeny-weeny pieces so that they can't be recycled. He holds onto the things that surprise him and make him laugh. David Shrigley is a British artist who has come to prominence through his drawings, publications and sculptural works. His drawings have a kind of throwaway beauty peopled as they are with monster children, idiots, aliens, bad parents and full of twisted lists and exchanges.