David Shrigley

David Shrigley (b. 1968, Macclesfield) works across drawing, sculpture, animation, photography, and printed matter. His practice is built around a deliberately blunt graphic language — hand-lettered text, simple line drawings, deadpan humour — that operates at the edge of the absurd and the mundane.

Since the early 1990s, Shrigley has produced a sustained body of small publications, postcards, posters, and multiples that circulate outside the conventional gallery object. These printed works are not secondary to his practice: they are one of its primary forms, carrying his work through informal, accessible channels and into everyday life.

Items here include artist books, pocket publications, exhibition posters, and related printed ephemera.

  • Artist book, David Shrigley, Man in a Room, Blue Q, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 2007. Miniature staple-bound booklet, 7.5 × 5.5 cm, 44 pages. Front cover: green ground, hand-lettered black text reading ‘MAN IN A ROOM’ with underline, ‘BY D. SHRIGLEY’ below. New old stock, unopened in original wrap. Artist book interior spread, David Shrigley, Man in a Room, Blue Q, 2007. Left page: hand-lettered text reading ‘CASTING IDEAS / VOICE OF MAN: SIR RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH / VOICE OF LADY: SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER / VOICE OF RAT: A CHILD / VOICE OF GOD: COMPUTER’. Right page: line drawing of figure lying in bed. Light toning visible at centre fold.

    David Shrigley — Man in a Room, Blue Q, 2007

    David Shrigley — Man in a Room, Blue Q, 2007