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* Funny and profound and surprising all at the same time -- Harry Hill * David Shrigley is probably the funniest gallery-type artist who ever lives -- Dave Eggers * On the kink of his line Shrigley can shift effortlessly from pathos to paranoia. And his work is funny - very funny; his timing devastatingly effective -- Will Self * Excellent ... There's more to Shrigley than his knowing nods to high art Guardian, on Brain Activity, at the Hayward Gallery * Shrigley deserves his immense popularity. For almost 20 years he has produced a ceaseless stream of ideas, observations, jokes and strange insights in the form of left-field drawings that have appeared in broadsheet newspapers, books and magazines as well as galleries. Deadpan, escapist and distinctively cack-handed, they make up a little world in themselves Observer * Simultaneously unsettling and humorous Designboom, on Brain Activity, at the Hayward Gallery * [A] master of modern surrealism. Evening Standard * Shrigley mines a mordant, scatological seam, conjuring up the dark tradition of British humour that threw up Tony Hancock and Chris Morris. The Times * With a casual gesture Shrigley points to that hideous shape whose name I've never known - and then he names it. And the name is profoundly, embarrassingly familiar. I'm laughing while frantically searching for a pen, so desperate to capture the feeling he has unearthed in me. -- Miranda July * A must for fans of the absurd. ES magazine * David Shrigley messes with my head. -- Moira Jeffreys Scotland on Sunday * Half man, half legend. The Skinny * An artist touched by comic genius and something like full-blown lunacy. The Lady * One of the most successful contemporary artists of his generation ... Sketchy, darkly humorous, occasionally violent and always arch, his drawings and animations are stylistically naive, and his sculptures are intentionally awkward CityLife

Excellent ... There's more to Shrigley than his knowing nobs to high art - Guardian, on Brain Activity, at the Hayward Gallery

Funny and profound and surprising all at the same time -- Harry Hill David Shrigley is probably the funniest gallery-type artist who ever lives -- Dave Eggers On the kink of his line Shrigley can shift effortlessly from pathos to paranoia. And his work is funny - very funny; his timing devastatingly effective -- Will Self Excellent ... There's more to Shrigley than his knowing nods to high art * Guardian, on Brain Activity, at the Hayward Gallery * Shrigley deserves his immense popularity. For almost 20 years he has produced a ceaseless stream of ideas, observations, jokes and strange insights in the form of left-field drawings that have appeared in broadsheet newspapers, books and magazines as well as galleries. Deadpan, escapist and distinctively cack-handed, they make up a little world in themselves * Observer * Simultaneously unsettling and humorous * Designboom, on Brain Activity, at the Hayward Gallery * [A] master of modern surrealism. * Evening Standard * Shrigley mines a mordant, scatological seam, conjuring up the dark tradition of British humour that threw up Tony Hancock and Chris Morris. * The Times * With a casual gesture Shrigley points to that hideous shape whose name I've never known - and then he names it. And the name is profoundly, embarrassingly familiar. I'm laughing while frantically searching for a pen, so desperate to capture the feeling he has unearthed in me. -- Miranda July A must for fans of the absurd. * ES magazine * David Shrigley messes with my head. -- Moira Jeffreys * Scotland on Sunday * Half man, half legend. * The Skinny * An artist touched by comic genius and something like full-blown lunacy. * The Lady * One of the most successful contemporary artists of his generation ... Sketchy, darkly humorous, occasionally violent and always arch, his drawings and animations are stylistically naive, and his sculptures are intentionally awkward * CityLife *

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David Shrigley was born in Macclesfield in 1968 and studied at Glasgow School of Art. He has worked as a sculptor, photographer and 'environment artist' and, most famously, as a cartoonist and illustrator. His work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, at the MoMA in New York, and in Paris, Berlin, Melbourne and beyond. He has published over twenty books, and has animated a music video for Blur and produced another for Bonny Prince Billy. His work has also been profiled in a documentary for Channel 4 and he was recently invited to hold a major, four-month retrospective at the Hayward Gallery in London. What the Hell are You Doing? The Essential David Shrigley was published by Canongate in 2010. He lives and works in Glasgow.

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