8 Text-Based Artists to Collect
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Dry mounted onto a limited edition copy of Ants Have Sex In Your Beer as issued
Signature: Signed, dated and numbered on the flyleaf
David Shrigley finds meaning in snippets of text and overheard conversations. His crude and cartoonish ink drawings, usually exhibited salon-style, recall pages from the sketchbook of a cheeky adolescent. Tackling serious issues, such as unemployment and child welfare, as well as more absurd subjects, including sexual fantasies about a squirrel, his fragmented narratives can be both poignant and funny. In a 2011 exhibition, Shrigley included a dead stuffed kitten that stood on its hind legs carrying a hand-lettered protest sign that read, “I’M DEAD.”
British, b. 1968, Macclesfield, United Kingdom, based in Glasgow, United Kingdom