Description
How are you feeling?
Are you alright?
If you could open your mind like a handbag and show us what was inside, what would we see?
A bit of a mess?
Don't worry.
This is a self-help book.
You'll feel better very soon.
A profound, unsettling and very funny new book from the cult artist, nominated for the Turner Prize 2013
About the Author
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. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2013 and 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 invited to hold a major, four-month retrospective at the Hayward Gallery in London. He lives and works in Glasgow.
Reviews
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 * *
Shrigley mines a mordant, scatological seam, conjuring up the dark tradition of British humour that threw up Tony Hancock and Chris Morris. * * The Times * *
[A] master of modern surrealism. * * Evening Standard * *
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 * *
Half man, half legend. * * The Skinny * *
An artist touched by comic genius and something like full-blown lunacy. * * The Lady * *
David Shrigley messes with my head. -- Moira Jeffreys * * Scotland on Sunday * *
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 * *
Book Information
ISBN 9780857867216
Author David Shrigley
Format Hardback
Page Count 208
Imprint Canongate Books
Publisher Canongate Books
Weight(grams) 450g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 150mm * 21mm
