A dry sense of humour, bright colours, whimsical characters and ironic captions – who could it be but leading printmaker David Shrigley. The artist is beloved for his intuitive sense of style, a recognisable balance of loosely drawn animals, figures and objects with witty captions that always evoke a laugh.
This November, Hang Up will present a solo exhibition of over 30 works by Shrigley, including a series of limited-edition prints, colour and monochrome originals, ceramics and posters priced at just £295.
Having dealt in his work for nearly a decade, Hang-Up is excited to bring together this full collection for the first time ever and host an exhibition of an artist who is very dear to the gallery. The unmissable exhibition will celebrate Shrigley’s rich and playful style, that often borders on the absurd, as he comments on modern society in his own unique and distinctly unfiltered style.
David Shrigley: Mainly Multiples, Some Paintings & Other Stuff Too 18th November 2022 – 27th January 2023, Private View 17th November 2022 | 6-9pm Hang-Up Gallery 10D Branch Place, Hoxton, London N1 5PH
About the artist
British artist David Shrigley is best known for his distinctive drawing style and works that make satirical comments on everyday situations and human interactions.
David Shrigley was born in 1968 in Macclesfield, UK. He lives and works in Brighton, UK.
David Shrigley’s quick-witted drawings and hand-rendered texts are typically deadpan in their humour and reveal chance utterings like snippets of over-heard conversations. Recurring themes and thoughts pervade his storytelling, capturing deliberately two-dimensional views of the world, the perspective of aliens and monsters or the compulsive habits of an eavesdropper shouting out loud. While drawing is at the centre of his practice, Shrigley also works across an extensive range of media including sculpture, large-scale installation, animation, painting, photography and music. Shrigley consistently seeks to widen his audience by operating outside the gallery sphere, including producing artist publications and creating collaborative music projects.
His digital animations such as ‘Headless Drummer’ and ‘The Artist’ demonstrate what Shrigley calls ‘the economy of telling stories’, delivering a deftly crafted mix of dark and light through the simplest of forms. In his sculptural works, rendered in materials such as bronze and ceramic, the artist makes physical some of his more curious and eccentric propositions by transforming found objects or by playing with their scale. Taking Lewis Carroll’s perspective of Wonderland, Shrigley enlarges objects and imbues them with curious proportions. @davidshrigley
