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SH by DAVID SHRIGLEY

Creator: DAVID SHRIGLEY
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

Description
SHRIGLEY, DAVID
SH
Stock Code 99755
£1,200
'I'm actually trying to make things that are accessible and enjoyable to others,' Shrigley has said. Like a compulsive doodler with an infectiously mordant sense of humor, the Glasgow-based artist makes deceptively simple-looking drawings and, to a lesser extent, paintings. Complete with childlike stick figures and crudely scrawled texts, they speak to the paranoid fantasies and everyday pathos of adulthood.

Shrigley, who is highly prolific, has compiled many of his images into artist's books and other printed formats that can circulate to large audiences—such as series of etchings and, most recently, these woodcuts. In the woodcut at left, Shrigley conjures up the cartoon language of sleep; his repeated Z's also make a typically self-deprecating comment about the possible 'snooze factor' of his art or, perhaps, other types of art involving similarly repetitive geometries, such as Minimalism. Composed of boldly graphic slashes, Shrigley's Z's suggest the sound of sawing through wood, the by which this image was made. 'I liked the physicality of cutting the [wood] plates,' the artist has said. 'It was very brutal and slightly haphazard, perhaps a little crude, which I think makes the images sit comfortably alongside my drawings.'

Woodcut, 2005, on wove paper, signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 20 in pencil, published by Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, 59.7 x 39.7 cm. (23.5 x 15.6 in.)

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	New
Styles / Movements:	Contemporary
Dealer Reference #:	99755
Incollect Reference #:	639064

Dimensions

W.	15.6 in;	H.	23.5 in;
W.	39.62 cm;	H.	59.69 cm;

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Based in the heart of Mayfair in London, we specialise in prints and original works on paper across a broad range of subjects, from antique prints to modern pochoir plates, as well as photographs from vintage photography to modern art photography.

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