David Shrigley

David Shrigley OBE is a British visual artist born in 1968 in Macclesfield, Cheshire. He studied Environmental Art at the Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 1991, and spent nearly three decades in the city before relocating to Brighton in 2015.

Best known for his deadpan drawings that combine a rough, childlike aesthetic with dark humour and absurdist text, Shrigley also works across sculpture, animation, photography and music. His works are held in major collections including the Tate and the Museum of Modern Art. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2013 and in 2016 created Really Good, a seven metre high bronze thumbs up for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. He was awarded an OBE in 2020.

Photograph by Andy Miah via Wikimedia Commons