The work, I suppose, is made in the editing, whereby I make literally hundreds of drawings, and then a much smaller percentage of those become the finished work.
David ShrigleyI like comedy but I guess I don't think [my art] is that funny, either. It's too dark and a bit weird in places to be genuinely, uniformly hilarious and function as comedy.
David ShrigleyIf the work jells a little bit in terms of being placed in the oeuvre, I don't care - as long as it works.
David ShrigleyI don't really want to tell jokes about trivia; I'd kind of rather tell jokes about things like life and death.
David Shrigley