I like making books but I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing. Perhaps I just try to arrange a bunch of seemingly random drawings into something that makes a vague narrative sense. Sometimes it sort of makes sense, sometimes it doesn't.
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 ShrigleyI guess I just always want to surprise myself and say something that I'm not really quite sure where it came from, and it sort of makes sense and has a kind of profundity to it. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't.
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 Shrigley