Sometimes commercial galleries ask for particular work to sell, but I try not to be bossed around by them. I didn't become an artist to get bossed around.
David ShrigleyI don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.
David ShrigleyI am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work.
David ShrigleyI never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug.
David Shrigley