David Shrigley

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DAVID SHRIGLEY: PASS THE SPOON
Foreword by David Shrigley, David Fennessy, Nicholas Bone.
HAYWARD PUBLISHING
ISBN: 9781853323072 | US $12.50
Pub Date: 5/31/2012
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DAVID SHRIGLEY: BRAIN ACTIVITY
Text by Cliff Lauson, Martin Herbert, Jonathan Monk. Interview by Dave Eggers.
HAYWARD PUBLISHING
ISBN: 9781853322976 | US $40.00
Pub Date: 3/31/2012
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DAVID SHRIGLEY: WORRIED NOODLES
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865603159 | US $49.95
Pub Date: 3/1/2008
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DAVID SHRIGLEY: WORRIED NOODLES, UGLY CUNTS, SONGBOOK
Artwork by David Shrigley.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865600288 | US $32.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2006
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DAVID SHRIGLEY
Essay by Frederic Paul. Interview by Neil Mulhoalland.
DOMAINE DE KERGUEHENNEC
ISBN: 9782906574021 | US $27.50
Pub Date: 9/2/2003
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DAVID SHRIGLEY
Essays by Amada Cruz and Russell Ferguson.
CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES, BARD COLLEGE
ISBN: 9781931493093 | US $24.95
Pub Date: 1/2/2003
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David Shrigley

David Shrigley: Pass the Spoon

A Sort-Of Opera About Cookery

Foreword by David Shrigley, David Fennessy, Nicholas Bone.
Published by Hayward Publishing

Pass the Spoon is the libretto for David Shrigley’s wildly popular “sort-of opera.” Here, Shrigley applies his mordant humor to this tale of a surreal cooking show gone awry. Described as “daft and instantly lovable” by The Guardian, Pass the Spoon features two TV chefs (June Spoon and Philip Fork), a manic-depressive alcoholic egg, a Latino banana and a host of other bizarre characters. This publication accompanies the artist’s first major retrospective at Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, and the opera’s first performance in London.

David Shrigley: Brain Activity

Text by Cliff Lauson, Martin Herbert, Jonathan Monk. Interview by Dave Eggers.
Published by Hayward Publishing

Best known for his wry and witty drawings, British artist David Shrigley has built up an artistic practice that, over the past two decades, has expanded well beyond drawing to include photography, sculpture, neon signs, animation, painting, printmaking, publishing and music. Shrigley finds humor in flat depictions of the inconsequential and the bizarre, qualities that he heightens through a deliberately limited technique. In this unusually complete look at the much-loved artist’s diverse approaches, Shrigley is revealed as a master of many media and many kinds of humor, from the black humor for which he is famed to caricature and more slapstick situations. With an immediate and accessible appeal to diverse audiences, Shrigley’s work offers an insightful commentary on the absurdities of human relationships. Published on the occasion of the artist’s first major survey show, at London’s Hayward Gallery, this beautifully produced volume includes a 7” vinyl picture-disc, featuring an exclusive recording by the artist.
David Shrigley was born in Macclesfield, England, in 1968, and studied Environmental Art at the Glasgow School of Art from 1988–1991. As well as authoring numerous books, he directed the video for Blur’s “Good Song” and for Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s “Agnes, Queen of Sorrow.” Between 2005 and 2009, he contributed a cartoon for the U.K. Guardian Weekend magazine every Saturday.

David Shrigley: Worried Noodles

Published by Walther König, Köln

This small artist’s book contains two CDs of music by bands like Dirty Projectors, David Byrne, Franz Ferdinand and Scout Niblett based on lyrics written by the artist David Shrigley. Shrigley’s drawings and lyrics are reproduced on the printed pages of the enclosed book; the discs contain 39 songs.

David Shrigley: Worried Noodles, Ugly Cunts, Songbook

Artwork by David Shrigley.
Published by Walther König, Köln

I didn't make a record. It would have been too difficult. It was easier not to make a record, David Shrigley writes on the LP sleeve covering his record-shaped book of song lyrics. Worried Noodles. Ugly Cunts. Songbook connects the three spheres of his work--art, books and music--with satisfying ease. His lyrics show a thriving will to understand, a simple, ambiguous poetry, ironic and honest.

David Shrigley

Essay by Frederic Paul. Interview by Neil Mulhoalland.
Published by Domaine de Kerguehennec

To paraphrase the essayist of this tidy volume, Glasgow is neither here nor there, but then neither is Paris or Milan or New York. If each strives to be the center of the world, they do it primarily by establishing their brand-name products as better than someone else's. The vernacular is universal and the particular is general. What has value in Glasgow therefore has value elsewhere. And thus David Shrigley creates drawings, sculptures, installations and photographs that are no less but no more than a heroic act because they inspire the memory of sensations that are incongruous, repressed and sometimes just simply unpleasant. Featuring a thorough sampling of recent work, a conversation with the artist and the aforementioned essay.

David Shrigley

Essays by Amada Cruz and Russell Ferguson.
Published by Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College

Best known for his childlike drawings, which have appeared in books and British newspapers, Glasgow-based artist David Shrigley also creates sculptures, photographs, and paintings, all employing black humor as a strategy for getting along in an absurd world. This publication accompanies an exhibition organized by the Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College.