David Shrigley was born in Macclesfield in 1968 and studied at Glasgow School of Art. He has
worked as a sculptor photographer and 'environment artist' and most famously as a cartoonist
and illustrator. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2013 and his work has been exhibited
at the Tate Modern in London at the MoMA in New York and in Paris Berlin Melbourne and
beyond. He has published over twenty books and has animated a music video for Blur and
produced another for Bonny Prince Billy. His work has also been profiled in a documentary for
Channel 4 and he was invited to hold a major four-month retrospective at the Hayward Gallery
in London. He lives and works in Glasgow.
