How are you feeling?
Are you alright?
If you could open your mind like a handbag and show us what was inside, what would we see?
A bit of a mess?
Don't worry.
This is a self-help book.
You'll feel better very soon.
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 9780857867216
Number of pages: 208
Weight: 445 g
Dimensions: 196 x 149 x 22 mm
Edition: Main
Funny and profound and surprising all at the same time - Harry Hill
David Shrigley is probably the funniest gallery-type artist who ever lives - Dave Eggers
On the kink of his line Shrigley can shift effortlessly from pathos to paranoia. And his work is funny - very funny; his timing devastatingly effective - Will Self
Excellent . . . There's more to Shrigley than his knowing nods to high art - Guardian, on Brain Activity, at the Hayward Gallery
Shrigley deserves his immense popularity. For almost 20 years he has produced a ceaseless stream of ideas, observations, jokes and strange insights in the form of left-field drawings that have appeared in broadsheet newspapers, books and magazines as well as galleries. Deadpan, escapist and distinctively cack-handed, they make up a little world in themselves - Observer
Simultaneously unsettling and humorous - Designboom, on Brain Activity, at the Hayward Gallery
Shrigley mines a mordant, scatological seam, conjuring up the dark tradition of British humour that threw up Tony Hancock and Chris Morris. - The Times
[A] master of modern surrealism. - Evening Standard
With a casual gesture Shrigley points to that hideous shape whose name I've never known - and then he names it. And the name is profoundly, embarrassingly familiar. I'm laughing while frantically searching for a pen, so desperate to capture the feeling he has unearthed in me. - Miranda July
A must for fans of the absurd. - ES magazine
Half man, half legend. - The Skinny
An artist touched by comic genius and something like full-blown lunacy. - The Lady
David Shrigley messes with my head. - Moira Jeffreys, Scotland on Sunday
One of the most successful contemporary artists of his generation . . . Sketchy, darkly humorous, occasionally violent and always arch, his drawings and animations are stylistically naïve, and his sculptures are intentionally awkward - CityLife
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