David Shrigley lives and works in Brighton, UK and has exhibited internationally since studying at Glasgow School of Art, with solo projects at Museo de arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; Power Station of Art & Design, Shanghai; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Hayward Gallery, London; Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts, San Francisco; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead; and many others.
Shrigley’s work has been described as having the ability to make one laugh and cry at the same time. Working across different media – drawing, sculpture, photography and painting – Shrigley’s output defies categorisation and, indeed, resists analysis. Err illustrates the moral and artistic conundrums at the heart of contemporary commentary, using drawings full of bleak humour, that confound the brain and unsettle the soul.
Nominated for the Turner Prize in 2013, Shrigley was commissioned to make a new work for the Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London (2016 – 2018) and has a major new commission opening July 2021, Joy, at the Wellcome Collection, London. Err was originally published in 1996, this is now the eighth edition, with an original cover designed by the artist.
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