David Shrigley 'Let The Sunshine In' Print Release Details

Artist: David Shrigley
Title: Let The Sunshine In
Medium: Multi Color Screen Print
Size: 56 x 76 cm
Edition: 125
Price: UNSURE

*application on Wednesday November 12th, 2025

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David Shrigley is a British artist who turns deadpan humor into sharp social commentary through crude drawings, sculptures, and films. Born in Macclesfield in 1968, he studied environmental art at Glasgow School of Art and stayed in the city that shaped his wry outlook. Using cheap pens and scavenged paper, he sketches wonky dogs, anxious vegetables, and half finished self portraits that speak in blocky capital letters: “I AM PRETTY SURE SOMETHING IS WRONG.” The childlike line belies surgical timing; a single misplaced word can flip laughter into dread. Shrigley’s world is one where balloons beg not to be inflated and gravestones read “DEAD DEAD DEAD,” yet empathy glows beneath the absurdity. He extends the joke into three dimensions: a giant bronze thumbs up titled “Really Good” stood in Trafalgar Square, while taxidermy dogs clutch placards demanding “DEATH TO AMERICA.” These works mock authority while exposing human fragility.

Nominated for the 2013 Turner Prize, he filled the gallery with animatronic figures performing futile tasks, their mechanical clatter echoing everyday despair. Commercial success followed, yet he still mails fake flyers and leaves cryptic notes in library books, insisting art should interrupt routine like a sudden sneeze. Recent projects include directing the dark animated film “The Spine of Night,” designing a line of nonsensical greeting cards, and recording spoken word albums delivered in his trademark monotone. Through it all Shrigley remains a philosophical prankster, proving that a badly drawn cat can ask the biggest questions about meaning, mortality, and why we keep trying.