DAVID SHRIGLEY : BRAIN ACTIVITY

1 Feb-13 May 2012

Overview

This is the first major survey in the UK of works by Glasgow-based artist David Shrigley. Spanning the upper galleries, the exhibition covers the full range of Shrigley’s diverse work from the past two decades, including drawing, animation, painting, photography, and sculpture. Shrigley is best known for his pared down drawings (which he has published in numerous books) that make wry and often dark observations on the absurdities of life, death and everything in between. To coincide with the exhibition, Southbank Centre will present the London premiere of Pass the Spoon (5 & 6 May, Queen Elizabeth Hall), a ‘sort-of opera’ by David Shrigley, composer David Fennessy and director Nicholas Bone, featuring singing vegetables, a giant butcher, an ambitious banana and a panic-stricken pair of celebrity chefs.