I Did Not Ask To Be a Bird

Dimensions: 31 x 24 Inches / 60 x 80 cm Medium: Offset Lithograph on 200gsm matte Arctic Volume fine art paper. Provenance: Publishing details displayed upper right edge. Comes gallery certificate of authenticity. Edition: Open Edition Year: 2022 Condition: Excellent ABOUT THE ARTIST David Shrigley was born in 1968 in Macclesfield, UK. He lives and works in Brighton and Devon, UK. In January 2020 the artist was awarded the decoration of Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire or OBE.David Shrigley’s quick-witted drawings and hand-rendered texts are typically deadpan in their humour and reveal chance utterings like snippets of over-heard conversations. Recurring themes and thoughts pervade his storytelling, capturing deliberately two-dimensional views of the world, the perspective of aliens and monsters or the compulsive habits of an eavesdropper shouting out loud. While drawing is at the centre of his practice, Shrigley also works across an extensive range of media