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David Shrigley: ‘It’s really inspiring to see Brighton’s Corn Exchange being recreated at a time when the arts are being cut.’ Photograph: Karen Robinson/The Guardian
The darkly comic artist on being starstruck by Pavement, dining mid-river and a football team he can really get behind
The Turner prize-shortlisted artist David Shrigley was born in Cheshire in 1968 and studied at Glasgow School of Art. Known for his deadpan style, his work spans drawing, sculpture, installations and music videos. In 2016, he put a 10-metre-high bronze thumbs up on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth. An exhibition of Shrigley’s work – Mainly Multiples, Some Paintings & Other Stuff Too – is at Hang-Up Gallery, London N1 until 27 January. He lives in Brighton with his wife.
