David Shrigley - Brain Activity

The Arts Desk“It made me think, it made me consider what art is, or isn’t...” What these pieces do is take the strange and the beautiful and make them cosy. It’s a sort of anti-art...

this is london“A terrific economy of expression...” The drawings - his purest and best form of expression - are awkward in line and accompanied by a childlike scrawl, a style whose skewedness immaculately matches his abject thoughts...

The Independent“It may not be art at all...” Each work is a one-liner, and the line is always the same: Am I anything more than I seem? As you walk around his Hayward show, you have the sense of being gently played with...

The Observer“Shrigley deserves his immense popularity...” Some of the jokes fall flat, while others repeat a trope. The wall paintings are hopeless: tiny ideas vastly overinflated; in general, the longer Shrigley's films, the less they succeed...

The Telegraph“The show is what it is: irreverent, mischievous, funny, and charming...” Many Shrigley fans visiting the Hayward, which is presenting his largest ever survey in Britain, may be surprised to discover the full range of his work — not as a cartoonist, but as a fine artist...