Its All Your Fault
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About This Work
David Shrigley’s *Its All Your Fault* distils the artist’s signature deadpan wit into a succinct, graphic statement that is at once disarming and incisive. Executed in Shrigley’s characteristically direct line and pared-back composition, the work leverages the visual economy of drawing to deliver a text-led punchline with the immediacy of signage and the intimacy of a private note. By weaponising simplicity—awkward mark-making, blunt language, and deliberate crudeness—Shrigley exposes the everyday mechanics of blame, guilt, and emotional manipulation embedded in contemporary communication. Situated within the lineage of British conceptual art and post-punk graphic culture, the piece reads as both social critique and absurdist mantra, resonating powerfully in an era of performative outrage and fractured discourse.
About the Artist
David John Shrigley (born 17 September 1968) is a British visual artist. He lived and worked in Glasgow, Scotland for 27 years before moving to Brighton, England in 2015. Shrigley first came to prominence in the 1990s for his distinct line drawings, which often deal with witty, surreal and darkly h...
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