Swan Thing (2023)
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Counter Editions are thrilled to announce the upcoming launch of Swan Thing (2023), a limited edition ceramic sculpture by David Shrigley. Over the years Shrigley has created a series of swan-based artworks which all share the same tragic-comic form. Retaining the humour and absurdity of previous iterations, Swan Thing (2023) is distinguished by being his most luxurious to date, with each white porcelain bird having a unique face hand-drawn by the artist, giving every sculpture its own distinct facial expression, ensuring that no two pieces are alike.
David Shrigley (b. 1968 in Macclesfield, UK) 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.
While drawing is oftern at the centre of his practice, Shrigley works across an extensive range of other media including sculpture, large-scale installation, animation, painting, photography and music. Shrigley's hilarious and disturbing doodles, sculptures, and anecdotes depict the world as an absurd place. From the childlike renderings and messy handwriting of his drawings to the spontaneous "public" projects documented in photographs and his playful sculptures, his work is anti-monumental and whimsical, but inherently sincere.
Shrigley was a Turner Prize nominee in 2013, following his major mid-career retrospective ‘Brain Activity' at the Hayward Gallery, London. In September 2016, his monumental sculpture ‘Really Good' was unveiled in Trafalgar Square, London for the Fourth Plinth Commission. The artist was commissioned to transform the Gallery at sketch, London in 2018 as part of a long-term programme of artist-conceived restaurants. From 2015 to 2018 the British Council-organised exhibition 'Lose Your Mind' travelled to six venues including Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China; Storage by Hyundai Card in Seoul, Korea and Instituto-Cultural-Cabañas in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Other solo exhibitions include those at: Jealous Gallery, London (2024); Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark (2024); National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia (2024); Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, Switzerland (2022); K Museum of Contemporary Art, South Korea (2021) and Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark (2020).
