Enjoy Each Moment
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About This Work
David Shrigley’s *Enjoy Each Moment* distils the artist’s signature blend of deadpan wit and graphic immediacy into a deceptively direct message. Executed in his characteristically spare, hand-drawn line and pared-back composition, the work leverages the visual language of the everyday—part cartoon, part public notice—to expose how contemporary culture packages wellbeing as instruction. Shrigley’s intentionally unpolished mark-making and concise text create a productive tension between sincerity and scepticism, inviting viewers to question whether optimism can be commanded, purchased, or performed. Positioned within his broader practice of text-based drawings and prints, *Enjoy Each Moment* resonates as a sharp, culturally attuned commentary on self-help rhetoric, attention economy, and the quiet anxieties of modern life.
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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