Be Kind To Everyone
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About This Work
In *Be Kind To Everyone*, David Shrigley distils an expansive ethical instruction into a characteristically blunt, disarming image-text proposition. Rendered with his deliberately unpolished line and deadpan typography, the work leverages the aesthetics of the handmade—awkward, immediate, and insistently human—to question how sincerity survives in a culture of slogans. Shrigley’s pared-back composition heightens the visual impact: the message reads as both earnest appeal and quietly comic impossibility, inviting viewers to measure their own assumptions against its simplicity. By fusing humour with moral unease, the piece exemplifies Shrigley’s ability to make contemporary anxiety legible—and strangely tender.
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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