Just Fly Away Try Not To Look
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About This Work
David Shrigley’s *Just Fly Away Try Not To Look* distils his singular blend of deadpan humour and existential unease into a deceptively simple image-text composition. Rendered with his characteristically spare, deliberately unrefined line, the work stages a direct encounter between drawing and handwritten caption—an economy of means that heightens its conceptual bite. The phrase reads as both instruction and evasion, suggesting escape, denial, and the uneasy freedom of looking away. Shrigley’s pared-back aesthetic recalls the immediacy of a note or doodle, yet its precision of timing and tone reveals a sophisticated understanding of how language shapes perception. Visually arresting in its blunt clarity, the piece exemplifies Shrigley’s cultural significance: an artist who transforms everyday anxieties into sharp, widely resonant contemporary allegories.
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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