Editing David Shrigley (section)

==Early life and education==
Shrigley was born 17 September 1968 in [[Macclesfield]], [[Cheshire]].<ref name="NGC">{{cite web|url=https://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artist.php?iartistid=48089|title=David Shrigley}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.macclesfield-express.co.uk/news/local-news/david-shrigley-see-work-really-6685138|title=Thumbs up for Macclesfield artist|first=Stuart|last=Greer|date=7 February 2014}}</ref> He moved with his parents and sister to [[Oadby]], [[Leicestershire]] when he was two years old.<ref name="t-20090304">{{cite news|last=Gatti|first=Tom|title=David Shrigley: the joker with a deadly punchline|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/david-shrigley-the-joker-with-a-deadly-punchline-9b6zldf50r2|newspaper=[[The Times]]|date=4 March 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202084204/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/visualarts/article2423239.ece|archive-date=2 February 2016}} [http://www.stephenfriedman.com/media/_shrig-2009-the-times-tom-gatti-4-march1281622779.pdf Alt URL]{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="sc-20100412">{{cite news|last=Ramaswamy|first=Chitra|title=Interview: David Shrigley, artist|url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/interview_david_shrigley_artist_1_475231|newspaper=The Scotsman|date=12 April 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618054426/https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/interview-david-shrigley-artist-1-475231|archive-date=18 June 2018}} [http://www.stephenfriedman.com/media/_shrig-2010-scotsman-apr1281622718.pdf Alt URL]{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He attended [[Beauchamp College]] in Oadby.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kataria |first1=Sonia |title=Renowned artist back to school with giant mantis |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c14l0jpv7pvo |access-date=29 October 2024 |work=BBC News |date=29 October 2024}}</ref> He took the Art and Design Foundation course at [[Leicester Polytechnic]] in 1987,<ref name=gf>{{cite web|last=Fisher|first=Glenn|title=What's with all the Funny Stuff?|url=http://www.davidshrigley.com/articles/glennfisher.html|publisher=David Shrigley|year=2005|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060426055755/http://davidshrigley.com/articles/glennfisher.html|archive-date=26 April 2006}}</ref><ref name=bk>{{cite web|title=Interview with Bill Kenny, 2003|url=http://www.davidshrigley.com/articles/student_interview.html|publisher=David Shrigley|year=2003|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111011062137/http://davidshrigley.com/articles/student_interview.html|archive-date=11 October 2011}}</ref> and then studied environmental art<ref name="t-20090304"/> at [[Glasgow School of Art]] from 1988 to 1991.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/11190765/David-Shrigley-on-his-childhood-Adam-and-the-Ants-and-Glasgow-School-of-Art.html|title=David Shrigley on his childhood, Adam and the Ants and Glasgow School of Art|date=31 October 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13101854.NOT_DEADLY_SERIOUS__Glasgow_School_of_Art_graduate_David_Shrigley_s_macabre_humour_has_seen_his_show_at_London_s_Hayward_Gallery_shortlisted_for_the_Turner_Prize_/|title=Not Deadly Serious: Glasgow School of Art graduate David Shrigley's macabre humour has seen his show at London's Hayward Gallery shortlisted for the Turner Prize.|date=26 April 2013 }}</ref> Talking about his final degree show, Shrigley later told ''[[The Guardian]]'''s Becky Barnicoat, "I thought my degree show was brilliant, but the people who were marking it didn't. I got a 2:2. They didn't appreciate my genius.[…] I didn't sell anything at the show – it was 1991, before the [[Young British Artists|YBAs]]. There wasn't a precedent for people selling work that wasn't figurative painting".<ref name="The Guardian 23 June 2015">{{cite news |last= Barnicoat |first= Becky |title= Before they were famous: art stars on their final degree shows |url= https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jun/23/before-they-were-famous-art-stars-final-degree-shows-tracey-emin-david-shrigley| date= 23 June 2015|newspaper= [[The Guardian]] |location=London| access-date=26 January 2016 }}</ref> Before becoming a full-time artist, Shrigley worked as a gallery guide at the [[Centre for Contemporary Arts|CCA]] in Glasgow, where he would use the gallery's equipment to self-publish a series of books of his drawings.<ref>{{cite news |last=Miller |first=Phil |date=27 January 2012 |title=A man of the people |url=https://cloudfront.stephenfriedman.com/files/THE_HERALD_-_PHIL_MILLER_8_shrig_the-herald_phil-miller_27-jan-20121342109461.pdf |work=Herland Scotland |access-date=6 March 2019}}</ref>