The art of death

Charles 4 Comments
Charles

 

We’re huge fans of Poppy Mardall here at the GFG-Batesville Tower. Just you watch her, she’s going to go far (when she gets started, that is; she launches in a couple of months’ time; we’ll be sure to tell you all about it).

Poppy went to the art on Sunday, to the David Shrigley show at the Hayward. Shrigley’s a pretty sardonic kind guy and, to her unsurprise, Poppy found some deathy stuff which she snapped on her phone and sent along to cheer us all up. As Poppy observes, “I think artists know a lot about death because they allow themselves to think about it.”

More about David Shrigley here  here and  here  People get Shrigley tattoos. Look out for them on his website. 

Thank you, Poppy! 

 

 

 

 

4 Comments

  1. Charles

    The tombstone/shopping list – brilliant.

    “Er, what, me? Now? But I was just on the way to the shops, I mean, it’s my turn to do supper, and I – oh. I see. Now.”

    or a kind of reverse memento mori – the wonderful ordinariness of daily life this day now, right up to the moment when…
    so, a memento vivo.

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