When Shrigley's art strikes home, it does so by being believable, operating on a cusp between humour and horror, being in its way truthful, or at least plausible. His humour often relies on the unfunny, the bleak and deflated, the abject. What if someone's mental landscape was such that they really could describe themselves as "a vacant lot", as one of his paintings declares? We might feel less like laughing. What if Shrigley's art were serious about depicting the mental worlds of the damaged, the deranged, the psychotic or evil? Where might he take us? We might end up with something unbearably painful, and perhaps something great... He should make his art worse. Stop pissing about, in other words, and start pissing us off. - Guardian Link

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