Bare-faced fun as nude Tate life model leaves after long standing date
Known for his crude, dark, thoughtful and hilarious cartoons, Shrigley also makes videos and sculptures, often with a surreal but affecting one-liner, such as in his most famous work, a stuffed dog holding a sign that says simply ‘I’m dead.’
There was much made of the nude, gangly, out of proportion male model, with blinking eyes and a propensity for emptying his bladder in a steel bucket nailed to the floor at his feet, some dismissing it as funny, others as crude. If the point of the annual Tate spectacle is to generate discussion then Shrigley’s entry won hands down.
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Hide Ad‘Barely’ an hour on display an hour photographs of the nude, but silent, ‘peeing man’ were all over the media. But it seems that only now that the Tate exhibition has closed has the tall, pale poser proclaimed in an instagram, which reads: “Thanks for all the fantastic drawings I had a wonderful time in Derry x”.
It seems Shrigley’s life model may not have found any clothes but did finally find his voice.