David Shrigley | I Am The Jug You Are The Glass

David Shrigley

I Am The Jug You Are The Glass

Copenhagen, Denmark: Shrig Shop, 2022

320 pp., 15.5 x 21 x 4 cm., hardcover

Edition of 5000

Shrigley’s first book self-published through the Shrig Shop, is a black and white The book is a black and white collection of over 300 drawings made in the last five years. It is has been published in a limited edition of 5000 books, never to be printed again.

“Publishing with a bigger publisher is a bit of a pain in the arse because you have to do it on their terms and jump through a lot of hoops. I always end up really surprised at what people choose. They don’t choose the things that I think are brilliant and amazing. [...]

[The book form] is a way to give meaning to lots of individual parts, which are then presented as a whole. That’s what I like about it. It is about whatever the reader thinks it’s about.

I don’t know if I necessarily have a lot to say, but I have a need to say it, whatever it is. There’s definitely a difference there.” 

- David Shrigley