David Shrigley
British visual artist
Walking the dog on a beach in Dorset with my wife.
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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Probably the curtain call of my final performance when I played King Lear.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2024 source ↗
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When my album was made in June.
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Conflict aversion.
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Creating something and feeling proud of it.
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