When I started my degree, I used to visit almost every art show I could find, regardless of whether or not I thought I might like it. After a huge amount of time spent feeling ignorant for not understanding or 'getting' the work on offer I realised something. It wasn't that I couldn't understand the work but it simply wasn't engaging me in the way I was looking for. I like to love, laugh and cry, these are real human emotions that I expect to be evoked when looking at art. When looking at David Shrigley's retrospective , 'Brain Activity', at the Hayward Gallery, I walked around with a smile constantly on my face, I felt joy and happiness. People that talk Shrigley down for his child-like style or lack of process simply miss the point. He is conveying his ideas in the most natural way, amplifying his views on society by presenting them in this regressed form, it only makes the point stronger by having less to think about and then adds a level of irony.
