After travelling through London and Melbourne’s NGV, David Shrigley’s Tennis Ball Exchange is landing in Fremantle!
Visitors are invited to bring an old ball to swap with a new one from the numerous shelves that line the walls. Gradually the rows of yellow spheres are replaced with misshapen and discoloured forms that represent the joy of trade.
Be a part of this interactive installation by contributing a ball and trading it for another to take home with you. Over time, the shelves of fresh new tennis balls will be replaced by Fremantle’s donated ones – scribbled over, slobbered on, branded and bedazzled. Make your mark with a one-of-kind contribution.
About David Shrigley
British artist David Shrigley OBE is known for his darkly humourous artworks which reflect on the banality and absurdity of everyday life. David Shrigley was born in Macclesfield, England, in 1968, and lives and works in Brighton, UK. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 1991.
Shrigley has published more than forty books, including Weak Messages Create Bad Situations: A Manifesto (2014) and was a finalist in the 2013 Turner Prize following his critically acclaimed retrospective exhibition Brain Activity at the Hayward Gallery, London, in 2012.
He was the subject of the solo exhibition David Shrigley: Life and Life Drawing at the NGV in 2014-15 and more than 200 original drawings by Shrigley were set within the heart of London’s famed Sketch Restaurant in dialogue with interior design by Paris-based India Madhavi from 2014. Shrigley was awarded the prestigious Fourth Plinth Commission in Trafalgar Square, London, in 2016.
