David Shrigley on Sketch

The British visual artist on his latest exhibition for Sketch – an artist-conceived restaurant and gallery in London’s Mayfair

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The original concept in the restaurant was that my artworks would be on show for a couple of years, and then they would choose another artist so I hadn’t thought too much about doing another exhibition. But I think my artwork, combined with India Mahdavi's interior design, was more popular than we anticipated – people responded to it really well, and it's really comfortable.

Rather than just do the same work again, or just replace the artwork with like for like, I thought I'd do something different, if not for the sake of variety. In the new collection I've brought in more colour and drawn on various different media, such as acrylics, printmaking and even oil bar drawings. India has, in turn, brought out the iconic pink even more.

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