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David Shrigley releases "thumbs up" teaser for his Really Good Fourth Plinth sculpture



Artist David Shrigley is set to unveil his gigantic "thumbs up" installation on the Fourth Plinth in London's Trafalgar Square tomorrow and has released a gif to accompany it.
David Shrigley is the latest British artist to create a sculpture for the empty stone plinth at the corner of the square, where the three other corner plinths are occupied by traditional sculptures of historic figures.
He has created a huge bronze hand with an elongated thumb in the "thumbs up" position. The sculpture is called Really Good.
"At the time I submitted that proposal, I really didn't anticipate that I would actually be given the commission," Shrigley told Dezeen in an interview that will be published in full tomorrow.

"It was written from the point of view of some kind of crazy political, policy statement, which said that if you say everything is good then it will act as some self-fulfilling prophecy and make everything good, and it would make London, the UK, the world a better place by doing that."
Related story: David Shrigley and Sadiq Khan launch LondonIsOpen poster campaign for the Tube

Macclesfield-born Shrigley is known for his irreverent and opinionated drawings, which have increasingly been translated into physical objects, like the recent mascot for football team Partick Thistle.
He has produced a series of stories in gif format, published on the Giphy platform and on social media. The Really Good gif released this week is the...
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