In this drawing on paper Shrigley has created a surreal image of a road peppered with small hairs, resembling a man’s forearm. He often uses well-known or clichéd phrases like this one and turns them on their head by introducing a sense of the absurd, ridiculous or surreal. Shrigley is best known for his caustic drawings like this one which make crude and humorous observations on everyday life. Handwriting also plays an important role in his work – its raw and uneven style is instantly recognisable as his own. His work hovers between illustration and fine art and he is part of a long line of satirical cartoonists from Edward Lear and James Thurber to Spike Milligan and Gary Larson. His awkward, improvised drawings and musings resemble schoolboy doodles and often contain scribbles, mistakes and corrections.