Describing Beginning, Middle and End, continuous looping clay formed on site at the exhibition venue, Shrigley has said “Maybe it’s a metaphor for life: a very short beginning, a very short end, and a huge middle bit where lots of stuff seems to be happening.”

The work is made from 2000kg of clay and was created with the participation of numerous volunteers. This process shares a quality with other Shrigley projects in which he contradicts or wittily ridicules the concept of the artist as sacred or superior.