British artist David Shrigley has piled tonnes of discarded rope into a London gallery and put a £1 million price tag on it, in a playful take on the phrase "money for old rope".

The Turner Prize-nominated artist's work, which opens on Friday at the Stephen Friedman Gallery in central London, consists of four huge piles of old rope.

Together they weigh in at around 10 tonnes and had to be transported on 60 pallets after months of collecting.

The project, which attracted giggles from passersby peeking through the Mayfair gallery's large windows when AFP visited on Thursday, above all seeks to be fun.

"I decided to act upon the British aphorism, which is 'money for old rope', which basically means that you're being remunerated for goods or a service that has in itself no value," Shrigley

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