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Gary Hume (born 1962) is an English artist and a leading Young British Artists (YBAs).
Life
Gary Hume was born on 9th May 1962 in Tenterden, Kent, and attended Homewood School and Sixth Form. He worked as an assistant film editor before giving it up in the 1980s to concentrate on art. He graduated from Goldsmiths College in 1988 and was part of the Freeze exhibition curated by Damien Hirst.
Hume's earliest notable works were his "door paintings", life-size representations of hospital doors. These proved a critical success, being shown in Germany and the United States, as well as attracting the attention of collector Charles Saatchi. Hume's work was included in the 1997 Sensation exhibition, a controversial touring show of Saatchi's collection which visited London, Berlin and New York.
Hume abandoned doors in the early 1990s, turning to paintings in gloss paint on aluminum. These often appropriate images from the media, including pictures of celebrities (e.g. DJ Tony Blackburn) and animals. Their forms and colours are dramatically simplified, with people being reduced to just two or three colours. Snowman (1996), for example, is made up of three shades of red, showing a circle on top of a larger circle against a lighter background. At first, Hume used mainly bright colours, but later pieces have used more muted tones. He represented Britain at the 1999 Venice Biennale, where he showed his Water series, a number of superimposed line drawings of women (again, these were gloss paint on aluminium). Hume was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1996. He was made a Royal Academician in 2001...
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- White Cube: Gary Hume
- Images of some of Hume's later works
- An interview from The Guardian by Dominic Murphy
- Clippings from an interview by David Barrett
- BBC Collective Gary Hume gives a video tour of his exhibition Cave Paintings at the White Cube, plus a gallery of images
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