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Angus Fairhurst |
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Angus Fairhurst was born in Kent in 1966 and studied at Canterbury Art College and Goldsmiths College, London. In 1988 he participated in the ground-breaking group exhibition Freeze along with contemporaries including Damien Hirst, Gary Hume and Sarah Lucas.
Fairhurst’s work is often structured like an open-ended riddle, in which clues in the form of wordplay or visual puns are left unresolved. He is best known for his bronze gorilla sculptures and his collages of billboard advertisements and fashion magazines with the body and text removed, but he works across a range of media, from photography and painting to performance, video and animation. Appropriation is at the core of much of his practice. As well as constructing anthropomorphic or stylised versions of nature, he also borrows material and images, subverting their original appearance and value, to create new forms which are at times humorous, or elegant, but always ambivalent.
His work was included in Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away, Serpentine Gallery (1994); Brilliant! – New Art from Britain, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1995); Apocalypse, Royal Academy (2000); Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, Tate Modern (2001); Casino 2001, Smak, Gent (2001); and Man in the Middle, Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt am Main (2002). In 2004 Fairhurst participated in the exhibition In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida with Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas at Tate Britain. In 2004 two museums also held one-person shows of his work: Unwork, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, and Dysuniversal, Georg Kargl, Vienna.
Bronze sculptures are currently (or about to be) on display in the collections of Damien Hirst, Lord Rothschild, Boymans-Van Beunigen Museum Rotterdam, Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Mario Testino, Contemporary Art Society, and Celebrity Cruise Lines. Fairhurst’s work has also been included in this year’s summer exhibition at the Royal Academy.
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