Fairhurst, Angus

Fairhurst, Angus
▪ 2009

      British artist

born Oct. 4, 1966, Pembury, Kent, Eng.

died March 29, 2008, Bridge of Orchy, Argyll, Scot.
was a founding member (with Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas) of the Young British Artists group that dominated British art in the 1990s; he was perhaps best known for a series of artworks featuring bronze representations of gorillas. Fairhurst participated in the seminal 1988 art show “Freeze” in London that launched the Young British Artists phenomenon. With incisive humour and great attention to form, he worked in collage, sculpture, painting, and installation and performance art. His work appeared in several important exhibitions, most recently in “In-a-Gadda-da-Vida” at Tate Britain in 2004.

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