British · b. 1962
British artist associated with the Young British Artists who emerged from Goldsmiths in the late 1980s. He is best known for flat, luminous paintings in household gloss paint, beginning with his life-size Door Paintings of hospital doors, and later on aluminium. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1996, represented Britain at the 1999 Venice Biennale and was elected a Royal Academician in 2001.
Photo by AndyScott, CC BY-SA 4.0
2008 · Thames Path by The O2, Greenwich Peninsula, London
A monumental patinated bronze by Gary Hume formed from three interlocking limbs based on a shop mannequin's arm, each ending in candy-pink paint. It rests on railway sleepers beside the Thames as part of The Line art walk.
No current or upcoming exhibitions.