Angus Fairhurst, Un-titled (Installation View) via Sadie Coles HQ

Sadie Coles HQ‘s current exhibition by the late Angus Fairhurst (1966-2008), Un-titled, explores notions of “doing and undoing, absence and presence, thinking and feeling.”  Culling from Fairhurst’s broad body of sculpture, painting, collage and photography, the show is a testament to the artist’s brief but impressive output.

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Angus Fairhurst’s ‘A Couple of Differences Between Thinking and Feeling II’ via Sadie Coles HQ

Angus Fairhurst was one of the orignianl “YBA’s” or Young British Artists, whom some feel was overshadowed perhaps by his peers Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, et al.  Fairhurst attended Goldsmiths College at the same time as Hirst and participated in the seminal exhibition Freeze in 1988, which brought the soon to be labeled YBAs to the attention of London collector Charles Saatchi and the art world at large.  Notably, Fairhurst organized a similar show of student work six months earlier, which served as a precursor to Freeze.  Since that initial burst of attention, Fairhurst exhibited internationally, including a well received group show in 2004 at the Tate Gallery with Hirst and long-time collaborator (and former girlfriend) Sarah Lucas. Working with a range of media and styles, Fairhurst’s work has been difficult to categorize – except perhaps by his idiosyncratic preoccupation with gorillas.

Angus Fairhurst [Arnolfini]
Angus Fairhurst at Arnolfini [Sadie Coles HQ]
Angus Fairhurst: the gorilla in the room [Times]
Angus Fairhurst, Arnolfini, Bristol [The Guardian]
Angus Fairhurst: The forgotten man [The Independent]

more story and images after the jump…

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