Gary Hume
Gary Hume
Gary Stewart Hume is an English artist. Hume's work is strongly identified with the YBA artists who came to prominence in the early 1990s. Hume currently lives and works in London and Accord, New York...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth9 May 1962
art school
The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.
Over the years, my 'Door' paintings have become somewhat mythologized.
change constantly fact love sort
Now, I love painting. I love looking. I love the fact that they don't move. They constantly change with the light. They are sort of patient.
liked mum pictures poetry stuff
My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
broke came holding incapable job unemployed
My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
half hour necessary rest time
I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.
full
I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.
I think Picasso is more feminine than Matisse.
annual brief full growing love wood
I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
informing painting says
I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.
human work
I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
tenderness
A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.
agents bit concrete drawn feeling magazines news particular poetry rack realise wondering
If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.