Snowman, 1996, Museum of Modern Art.

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He was born in Tenterden, Kent, and worked as an assistant film editor before giving it up in the 1980s to concentrate on art. He graduated from Goldsmiths College in 1988 and was part of the Freeze exhibition curated by Damien Hirst which brought together many of the artists subsequently promoted by Charles Saatchi as the Young British Artists. Location within the British Isles Tenterden is a small town in the Weald of Kent, England. ... Kent is a county in England, south-east of London. ... Film editing, also called montage, is the connecting of one or more shots together in a sequence. ... MacGyver - 1980s hero The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ... Goldsmiths College (founded in 1891 by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths as Goldsmiths Technical and Recreative Institute) has been a part of the federal University of London since 1904, when it took its current name. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Freeze was the title of an art exhibition organised by Damien Hirst and other students from Goldsmiths College. ... The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living by Damien Hirst (1991) Damien Hirst (born June 7, 1965) is a British artist and the leading artist of the group that has been dubbed Young British Artists (or YBAs). ... Charles Saatchi, born June 9, 1943, is the founder of the global advertising agency Saatchi and Saatchi, which was the worlds biggest before he and his brother Maurice left and formed M&C Saatchi. ...

Hume's earliest notable works were his "door paintings", life-size representations of hospital doors. These proved a critical success, being shown in Germany and the United States, as well as attracting the attention of collector Charles Saatchi, who bought some of them. Hume's work was included in the 1997 Sensation exhibition, a controversial touring show of Saatchi's collection which visited London, Berlin and New York. Charles Saatchi, born June 9, 1943, is the founder of the global advertising agency Saatchi and Saatchi, which was the worlds biggest before he and his brother Maurice left and formed M&C Saatchi. ... Sensation was a notorious exhibition of Young British Artists which took place in 1997 (18 September-28 December) at the Royal Academy of Art in London and later toured to Berlin and New York. ...

Water Painting, 1999, Tate Gallery.

Hume abandoned doors in the early 1990s, turning to paintings in gloss paint on aluminium. These often appropriate images from the media, including pictures of celebrities (e.g. DJ Tony Blackburn) and animals. Their forms and colours are dramatically simplified, with people being reduced to just two or three colours. Snowman (1996), for example, is made up of three shades of red, showing a circle on top of a larger circle against a lighter background. At first, Hume used mainly bright colours, but later pieces have used more muted tones. Image File history File links Hume,_Water_Painting. ... Image File history File links Hume,_Water_Painting. ... The Tate Gallery in the United Kingdom is a network of four galleries: Tate Britain (opened 1897), Tate Liverpool (1988), Tate St Ives (1993), Tate Modern (2000), with a complementary website Tate Online (1998). ... The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive. ... A gloss is a note made in the margins or between the lines of a book, in which the meaning of the text in its original language is explained in another language. ... It has been suggested that Dutch process paint be merged into this article or section. ... General Name, Symbol, Number aluminium, Al, 13 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 13, 3, p Appearance silvery Atomic mass 26. ... Tony Blackburn (born January 29, 1943 in Guildford, Surrey, England) is an award winning British disc jockey. ...

He represented Britain at the 1999 Venice Biennale, where he showed his Water series, a number of superimposed line drawings of women (again, these were gloss paint on aluminium). View of Pump Room, a work by the Hungarian artist Balázs Kicsiny at the Venice Biennale in 2005. ...

Hume was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1996. In 2001 he was made a Royal Academician, to some surprise, given the Academy's perceived policy of admitting only older artists. The Turner Prize is an annual prize given to a British visual artist under 50, named after the painter J.M.W. Turner. ... This article refers to an art institution in London. ...

External links

• Images of some of Hume's later works
• An interview from The Guardian by Dominic Murphy
• Clippings from an interview by David Barrett