Location

Country: France
City: Paris
Place: British Embassy

Gary Hume is one of the generation of ‘Young British Artists’ who rose to prominence in the late 1980s. He studied at Goldsmiths College in London from 1985 to 1988, participating in the landmark exhibition Freeze, curated by fellow student Damien Hirst. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1996 and in the same year represented Britain at the São Paulo Bienal. Two years later, he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale. Since then he has had solo exhibitions at institutions across Europe, including the Kestnergesellschaft in Hanover, Tate Britain in London, Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Modern Art Oxford, and Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Deurle, Belgium. Hume lives and works in London and Accord, New York.

Places

Subjects

abstract, plant, flower

Materials & Techniques

aluminium leaf, paper (as artists material), screenprint

Artist

Gary Hume (1962 - )

Title

Succulent

Edition

2/50

Date

2005

Medium

Screenprint on aluminium leaf on paper

Dimensions

height: 101.70 cm, width: 62.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the Royal Academy, June 2005

Inscription

below image: 2/50 / succulent / Gary Hume 05

Provenance

the artist via Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2005

GAC number

18025