ARTFORUM
Angus Fairhurst
Angus Fairhurst is a modern-day Edward Scissorhands, cutting through a thicket of images. His layered collages use advertisements from fashion magazines and London bus stops as source material, from which he removes all bodies and...
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ARTFORUM
Contemporary Fine Arts
For his collages, Angus Fairhurst seems to adopt twin approaches of iconoclasm and censorship. "Body and text removed" is the refrain in the titles of these works, which were made with magazine and billboard advertisements and a very sharp pair of...
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TELEGRAPH MAGAZINE
Would you Adam and Eve it?
'You would definitely have gnomes in the Garden of Eden.' Damien Hirst says fimly, 'But where the hell did they come...'
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TIME OUT LONDON
The Eden Project
Ever since leaving Goldsmiths in 1988, Sarah Lucas, Damien Hirst and Angus Fairhurst have remained friends, and one drunken weekend, they hatched a plan to stage a joint show. The result, 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida', opens at Tate Britain on March 3. With most of the partitions taken down, the exhbition galleries have been turned into a large open...
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EVENING STANDARD
Last Chance
More or less Angus Fairhurst: If you've seen Fairhurst's work before and are expecting restrained conceptualism, this show will hit you with visual stimuli and a dynamic presentation worthy of Russian constructivism. The gallery is sliced in two by a deep grey paint line and preparatory works of various sizes are hung around...
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TIME OUT LONDON
Hoxton HQ
The difference between the immaculate White Cube and Hoxton House couldn't be more stark. In this crumbling, red-brick building, work by Sadie Coles's British stable sits beneath bare bulbs in a space that can be described as...
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I-D MAGAZINE
Art School Rock
Although Angus Fairhurst has worked in a variety of media since graduating from Goldsmiths in the late '80s, drawing has always been at the centre of his artistic production. Whether with pen and paper or on his computer screen, Fairhurst has created a sizeable cosmology filled with abject gorillas, incongruous hermaphrodites, distendedbody organs and splayed banana...
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TIME OUT LONDON
Angus Fairhurst
Entitled 'More or Less Angus Fairhurst', this selection of works on paper appears to be the sort of thing that artists throw together when their egos have reached critical mass. Laziness isn't Fairhurst's metier, though- although being intentionally irritating is; in fact, this is a rigorous and durable...
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EVENING STANDARD
Less is Less - More or Less
Exhibitions of sketches and drawings are traditionally billed as a privileged insight into the mind and working practices of an artist. This exhibition of works on paper supplies just such an insight into the world of Angus Fairhurst, though the privilege is a dubious...
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THE GUIDE
Angus Fairhurst
Angus Fairhurst is one of the pioneers of the young British artists. A contemporary of Damien Hirst, he appeared in the now infamous Freeze exhibition that started the whole yBa thing, shared a studio with Hirst in the late 80s and, until recently, dated Sarah...
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