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Gary Hume
Shortlisted: 1996

Hume's paintings are often deliciously coloured and unashamedly sensual. He describes his subjects as 'embarrassingly personal'; they have included feet, flowers, animals, toys, women and such media celebrities as Tony Blackburn, chosen he says, 'for their ability to describe beauty and pathos'. Using images from fashion magazines and other mass-media sources, he produces paintings from immaculately applied layers of gloss paint.

Whistler 1996 Enamel on paint on aluminium panel, 210 x 160.5 cm Private Collection © Courtesy the artist and Jay Jopling/White Cube (London) Photo: Matthew Marks, New York

Gary Hume was born in Kent in 1962 and studied at Goldsmiths College from 1985 to 1988. In 1996 he was shortlisted for his solo exhibitions seen at the Kunsthalle in Bern, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in London.

This information has been taken from The Turner Prize: Twenty Years, by Virginia Button, Tate Publishing, 2003.

View Gary Hume in the Tate Collection