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
bit front people slower spend time
I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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.
fascinated time until work
I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.
bits buy hopefully people
It's not part of my ambition to become fabulously rich. My plan was always to make my pictures, and hopefully people would buy them, and then I'd buy a studio, buy a house, help friends out, do bits and bobs - but I've no idea after that.
develop final state
I'm probably not going to develop to a final state as an artist. Like, become better and better, more and more refined. Become 'pure.' I don't think that's going to happen to me, because I don't really see that as something I want to explore.
found lived paper stuff
I lived on nothing for years - squatted where I lived and where I worked, stole electricity, made things from stuff I found in skips, used paper that had been discarded - you do everything you can do to keep going and not have to get a job.
death far
I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.
certain given transform
I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
comprehend few incredibly job lasted
I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, 'How am I going to make a film if I can't write?' I didn't really comprehend that someone else would do that bit.
change labour moment painting people voted
I don't vote. I voted Labour once, in that moment of euphoria. I know that if people only made a voice for change, then change will happen, but I'm not that person. I'm painting pictures.
art becomes history inevitably matter paint soon toss
All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.
surface
The surface is all you get of me.
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.