{"title":"Angus Fairhurst","description":"\u003cp\u003eAngus Fairhurst (1966–2008) was a British artist whose practice moved across painting, sculpture, video, performance and printed matter. A central figure in the generation of artists who emerged from Goldsmiths College in the late 1980s, Fairhurst was closely associated with Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas and the broader YBA milieu, though his work maintained a consistently oblique relationship to the spectacle that surrounded it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFairhurst’s output was marked by a particular kind of deadpan wit — an interest in failure, repetition and the gap between intention and result. His gorilla sculptures, his gallery-to-gallery telephone pieces, and his paintings of figures dissolving into abstraction all share a quality of deflation: the work arrives at its subject by a route that refuses the direct approach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublications connected to Fairhurst’s exhibitions are rare and correspondingly significant: small-edition catalogues and printed matter that document a practice cut short by his death in 2008, and that preserve the particular register of his intelligence in the format of the page.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"package-holiday-new-british-art-ophiuchus-collection-hydra-1997","title":"PACKAGE HOLIDAY: New British Art in the Ophiuchus Collection. Hydra Workshop, 1997","description":"\u003cp\u003eHydra, Greece: The Hydra Workshop, 1997. Exhibition catalogue published for \u003cem\u003ePackage Holiday: New British Art in the Ophiuchus Collection\u003c\/em\u003e, 26 July–30 September 1997, The Hydra Workshop, Hydra. Organised by Pauline Karpidas and Sadie Coles. Landscape softcover, staple-bound. Colour photographs and illustrations throughout. 21 × 15 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good. Pronounced vertical handling crease through the wrappers, with rubbing, scattered surface marks, small abrasions and wear to the edges and corners. Light handling internally; complete and firmly bound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1997 Pauline Karpidas and Sadie Coles brought fifteen London-based artists to the Hydra Workshop, a former boat-repair space on the island’s harbour. \u003cem\u003ePackage Holiday\u003c\/em\u003e was their first exhibition there together and established the model for the annual programme that followed: artists, curators and galleries temporarily relocated to Hydra, with a publication produced for each presentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe exhibition assembled Don Brown, Peter Doig, Tracey Emin, Angus Fairhurst, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Sarah Lucas, Paul Noble, Chris Ofili, Richard Patterson, Simon Patterson, Georgina Starr, Sam Taylor-Wood, Nicola Tyson and Gillian Wearing. Each artist was represented by a single work from the Ophiuchus Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe catalogue borrows the visual language of a holiday brochure: uninterrupted blue covers, panoramic views of Hydra, a row of packed suitcases and bright blue headings. Simon Patterson’s \u003cem\u003eThe Great Bear\u003c\/em\u003e faces Damien Hirst’s \u003cem\u003ePemoline\u003c\/em\u003e; Sam Taylor-Wood’s \u003cem\u003eFive Revolutionary Seconds IX\u003c\/em\u003e extends across the gutter; works by Richard Patterson and Georgina Starr appear as another unlikely pair. A private collection, a London gallery network and a generation of British artists are condensed into one small travel document.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cover wear now interrupts the continuous blue surface, leaving the catalogue with visible evidence of the movement its title proposed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Hydra Workshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53986478457170,"sku":"PACKAGEHOLIDAY-HYDRA-CAT-1997","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Brown_Dan._Doig_Peter._Emin_Tracey._Show_catalogue_Package_Holiday_Hydra._1997.jpg?v=1783901135"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/angus-fairhurst.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}