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Angus Fairhurst (born 1966) is a British artist working in installation, photography and video. He studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths' College where he was in the same year as Damien Hirst. The two became close friends and have collaborated on many projects but Fairhurst never achieved the same level of celebrity or reknown as Hirst. Fairhurst was also for severl years the partner and sometime collaborator of Sarah Lucas.
Fairhurst's work is usually characterised by visual distortion and practical jokes. In 1991 he did a piece in which he networked together the phones of leading contemporary art dealers in London so that they could only talk to each other - a witty and telling remark that the art world is often only interested in speaking to its self.
Angus Fairhurst exhibited in 'Freeze' and 'Some Went Mad and Some Ran Away' both curated by Hirst and 'Minky Manky' curated by Carl Freedman.
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