Selected Articles
Rebel artist who threw it all away returns after 25 yearsFeature article by Arts Correspondent Jack Malvern
SLEEK_From Berlin to Hastings_article by An PaenhuysenFeature article and show review by An Paenhuysen
The years, however, didn’t result in an oeuvre that has an overdone look. Rather a development in consistency seems to have taken place, one that’s not so easy to get your head around. In the 1990s, Fudge started off by thinking about the Internet in a 2010s post-Internet kind of way. But in the 2010s this same work is also an exploration of the media archaeology of the 1990s.
Blog by An Paenhuysen_Development of SLEEK articleDas Verschwinden des Materials, An Paenhuysen blog
I promised you a while ago that I’ll tell you all about the who, what, when, where and why of Nick Fudge. Well, I wrote about it in detail for Sleek Magazine and you can read it there. But for my blog’s sake, I'll give you a little extra. First of all, you’ve seen Nick Fudge before - he was in my VLOG on the Venice Biennial where I interviewed him in the British Pavilion. Nick Fudge is a friend of Sarah Lucas, so that’s why he was hanging out there, looking good against the custard yellow colored walls. In my VLOG he tells us that he went underground after finishing Goldsmiths at the end of the 1980s. So you can imagine my surprise when a few months after meeting him in Venice, the artist invited me to his exhibition opening in Hastings. What happens when underground goes up, I pondered. It’s bound to happen of course, and we’ve seen it happen in art history before: the up goes under, and the under goes up.
Sequential edited convo- Gary Hume for Turps BananaTurps Banana Magazine
The Undoing of Gary Hume by Nick Fudge and Gary Hume
I’ve shared a Google Doc with you. An intro of sorts. Do you prefer the text as is, or with spaces for you to add your thoughts? 1 Feb 2020, 11:02
I havnt got access to that can we do email? 1 Feb 2020, 13:22
Or no intro? 1 Feb 2020, 18:45
I prefer it as an introduction rather than me to fill in gaps If I was to do that I fear I would trot out the same old stuff ( not that I won’t anyway) rather than obliquely approaching these and other matters , which may engender something new or at the least clarify something for me.
When I was 45 and realized the chat show circuit was a circuit ,I was shocked at my idiocy but still disappointed that as Jean Michel Basquiat said , “SAME-O “
Though I’ve probably got a handful of thoughts I’d prefer to hear them in a different order Sat, 1 Feb, 19:48
On Inhabiting Delay - Nick Fudge by Phil KingOn Inhabiting Delay - Nick Fudge, by Turps Banana editor Phil King
Sarah Lucas, representing Britain at this year’s Venice Biennale has in recent years been making big penis sculptures. I was reminded of the story of her Goldsmiths classmate Nick Fudge decorating each student cubicle during the first week of college with intrusive graffiti phalli. These were apparently greeted in the morning with amusement by some and various kinds of angry disgust by others. Lucas’s bright yellow phallus dominating the vista at Venice has a different effect but a similar gratuitous cheek. I can’t help thinking that both illuminate some basic (and base) art-making motive.
Susie and Nick_Turps Banana_FinalTurps Banana Magazine
Nick Fudge and Susie Hamilton talk poetry
Römer and Römer interview for Turps Banana MagazineTurps Banana Magazine
Nick Fudge interviews Römer + Römer