Gary Hume: ‘I couldn’t hold down a job. That’s why I became an artist’
19 May 2013 • Mark Westall
A fully paid-up member of the rowdy YBA generation in the 90s, the artist made his name with his household gloss-painted life-size door paintings. On the eve of a solo show at Tate Britain, he talks about his agent Jay Jopling, his farm in upstate New York – and why he now confines his excesses to the studio