Gary Hume’s hospital doors are a tonic at new Tate Britain show

The doors are set to open at Tate Britain on a new exhibition by Gary Hume — supposedly “the quiet one” among the celebrated group of Young British Artists.

Hume made his name in the early Nineties with his large-scale paintings based on hospital doors in high-gloss paint. These were first exhibited in the 1988 Freeze exhibition organised by Hume’s then fellow student, Damien Hirst. The Tate Britain show, from Wednesday until 1 September, includes new work and international loans not seen in the UK before. It will run in parallel to a survey of celebrated painter Patrick Caulfield (1936–2005).

Tate Britain recently underwent its first complete re-hang since the millennium, and now includes permanent galleries to Henry Moore and William Blake.