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==Underdone/Overdone Paintings== One of his late works is a series of silk-screens called ''Underdone/Overdone Paintings'', made in 1998. It consists of thirty paintings, [[acrylic paint|acrylic]] [[Silk-screen printing|silk-screen]] on panels, largely 90 x 60 cm, which were initially displayed in ''The Missing Link'' exhibition (1998) in the [[Sadie Coles HQ]] Gallery in London.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sadiecoles.com/exhibitions-press-release/angus-fairhurst-the-missing-link-1998|title=Angus Fairhurst {{!}} The Missing Link 1998 {{!}} Sadie Coles HQ|website=sadiecoles.com|access-date=2016-08-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914140923/http://www.sadiecoles.com/exhibitions-press-release/angus-fairhurst-the-missing-link-1998|archive-date=14 September 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> The paintings depict abstract forms of a primeval forest with trees, coloured in the three primary colours. These were laid in varied combinations over each other at random over a sequence of thirty pictures.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Angus Fairhurst|last=Craddock|first=Sacha|year=2009|location=London|pages=21f}}</ref> Fairhurst's work embodies an antithesis between the accumulation of forms and the reduction into formlessness.<ref name=":0" /> A similar technique of repetition and layering can be found in the ''Low, Lower and Lowest Expectations'' series (1996 β 1997).<ref>{{Cite book|title=Angus Fairhurst|last=Craddock|first=Sacha|year=2009|location=London|pages=20f}}</ref>
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