Artist Angus Fairhurst dead at 41

LONDON, April 1 (UPI) -- Angus Fairhurst, one of the founding members of the Young British Artists group of conceptual artists, has hanged himself from a tree, police said.

He was 41.

Fairhurst's representative told the Daily Telegraph newspaper the artist committed suicide Saturday on the last day of his third solo show at a London gallery.

Strathclyde Police said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding Fairhurst's death.

His body was found in a remote Highland woods near the Bridge of Orchy, the newspaper said.

"He always supported me, in fair weather and foul," Fairhurst's fellow artist Damien Hirst said. "He shone like the moon and as an artist he had just the right amount of 'slightly round the bend.' I loved him."

Fairhurst's latest solo exhibition of sculptures and large-scale paintings was at Sadie Coles HQ in London.

"Angus was funny, ridiculously charming, a wonderful cook and great host, a crazy dancer, a radical gardener, a nature lover, and an intensely intelligent artist," Coles and her fellow director Pauline Daly said in a joint statement.

Fairhurst is survived by his mother, Sally, and brother, Charles.