Fudge studied at Goldsmiths College, London, as a member of the YBA (Young British Artists) generation along with Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, Liam Gillick, Gary Hume, and Michael Landy.
[1] At the time, his tutors Michael Craig-Martin and Jon Thompson expected Fudge to attain comparable success when, just before his graduate show, he destroyed all his artwork and disappeared from the international art world for over twenty-five years.
[4] Fudge counts the Modernist painters Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Francis Picabia, and Jasper Johns,[1] the poet T. S. Eliot,[5] and the writer James Joyce[4] amongst his biggest influences.
[1][4] He began creating digital artworks in the early 1990s when he found a Macintosh Classic II in a thrift store in Montana and, sharing it with Angel who used it to write her poems, taught himself the graphics software of the day.
[1] The Berlin-based art critic and curator An Paenhuysen has described these works as "post-internet in the way that [they use] the tools of the Web to create an object that in the end exists in the real world.