Acrylic on paper
28 x 20 in (71,1 x 50,8 cm)
Internationally renowned, Damien Hirst is considered as one of the most successful artist of our time. A prominent member of the Young British Artists (YBA) Hirst was born in Bristol, England and grew up in Leeds. He was admitted to the Jacob Kramer School of Art and then at Goldsmiths, University of London where he studied Fine Art. Since 1988, Hirst has organised and participated in various exhibitions. In 1990, Hirst debuted his first major animal installation ‘A Thousand Years’ presenting the rotting head of a cow in a glass case being fed on by maggots and flies. Always challenging the notion of art, Hirst has produced many works which both wowed and shocked the world. From his first animal installation, Hirst went on to create his iconic work of The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living exhibited in Saatchi Gallery in 1992 which featured a shark immersed in a vitrine of formaldehyde. Besides his animal installations, Hirst has also done numerous series of paintings and prints such as his widely recognisable ‘Spot Painting’ (1991) known as The Pharmaceutical Paintings comprising of uniformly aligned rows of coloured spots. Hirst’s ‘Aubade, Crown of Glory” (2006) reminiscent of stained glass windows of old cathedrals but made up entirely of butterflies to create his modern interpretation to these traditional religious iconography. In 1995 Hirst won the Turner Prize. Besides international solo shows from Seoul, London, Salzburg and New York, Hirst has also directed music video, short films and even designed the BRIT Awards statute in 2013. Hirst’s works is exhibited in renowned museums such as the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and is much sort after by art collectors.