Emblematic as they are of both the ephemerality of life and the romance of death, butterflies have long been considered one of Damien Hirst’s acclaimed hallmarks, symbolising the diverse concepts of freedom, beauty, life and death. Among his most serene compositions from the series is the much sought after editioned screenprint ‘Love is All You Need’ from 2016...read more
Referencing Impressionism, Pointillism and Action Painting, the Cherry Blossoms are about the spontaneous joy of spring. Damien Hirst said “Cherry Blossoms are about beauty and life and death. They’re extreme – there’s something hopeful yet hopeless about them. They’re art but taken from nature. They’re...
Damien Hirst’s seemingly abstract candy-coloured flower field, ‘Garden of Dreams’ (2018), is an engulfing facsimile print from his ‘Veil Paintings’ series (2017). Across the series Hirst filled the pictorial space with Bonnard-like colours using a technique reminiscent of Pointillism to create veil-like works, compositions that actas 'a barrier, a curtain between two things...it’s solid yet invisible and reveals and yet obscures the truth’...read more
Referencing Impressionism, Pointillism and Action Painting, the Cherry Blossoms are about the spontaneous joy of spring. Damien Hirst said “Cherry Blossoms are about beauty and life and death. They’re extreme – there’s something hopeful yet hopeless about them. They’re art but taken from nature. They’re...
Infused with the child-like joy reminiscent of his ‘Spin Paintings’ series, begun in 1994, Damien Hirst’s 2016 ‘Colour Space’ paintings rid themselves of the rigid structure of his ‘Spot Paintings’ (begun in 1986), constituting a new phase in Hirst’s endless endeavour to “[pin] down the...
Infused with the child-like joy reminiscent of his ‘Spin Paintings’ series, begun in 1994, Damien Hirst’s 2016 ‘Colour Space’ paintings rid themselves of the rigid structure of his ‘Spot Paintings’ (begun in 1986), constituting a new phase in Hirst’s endless endeavour to “[pin] down the...
Damien Hirst’s silkscreen ‘Studio Half Skull, half face’ (2009) is an eloquent engagement with one of the artist’s best‐known themes – death. In profile against a white backdrop is a photographed image of a skull, which faces to the viewer’s left. The skull inherently serves as a memento mori, a symbolic reminder of death, which has for centuries been illustrated through personifications of skulls and skeletons...read more