Damien Hirst

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

Inazō Nitobe defines Honour as having a ‘vivid consciousness of personal dignity and worth’. At times in which Honour threatened to reach ‘morbid excess’ it would be counterbalanced by preaching of magnanimity and patience. Nitobe records that Honour was the highest prize of earthly existence and that fame, not wealth or knowledge, stood as the goal of youths.

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...