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
Damien Hirst’s argument that ‘colour is just a powerful, uplifting thing’ is materialises is ‘Beverley Hills’ (2018). This facsimile print from the ‘Colour Space’ series of paintings from 2016 portrays a free-flowing approach to depicting spots, diverging from his iconic ‘Spots’ works while maintaining its...
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
Damien Hirst’s ‘Cafe Royal’ (2018) sets a kaleidoscopic palette of spots against a black background to create a deeply intricate composition. The present facsimile, a diasec-mounted giclée print on aluminium panel of unparalleled quality, is derived from an original painting from the ‘Colour Space’ series...
Damien Hirst once claimed that ‘art’s about life and it can’t really be about anything else...there isn’t anything else’. His unique practice, which includes installation, sculpture, painting and drawing, strives to interrogate the core tensions and contradictions of the human experience...read more
In May 2020, Damien Hirst released his vibrant ‘Butterfly Heart’, one of four limited edition rainbow prints produced during the COVID‐19 pandemic. With all of the profits of its sale donated to NHS Charities Together and The Felix Project, the print was released within a fixed time frame for purchase. As such, the number of editions ordered determined the final size of the edition...read more