His stepfather was reportedly a motor mechanic. He never met his father his mother married his stepfather when Hirst was two, and the couple divorced 10 years later. Hirst was born Damien Steven Brennan in Bristol and grew up in Leeds.
2 Early career-student and warehouse shows.In one instance, after his sculpture Hymn was found to be closely based on a child's toy, legal proceedings led to an out-of-court settlement. Since 1999, Hirst's works have been challenged and contested as plagiarised 16 times. The auction raised £111 million ($198 million), breaking the record for a one-artist auction as well as Hirst's own record with £10.3 million for The Golden Calf, an animal with 18-carat gold horns and hooves, preserved in formaldehyde. In September 2008, Hirst made an unprecedented move for a living artist by selling a complete show, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, at Sotheby's by auction and bypassing his long-standing galleries. He has also made " spin paintings", created on a spinning circular surface, and "spot paintings", which are rows of randomly coloured circles created by his assistants. The best-known of these was The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a 14-foot (4.3 m) tiger shark immersed in formaldehyde in a clear display case.
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He became famous for a series of artworks in which dead animals (including a shark, a sheep and a cow) are preserved, sometimes having been dissected, in formaldehyde. ĭeath is a central theme in Hirst's works. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended. He is reportedly the United Kingdom's richest living artist, with his wealth estimated at $384 million in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List. He is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. The Damien Hirst Room at Arken Museum of Modern Art, Denmarkīrennan born 7 June 1965) is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector.