Damien Hirst - Artworks

Artworks

His works include:

• In and Out of Love (1991), an installation of potted plants, caterpillars and monochrome canvases painted with sugar solution and glue. There were also (in a separate room) tables with ashtrays containing used cigarette butts. Eventually, the caterpillars metamorphose into butterflies, and the insects become fixed to the surfaces of the canvases. In its now fixed form, the work is held by the Yale Center for British Art and is on regular exhibit there.
• The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), a tiger shark in a glass tank of formaldehyde. This piece was one of the works in his Turner Prize nomination show.
• A Thousand Years (1991), composed of a vitrine with a glass division. In one half is the severed head of a cow on the floor; in the other is an insect electrocutor. Maggots introduced into the vitrine feed off the cow and then develop into flies that are killed by the electrocutor.
• Pharmacy (1992), a life-size recreation of a chemist's shop.
• Amonium Biborate (1993)
• Away from the Flock (1994), composed of a dead sheep in a glass tank of formaldehyde.
• Arachidic Acid (1994) an early example of Hirst's spot paintings.
• Some Comfort Gained from the Acceptance of the Inherent Lies in Everything (1996) multiple cows in a line head-to-tail, divided cross-sectionally into equal rectangular tanks of formaldehyde, equally-spaced, each containing about 3 feet (0.91 m) of the animals.
• Beautiful Axe, Slash, Gosh Painting (1999) Signed on the reverse. Gloss household paint on canvas
• Hymn (1999), a scaled-up replica of his son Connor's toy: a basic anatomical model of the male human body. The sculpture is 20 ft (6.1 m) tall and composed of painted bronze.
• Mother and Child Divided, composed of a cow and a calf sliced in half in a glass tank of formaldehyde.
• Two Fucking and Two Watching, includes a rotting cow and bull. This work was banned from exhibition in New York by public health officials.
• God, composed of a cabinet containing pharmaceutical products.
• The Virgin Mother, a massive sculpture depicting a pregnant female human, with layers removed from one side to expose the fœtus, muscle and tissue layers, and skull underneath. This work was purchased by real estate magnate Aby Rosen for display on the plaza of one of his properties, the Lever House, in New York City.
• Breath (2001), a 45-second film of Samuel Beckett's play for the Beckett on Film series.
• Painting-By-Numbers (2001), a do-it-yourself painting kit comprising a stamped canvas, brushes, and 90 paint tins in plexiglass designed to make one infamous 'dot' painting. Part of the exhibition was binned by a gallery cleaner who mistook it for trash.
• The Stations of the Cross (2004), a series of twelve photographs depicting the final moments of Jesus Christ, made in collaboration with the photographer David Bailey.
• The Wrath of God (2005), a new version of a shark in formaldehyde.
• The Inescapable Truth, (2005). Glass, steel, dove, human skull and formaldehyde solution.
• The Sacred Heart of Jesus, (2005). Perspex, bull's heart, silver, assorted needles, scalpels, and formaldehyde solution.
• Faithless, (2005). Butterflies and household gloss on canvas
• The Hat Makes de Man, (2005). Painted bronze that simulates wood and hats.
• The Death of God, (2006). Household gloss on canvas, human skull, knife, coin and sea shells. This painting, which is a part of a group of others which were made in Mexico, are believed to be "the beginning of Hirst's Mexican period".
• For The Love of God, a platinum cast of an 18th century skull covered in 8,601 diamonds.
• Saint Sebastian, Exquisite Pain, a black calf tied to a pole pierced with arrows. The calf is in a tank of formaldehyde. Performer George Michael has recently purchased this calf and has made it Hirst's fourth most expensive piece.
• Beautiful Inside my Head Forever (2008), Hirst's auction of new work at Sotheby's.
• CleanEquity award 2008 and 2009
• Temple (2008), a massive painted bronze sculpture of a man, with similar treatment to "Virgin Mother", above, reminiscent of models used by anatomy students, with revealed organs and internal structure. This work was exhibited outside the Oceanographic Museum in Monaco in 2010, during a summer retrospective of the artist's work.
• Verity (2012), 20.25m (66ft) bronze statue of a pregnant woman holding a sword aloft. Now on a 20 year loan from Hirst to the town of Ilfracombe, North Devon. The statue was installed in October 2012. Verity can be seen at Ilfracombe Harbour.