Price On Request Artist: Damien HirstTitle: Benzyloxyurea Medium: Woodcut Print on paperYear: 2011Edition Size: 55Size: 51.7 x 45.7cmFramed size: 79 x 72 x 4 cmPrice includes current frame and delivery within Singapore. This piece is created using a traditional woodcut print method, therefore the natural grains of the natural wood may be visible within the print.Please contact us for an international delivery quotation.Damien Hirst was born in Bristol (birth place of Cary Grant) in 1965 and is currently cited as being the richest living artist in the world. Hirst took a foundation course at Leeds School of Art before applying for college. He was rejected by St Martin’s but moved to London in 1986 when he was accepted onto the BA Fine Art course at Goldsmiths College, graduating in 1989. Whilst still a student in 1988, Hirst conceived, organized and promoted an exhibition held in a Docklands warehouse. The show featured several of Hirst’s pieces along with work by 16 of his fellow Goldsmiths’ students.Many believe this exhibition to be the launching point of the “Young British Artists” movement. After seeing Hirst’s work at the show, Charles Saatchi, began to collect his work and exhibited it in the first “Charles Saatchi’s Young British Artists” show. In 1990, Saatchi bought Hirst’s “A Thousand Years”. Since that point Hirst has consistently produced work that has been provocative and ground breaking.Since 1992 Hirst has organized a succession of exhibitions that have helped define a generation, one completely different from previous generations of artists. The Young British Artists are characterized by their independence, entrepreneurial spirit and media acumen. Most promote their own shows and tend to draw in private patrons such as Charles Saatchi.The central, though not exclusive, theme of Hirst’s work has been an exploration of mortality. Hirst is best known for a...