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Damien Hirst Julian Opie Marc Quinn David Mach Joe Black
Damien Hirst was born in Bristol in 1965. He moved to London in 1984 and worked in construction before beginning his studies at the Goldsmiths College of Art. He first came to public attention in 1988 when he conceived and curated Freeze, an exhibition of his work and that of his friends and fellow students at Goldsmiths. The exhibition is largely considered the starting point for the Young British Artists movement prominent in the 1990s. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1995.
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Hirst’s practice of installation, sculpture and painting is notable for its strong associations to life and death. His work calls into question our awareness and convictions about the boundaries that separate desire and fear navigated through complex value systems. Since 1987 he has exhibited in nearly one hundred solo shows and countless group shows, including a major retrospective in 2012 at the Tate Modern. He recently opened a gallery in South London that will showcase his own extensive collection. Hirst lives and works throughout the UK.
Julian Opie is a contemporary British artist born in 1958. He graduated from Goldsmith’s College of Art in 1982. His instantly recognizable style of portraiture synthesizes the traditions of Minimalism and Pop art with processes of digital alteration. ‘Painting’ with a variety of different media and technology, Opie’s works range from ink on canvas to sculptures of flattened, everyday images.
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Opie has held extensive solo and group exhibitions including at the National Portrait Gallery, London; Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow (MoCAK), IVAM, Valencia, Spain; and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. His work is held in many major museum collections including the Arts Council, England; British Museum, London; Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh; IVAM Museum of Modern Art, New York; MoMAT Tokyo; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; National Portrait Gallery, London; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate Collection, London and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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David Mach is considered one of the leaders of the New British Sculpture movement. He studied at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and the Royal College of Art, London. In 2000 he was appointed as Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools, London. He is best known for his flowing assemblages made from mass-produced objects such as coat hangers, magazines, matchsticks and tires. His work often seeks to express the discontinuity between the mundane, mass-produced, household objects and the exotic and wild aspects of the animal they are used to represent.
Marc Quinn is a leading contemporary artist and member of the loosely termed Young British Artists group. After studying History and Art History at Robertson College, Cambridge, he worked as an assistant to sculptor Barry Flanagan before gaining recognition in 1991 for his sculpture entitled Self, a cast of his own head made from his own frozen blood. Many of Quinn’s prominent works explore the relationship between art, science, the human body and our perceptions of beauty, often employing grotesque tenants to deliver poignant messages of growth and evolution.
Mach held his first solo exhibition at Lisson Gallery in 1982 and has continued to gain prominence since. In 1988 the artist was nominated for the Turner Prize at the Tate Gallery in London, and in 1992 was the recipient of the Lord Provost’s Prize in Glasgow. Much of his commission-based work has been exhibited in some of the world’s most prestigious museums, including the Tate Britain, the National Portrait Gallery in London City Art Center of Edinburgh, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego. He was elected Royal Academician in 1998, and continues to live and work in London.
Quinn’s acclaimed fifteen-ton marble sculpture of the disabled artist Alison Lapper while pregnant with her son was exhibited in Trafalgar Square in London in 2005, and his solid gold sculpture of Kate Moss was shown at the British Museum in 2008. Additional exhibitions include the Tate Gallery in London, the Fondazione Prada in Milan, and Arter Space for Art in Istanbul.
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Joe Black is a British contemporary artist known for his large-scale works based on popular imagery and made from thousands of small objects. He explores the relationship between art and object by creating monumental and ironic compositions. Through his work, Black explores the fragmentation of perception through imagery that is both seen as a whole and a collection of small composite parts. The artist is famous for revisiting the portraits of easily recognizable icons from pop culture. His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows worldwide.
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Damien Hirst Butterfly Spin Painting, 2009 Acrylic on paper, 54 x 68.6 cm - 21.3 x 27 in.
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Damien Hirst Butterfly - Portrait - Life - OC6657, 2009 Etching 47.3 x 39.2 cm - 18.6 x 15.4 in.
Eternal Rest, 2009
Etching, edition of 45 47 x 39 cm - 18.5 x 15.3 in.
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Damien Hirst Butterfly- Portrait - Renewa - OC6651, 2009 Etching, edition of 45 47.3 x 39.3 cm - 18.6 x 15.5 in.
Butterfly - Portrait - Spirit - OC6658, 2011 Etching 47.3 x 39.3 cm - 18.6 x 15.5 in.
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Damien Hirst Soul I – Turquoise – Loganberry Pink, 2010 Foilblock print with Blind impression, editon of 25 72 x 51 cm - 28.3 x 20 in.
Soul I– Loganberry Pink - Oriental Gold – Cornflower Blue, 2010 Foilblock print with Blind impression, edition of 25 72 x 51 cm - 28.3 x 20 in.
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Damien Hirst Psalm: Confitebor tibi, 2009
Silkscreen with diamond dust, edition of 50 74 x 71.5 cm - 29.1 x 28.1 in.
Psalm: Verba mea auribus, 2009
Silkscreen with diamond dust, edition of 50 74 x 71.5 cm - 29.1 x 28.1 in.
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Damien Hirst Psalm - Deus, Deus meus - DIAMOND DUST - OC7642, 2010 Silkscreen print with glaze, edition of 50 74 x 71.5 cm - 29.1 x 28.1 in.
Lanatoside B, 2011
Silkscreen print with Diamond Dust 70 x 63.5 cm - 27.6 x 25 in.
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Damien Hirst For the Love of God - Devotion, 2012 Silkscreen Print, edition of 250 100 x 75 cm - 39.4 x 29.5 in.
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Damien Hirst Love of God - white, 2011
Silkscreen print with glazes and diamond dust on paper, edition of 1000 58.5 x 58.5 cm - 23 x 23 in.
For the Love of God - White - Skull Face Front
Silkscreen with glaze and diamond dust, edition of 1000 58.5 x 43.5 cm - 23 x 17.1 in.
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Damien Hirst Circle Spin Painting, 2009 Acrylic on paper 52.1 x 52.1 cm - 20.5 - 20.5 in.
Beautiful, Galactic, exploding screenprint, 2001 Lithograph, edition of 500 101.6 cm 101.6 cm - 40 x 40 in.
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Damien Hirst Beautiful spread Your Wings, Open Your Mind Painting, 2007 Household gloss on canvas 121.9 x 121.9 cm - 48 x 48 in.
Skull Painting, 2009
Acrylic on paper 71.1 x 50.8 cm - 28 x 20 in.
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Julian Opie Jeremy walking in stripy jumper 1, 2010 Silkscreen on painted wooden board 100 x 56.3 cm - 39.4 x 22.2 in.
This is Monique (Flocking) 19, 2004 Flocking on painted wooden board 85 x 51 cm - 33.5 x 20 in.
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Julian Opie Louisa, student, 2001
C-type print on wooden mount 88.7 x 66.8 cm - 34.9 x 26 in.
Nantra, pool attendant, 2002 Vinyl on wooden stretcher 192 x 150.5 cm -75.6 x 59.2 in.
Grey Umbrella, 2014
Silkscreen on painted wooden board 100 x 50 x 3 cm - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.2 in.
Elly, Gallery Assistant 3, 2001 Vinyl on wooden stretcher 192 x 142 cm - 75.6 x 55.99 in.
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Julian Opie Woman dressed 4, 2002
Vinyl on wooden stretcher 380 x 220 x 3 cm - 149.6 x 86.6 x 1.2 in.
At the museum with Antonia 2, 2011 Inkjet on canvas with brass frame 241 x 141 cm - 55.5 x 55.5 in.
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Julian Opie Ed and Marianela 3, 2010
Vinyl on wooden stretcher 234.5 x 192.5 cm - 92.3 x 75.8 in.
Caterina nude 11, 2009
Silkscreen on painted wooden board 92.5 x 96.5 cm - 36.2 x 38 in.
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David Mach Contortionnistes
Pin heads on foam 30.5 x 21 x 21 cm - 11.8 x 8.3 x 8.3 in.
Sea Whip
Pin hads on foam 60 x 34 x 34 cm - 23.6 x 13.4 x 13.4 in.
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David Mach Superman
Postcards and photographs on wood 183 x 183 cm - 72 x 72 in.
Donald Duck
Postcards and photographs on wood 152.5 x 152.5 cm - 60 x 60 in.
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David Mach Set of Mini Marilyn, 2011
Matchhead, edition of 25 77 x 78 x 22 cm - 30.3 x 30.7 x 8.7 in.
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David Mach King Tutankhamun
Postcards and photographs on wood 183 x 183 cm - 72 x 72 in.
Matisse, 2012
Postcards and photographs on wood 100 x 100 cm - 39.4 x 39.4 in.
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David Mach Tigresse
Postcards and photographs on wood 183 x 152.5 cm - 72 x 60 in.
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David Mach Pucca Cartoon, 2009
Postcards and photographs on wood 122 x 122 cm - 48 x 48 in.
Painted Jezabel
Fluffy Poodle, 2006
183 x 183 cm - 72 x 72 in.
150 x 150 cm - 59 x 59 in.
Postcards and photographs on wood
Postcards and photographs on wood
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Marc Quinn Nurseries of El Dorado, Brassiac or Chromatic, 2008 Chromed Bronze H: 98 cm - 38.6 in.
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Marc Quinn Sphinx, 2008
Watercolour on paper 152.5 x 101.5 cm - 60 x 40 in
Siren, 2007
Watercolour on paper 152.5 x 101.5 cm - 60 x 40 in.
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Marc Quinn Kate in blue or Sphinx steels road Watercolour on paper 152.5 x 101.5 cm - 60 x 40 in.
Spinner Kate, 2008
Watercolour on paper 152.5 x 101.5 cm - 60 x 40 in.
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Joe Black Untitled 2 (Saving Grace), 2014
2,000 hand-painted Diecast toy cars on aluminium with resin coating 196 x 131 x 10 cm - 77.2 x 51.6 x 3.9 in.
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