Damien Hirst

An incredible blue on the cover, that makes me think of the outside cover of my book

This crop version concentrates on the detail you would observe when seeing the real thing. I love how this is positioned in the book almost if its swimming into the pages. 

Hirst’s photobook, Damien Hirst: pictures from the Saatchi Gallery is just as colourful as his work. The butterflies are zoomed in to concentrate on the detail of the series Out of Love. Viewing his work as an installation and a photobook, I believe his books give his work the right justification and element of how powerful his work can be. 

His butterflies I believe is one of his strongest installations. 
Documenting butterflies recently it has given me perspective of how beautiful and individual they are. I think they deserve to be in a exhibition because they are a exhibition themselves.




I love the text that is printed over the image. The layout works well as the you can read the text easily as well as looking at the image,
This is what I want to do for the answer pages.










I loved this room, it was very child friendly and showed a observation of colour, movement and patterns. 


Artist, Damien Hirst was a huge influence upon my book as colour, text and life’s questions run throughout his work. In a recent documentary (Damien Hirst: The First Look, 2012, April 2nd) on Channel Four, Hirst and Noel Fielding take the first look through his retrospective exhibition at the Tate Modern Gallery, London.  When walking around the installations he talks about serious subjects including death and life but it witty manner. When viewing his work, he finds children appreciate and understand more than adults. (Hirst, 2012) I found this comment interesting as “Curious Questions for Inquisitive Minds” is happy, light-hearted book that children enjoy, however deals with the questions about our world that we still do not know.




Here at the retrospective for his work, I can finally walk around his works and understand exactly what makes him so unique. 
This was fantastic to circle, as you can’t circle a shark, I loved the size of it, however I loved the detailed and going really close to it to investigate the bubbles frozen off the sides of his body. This is a real captivating body of work, that has taken me years just to see photographs in books and newspapers. But finally when looking at it, I felt like it was famous!