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Damien Hirst & Invader — Garbage Jack

Garbage Jack

2025

Garbage Jack pushes the conceptual provocation of the Hirst-Invader series to a visceral extreme, using ashtray contents as both subject and substance in a work that refuses to sanitize its own materiality. The choice of cigarette ash, filters, and debris as a fine art medium is a knowing nod to Hirst's career-long interrogation of death and consumption, while the structured application alongside acrylic and paint suggests Invader's disciplined, pixel-perfect approach to composition. The title 'Garbage Jack' evokes a roguish street archetype, blending the countercultural energy of urban art with Hirst's theatrical conceptualism, as if the artwork itself has been named after the character it embodies. There is a subversive humor at play — the work dares collectors and institutions to assign value to what would otherwise be swept from a casino floor or pub table. In doing so, Garbage Jack becomes a sharp commentary on the arbitrary hierarchies of taste, class, and artistic legitimacy.

Medium
Contents of ashtray on canvas, acrylic and paint
Dimensions

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Damien Hirst & Invader, Garbage Jack, 2025

Garbage Jack pushes the conceptual provocation of the Hirst-Invader series to a visceral extreme, using ashtray contents as both subject and substance in a work that refuses to sanitize its own materiality. The choice of cigarette ash, filters, and debris as a fine art medium is a knowing nod to Hirst's career-long interrogation of death and consumption, while the structured application alongside acrylic and paint suggests Invader's disciplined, pixel-perfect approach to composition. The title 'Garbage Jack' evokes a roguish street archetype, blending the countercultural energy of urban art with Hirst's theatrical conceptualism, as if the artwork itself has been named after the character it embodies. There is a subversive humor at play — the work dares collectors and institutions to assign value to what would otherwise be swept from a casino floor or pub table. In doing so, Garbage Jack becomes a sharp commentary on the arbitrary hierarchies of taste, class, and artistic legitimacy.

Medium
Contents of ashtray on canvas, acrylic and paint
Dimensions
41.8 x 31.8 cm
Year
2025
Seen at
HENI, London, United Kingdom

Related themes

Dark, Assemblage, Transgressive, Conceptual, Mixed Media, Collaborative, Provocative, British, Found Objects, Contemporary

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Collected by

Alex Capecelatro, Sarah Greenspan, Hamilton Selway Gallery, Brittany Laques