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Damien Hirst & Invader — Spotted Invader 3

Spotted Invader 3

2025

Spotted Invader 3 continues and deepens the visual conversation established in the series, further exploring the productive tension between Damien Hirst's systematic dot-based compositions and Invader's pixelated, game-world iconography rendered in ceramic tile. As the third iteration, this work implies a series logic — much like both artists' own practice of seriality, from Hirst's vast spot painting catalog to Invader's numbered urban invasions across world cities — suggesting that repetition itself is a meaningful artistic act rather than a limitation. The ceramic tiles and enamel paint on acrylic carry the tactile weight of public installations, grounding a work that might otherwise feel purely conceptual in the physical tradition of mosaic-making stretching back to antiquity. The collision of Hirst's color-field precision with the blocky, gridded geometry of Invader's style creates a visual vibration where organic and digital, random and calculated, appear to negotiate territory on the same surface. Spotted Invader 3 stands as a reminder that the grid — whether in a spot painting, a tile mosaic, or a video game — is one of art's most enduring and philosophically loaded structures.

Medium
Ceramic tiles and enamel paint on acrylic
Dimensions

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Damien Hirst & Invader, Spotted Invader 3, 2025

Spotted Invader 3 continues and deepens the visual conversation established in the series, further exploring the productive tension between Damien Hirst's systematic dot-based compositions and Invader's pixelated, game-world iconography rendered in ceramic tile. As the third iteration, this work implies a series logic — much like both artists' own practice of seriality, from Hirst's vast spot painting catalog to Invader's numbered urban invasions across world cities — suggesting that repetition itself is a meaningful artistic act rather than a limitation. The ceramic tiles and enamel paint on acrylic carry the tactile weight of public installations, grounding a work that might otherwise feel purely conceptual in the physical tradition of mosaic-making stretching back to antiquity. The collision of Hirst's color-field precision with the blocky, gridded geometry of Invader's style creates a visual vibration where organic and digital, random and calculated, appear to negotiate territory on the same surface. Spotted Invader 3 stands as a reminder that the grid — whether in a spot painting, a tile mosaic, or a video game — is one of art's most enduring and philosophically loaded structures.

Medium
Ceramic tiles and enamel paint on acrylic
Dimensions
122 x 180.3 cm
Year
2025
Seen at
HENI, London, United Kingdom

Related themes

Street Art, Ceramic Tiles, Mixed Media, 2020s, Digital Aesthetic, Contemporary Art, Pixel art style, Bright Colors, British, Playful Mood

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