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Shepard Fairey & Damien Hirst — Beautiful Lotus Ornament Spin Painting

Beautiful Lotus Ornament Spin Painting

2025

Beautiful Lotus Ornament Spin Painting represents one of the most symbolically charged collaborations in the Triple Trouble collection, merging Damien Hirst's iconic spin painting process with Shepard Fairey's ornamental graphic sensibility. Executed in household gloss and spray paint on canvas, the work bridges Hirst's embrace of industrial and domestic materials — long a statement about the commercialization of art — with Fairey's street-derived spray technique, creating a surface that feels simultaneously mechanical and hand-crafted. Hirst's spin paintings, born from the centrifugal force of a rotating canvas, evoke themes of chance, chaos, and cosmic order, while the lotus motif Fairey introduces carries deep symbolism of beauty emerging from murk and spiritual transcendence. The pairing of these two artists highlights a productive tension: Hirst's process-driven abstraction colliding with Fairey's deliberate, symbolically loaded imagery. Together they produce a work that meditates on creation itself — both the randomness of natural forces and the intentionality of human mark-making.

Medium
Household gloss and spray paint on canvas

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Shepard Fairey & Damien Hirst, Beautiful Lotus Ornament Spin Painting, 2025

Beautiful Lotus Ornament Spin Painting represents one of the most symbolically charged collaborations in the Triple Trouble collection, merging Damien Hirst's iconic spin painting process with Shepard Fairey's ornamental graphic sensibility. Executed in household gloss and spray paint on canvas, the work bridges Hirst's embrace of industrial and domestic materials — long a statement about the commercialization of art — with Fairey's street-derived spray technique, creating a surface that feels simultaneously mechanical and hand-crafted. Hirst's spin paintings, born from the centrifugal force of a rotating canvas, evoke themes of chance, chaos, and cosmic order, while the lotus motif Fairey introduces carries deep symbolism of beauty emerging from murk and spiritual transcendence. The pairing of these two artists highlights a productive tension: Hirst's process-driven abstraction colliding with Fairey's deliberate, symbolically loaded imagery. Together they produce a work that meditates on creation itself — both the randomness of natural forces and the intentionality of human mark-making.

Medium
Household gloss and spray paint on canvas
Year
2025
Seen at
HENI, London, United Kingdom

Related themes

Street Art, Dynamic Movement, American, Spray Paint, Collaborative, Vibrant Energy, Fine Art Fusion, Ornamental Design, Contemporary, Canvas-based

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Alex Capecelatro, Hamilton Selway Gallery