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Shepard Fairey — Flower Study with Hirst Butterflies 2
Shepard Fairey

Flower Study with Hirst Butterflies 2

2025

Flower Study with Hirst Butterflies 2 is perhaps the most explicitly collaborative and symbolically rich work in Fairey's series for Triple Trouble, directly incorporating Damien Hirst's iconic butterfly motifs into Fairey's own floral graphic vocabulary, creating a genuine visual dialogue between two of contemporary art's most recognizable aesthetic systems. The butterflies — central to Hirst's celebrated and controversial works exploring beauty, death, and transformation — are woven into Fairey's stencil and silkscreen framework, where they take on additional layers of meaning as symbols of fragile beauty navigating a world structured by power and propaganda. Fairey's characteristic flat color fields and bold linework provide the compositional architecture, while the Hirst butterflies introduce an element of delicate, organic unpredictability, the tension between control and nature becoming a central theme. As a 'study,' the work positions this cross-pollination of artistic identities as an act of genuine inquiry, exploring what emerges when two distinct artistic philosophies are placed in genuine conversation rather than mere proximity. Within the Triple Trouble collaboration, Flower Study with Hirst Butterflies 2 stands as a powerful emblem of the project's core ambition: to discover what new meaning arises at the intersection of street art's confrontational populism and fine art's meditative beauty.

Medium
Mixed media (stencil, silkscreen and collage) on paper
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Shepard Fairey, Flower Study with Hirst Butterflies 2, 2025

Flower Study with Hirst Butterflies 2 is perhaps the most explicitly collaborative and symbolically rich work in Fairey's series for Triple Trouble, directly incorporating Damien Hirst's iconic butterfly motifs into Fairey's own floral graphic vocabulary, creating a genuine visual dialogue between two of contemporary art's most recognizable aesthetic systems. The butterflies — central to Hirst's celebrated and controversial works exploring beauty, death, and transformation — are woven into Fairey's stencil and silkscreen framework, where they take on additional layers of meaning as symbols of fragile beauty navigating a world structured by power and propaganda. Fairey's characteristic flat color fields and bold linework provide the compositional architecture, while the Hirst butterflies introduce an element of delicate, organic unpredictability, the tension between control and nature becoming a central theme. As a 'study,' the work positions this cross-pollination of artistic identities as an act of genuine inquiry, exploring what emerges when two distinct artistic philosophies are placed in genuine conversation rather than mere proximity. Within the Triple Trouble collaboration, Flower Study with Hirst Butterflies 2 stands as a powerful emblem of the project's core ambition: to discover what new meaning arises at the intersection of street art's confrontational populism and fine art's meditative beauty.

Medium
Mixed media (stencil, silkscreen and collage) on paper
Dimensions
78.7 x 56.4 cm
Year
2025
Seen at
HENI, London, United Kingdom

Related themes

Street Art, American, Botanical, Mixed Media, Decorative, Nature Study, Ornamental, Floral Art, Vibrant Colors, Contemporary

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Alex Capecelatro, Hamilton Selway Gallery