
Off the Bone
2025
'Off the Bone' brings together Shepard Fairey and Damien Hirst in a viscerally striking work executed in household gloss and spray paint on canvas — a deliberately unrefined materials choice that grounds the piece in both street art immediacy and Hirst's longstanding interest in mortality and the body. The title's slang connotation of something excessive or extraordinary plays against a darker anatomical reading, a duality that sits comfortably within Hirst's career-long obsession with flesh, death, and spectacle. Fairey's spray paint and stencil vocabulary collides with Hirst's iconographic weight, and the use of household gloss introduces an industrial sheen that recalls Hirst's spot paintings — clinical, serial, and faintly unsettling in their beauty. The choice to work on canvas rather than paper or board signals a deliberate alignment with the traditions of fine art even as the materials and process subvert those conventions. Together, the two artists produce a work that is simultaneously street-born and gallery-destined, interrogating where the boundaries of legitimate art-making truly lie.
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- Household gloss and spray paint on canvas
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Triple collaboration: Shepard Fairey x Damien Hirst x Invader
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