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Shepard Fairey & Damien Hirst — Off the Bone

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.

Medium
Household gloss and spray paint on canvas
Dimensions

Notes

Triple collaboration: Shepard Fairey x Damien Hirst x Invader

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Shepard Fairey & Damien Hirst, 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.

Medium
Household gloss and spray paint on canvas
Dimensions
254 x 152.4 cm
Year
2025
Seen at
HENI, London, United Kingdom

Related themes

Mixed Media Technique, American Street Art, Urban Culture, Street Art Aesthetic, Conceptual Art, Spray Paint, Bold Graphics, Expressive Mark Making, Contemporary Painting, 2020s Era

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Alex Capecelatro, Hamilton Selway Gallery