Join The Collection to save, track, and explore works like this.

Shepard Fairey & Damien Hirst — Rock'n'Roll

Rock'n'Roll

2025

'Rock'n'Roll' crackles with irreverent energy, merging Shepard Fairey's countercultural graphic sensibility with Damien Hirst's pharmaceutical iconography through a striking combination of PVC tiles and pills on painted paper. The title invokes the mythology of excess — drugs, rebellion, and the rock star lifestyle — giving the pill-based medium a knowing, almost celebratory edge that simultaneously critiques and revels in that cultural archetype. Fairey's bold, layered painterly background provides a stage-ready visual backdrop, while the structured placement of pills echoes Hirst's methodical spot and cabinet works, grounding spectacle in systemic order. The PVC tiles introduce a street-level materiality, nodding to both artists' roots in public and accessible art spaces. As a collaboration, this piece captures the Triple Trouble ethos most viscerally — irreverence, craftsmanship, and cultural provocation fused into a single, kinetic surface.

Medium
PVC tiles and pills on painted paper
Dimensions

Notes

Triple collaboration: Shepard Fairey x Damien Hirst x Invader

For Sale

Start the Discussion

Request access to join the discussion

Collectors of Shepard Fairey

Also spotted by

About this work

Shepard Fairey & Damien Hirst, Rock'n'Roll, 2025

'Rock'n'Roll' crackles with irreverent energy, merging Shepard Fairey's countercultural graphic sensibility with Damien Hirst's pharmaceutical iconography through a striking combination of PVC tiles and pills on painted paper. The title invokes the mythology of excess — drugs, rebellion, and the rock star lifestyle — giving the pill-based medium a knowing, almost celebratory edge that simultaneously critiques and revels in that cultural archetype. Fairey's bold, layered painterly background provides a stage-ready visual backdrop, while the structured placement of pills echoes Hirst's methodical spot and cabinet works, grounding spectacle in systemic order. The PVC tiles introduce a street-level materiality, nodding to both artists' roots in public and accessible art spaces. As a collaboration, this piece captures the Triple Trouble ethos most viscerally — irreverence, craftsmanship, and cultural provocation fused into a single, kinetic surface.

Medium
PVC tiles and pills on painted paper
Dimensions
152 x 111 cm
Year
2025
Seen at
HENI, London, United Kingdom

Related themes

Collaborative Work, Mixed Media, American Artist, Colorful Palette, Music Subject, Contemporary Art, 2020s Era, Pop Culture, Playful Mood, Experimental Technique

More works by Shepard Fairey

Collected by

Alex Capecelatro, Hamilton Selway Gallery