
Troubled Waters
2025
Troubled Waters stands as one of the most dynamic pieces in the Triple Trouble collection, merging Shepard Fairey's street-art sensibility with Damien Hirst's iconic visual language into a single charged canvas. The combination of acrylic, spray paint, and enamel-coated card creates a layered tension between the raw immediacy of urban mark-making and the polished, commercial finish associated with Hirst's studio practice. Fairey's signature bold linework and propaganda-poster aesthetic collide with Hirst's spot or pharmaceutical motifs, producing a work that feels simultaneously urgent and meditative. The title itself evokes instability and crisis, themes both artists have long navigated — Hirst through mortality and institutional critique, Fairey through political dissent and the OBEY movement. Together, the piece functions as a visual manifesto about navigating uncertainty in contemporary culture.
- Medium
- Acrylic, spray paint and enamel coated card on canvas
- Dimensions
Notes
Triple collaboration: Shepard Fairey x Damien Hirst x Invader
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