Cancer chronicles damien hirst biography
The Cancer Chronicles is a collection of thirteen poems by the artist Damien Hirst....
This collection of 13 poems was written by Damien Hirst, produced to accompany his exhibition 'Romance in the Age of Uncertainty' at White Cube.
Damien Hirst
Hirst was born in 1965 in Bristol, grew up in Leeds and moved to London in 1984. While studying at Goldsmiths School of Art from 1986-89, Hirst invented two fundamental series: his ongoing ‘Spot Paintings’, made up of meticulously rendered spheres of random colours arranged in perfect grid systems; and his ‘Medicine Cabinets’, an early investigation into science, medicine and systems of belief and trust that resurfaces across his oeuvre.
In 1992, Hirst unveiled arguably his most iconic work ‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’ (1991), a four-metre-long tiger shark preserved in a tank of formaldehyde, and inserted his ‘Natural History’ series into the public consciousness.
These sculptures simultaneously confront viewers with their own mortality and the unavoidable fate of death.
Hirst’s enduring confrontations with death emerge again in his butterfly works. Since his 1991 exhibitio
