Hirst’s fly and wall show
Damien Hirst merchandise, from a deckchair to a plastic skull, is on sale for eye-watering price tags of up to £36,800 at the first UK retrospective of the controversial British artist.
The items can be snapped up at Tate Modern’s highly-anticipated show, entitled Damien Hirst, which features some new work in the form of diamond and butterfly-decorated wallpaper, and highlights from the 46-year-old’s phenomenally successful career.
Visitors will be assaulted by the smell of dying insects and a rotting cow’s head in A Thousand Years (1990), where flies emerge from maggots, eat from the animal’s head and die on an Insectocutor.
For The Love Of God, the human skull covered in 8,601 flawless diamonds – the work Hirst says he is most proud of – has its own security.