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VIII Jesus Meets the Women of Jerusalem - The Ascension (His final message), Damien Hirst 2005. Silkscreen print on Somerset 410 gsm satin. Edition of 80. This work comes from the series entitled "New Religion - Stations of the Cross".

Damien Hirst was born in Bristol in 1965. He first came to public attention in 1988 when he conceived and curated ‘Freeze’, an exhibition of his own work and that of his contemporaries at Goldsmiths college, staged in a disused London warehouse. Since this time Hirst has become widely recognized as one of the most influential artists of his generation. Through a varied practice of installation, sculpture, painting and drawing Hirst has sought to explore the complex relationship between art, life and death. Alongside over 80 solo exhibitions he has worked on numerous curatorial projects. In 2008, Hirst took the unprecedented step of bypassing gallery involvement in selling 244 new works at a Sotheby’s, London auction entitled ‘Beautiful Inside My Head Forever’. Hirst was awarded the Turner Prize in 1995 and his contribution to British art over the last two and a half decades has been acknowledged in a major solo retrospective currently being exhibited at Tate Modern, London. He lives in Devon and has studios in Gloucester and London. For more information on the artist, please visit damienhirst.com. Text © Damien Hirst & Science Ltd., All rights reserved, 2012

Paul Stolper Gallery - Paul Stolper Gallery’s inaugural show at Museum Street in London was ‘Peter Saville: Accessories to an Artwork’, which opened in October 2008, with commissioned works for the exhibition by Cerith Wynn Evans, Thomas Demand, Douglas Gordon and Jeremy Deller among others. Paul Stolper Gallery is a publisher of contemporary fine art prints and a commercial gallery that exhibits a wide variety of prints and unique works. Paul Stolper Gallery works directly with a number of important contemporary artists as well as emerging artists to produce unique artworks, art publications, limited edition prints, photographs and sculptural works. In September 2011 a second gallery was opened in Oslo called STOLPER + FRIENDS, exhibiting British and international artists, as well as supporting emerging Norwegian art.