Ever keep on keeping up
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About This Work
Damien Hirst’s *Ever keep on keeping up* exemplifies the artist’s coolly conceptual approach to painting as both image and system. Employing a rigorously repeated motif and high-key colour, Hirst foregrounds process—seriality, calibration, and the controlled accident—over traditional expressionism. The surface reads as meticulously constructed yet optically vibrant, aligning with his long-standing investigation into desire, consumption, and the aesthetics of spectacle. Positioned within the lineage of postwar Pop and conceptual art, the work’s punchy immediacy resonates with contemporary attention economies, where repetition becomes persuasion and colour becomes currency. Hirst’s technique—precise application, emphasis on finish, and strategic visual rhythm—delivers an artwork that is at once seductive, analytical, and culturally attuned.
About the Artist
Damien Hirst was born in 1965 in Bristol and grew up in Leeds. In 1984 he moved to London, where he worked in construction before studying for a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths college from 1986 to 1989. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1995. Since the late 1980’s, Hirst has used a varied practise of...
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