H10-5 Taytu Betul
Condition reports and provenance available upon request
About This Work
Damien Hirst’s *H10-5 Taytu Betul* extends the artist’s sustained enquiry into colour, chance and the mechanics of looking. Built through a rigorous, serial approach, the work’s chromatic structure reads at once as system and sensation—balancing clinical precision with optical pleasure. Layered surface decisions and calibrated spacing create a rhythm that shifts with viewing distance, inviting the eye to oscillate between individual marks and the image as a whole. The title’s reference to Taytu Betul, Empress of Ethiopia, adds cultural resonance, reframing abstraction through histories of power, patronage and modernity. Positioned within Hirst’s broader contemporary practice, the work is both collectible and conceptually charged, fusing studio discipline with cultural address.
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...
View Full Artist Profile →Zebra One Gallery
Contemporary Art • Hampstead, London
Established 1976 • 50 years of excellence in contemporary art • Professional authentication and provenance research