Provenance

Gifted directly to present owner after working with artist on a Film Set in London, 2010

Artist's label Science,13 - 14 Welbeck Street, London W1G 9XU affixed verso

Darbyshire Frames, London label affixed verso

From 1995 Damien Hirst started a series of spin paintings. His finished pieces are circular in shape and mounted onto steel frames. This is a series of original works of art and screen prints. He was inspired by memories of the technique of spin painting which he saw as a child on the BBC's Blue Peter. In the Gaurdian, August 2012, Hirst quotes "I grew up with Blue Peter. I got my idea for the spin paintings from an episode in the 1970s." Hirst adds: "I never thought it was real art. I remember thinking: 'That's fun, whereas art is something more serious.' And then as I got older, I started thinking about Van Gogh and all those painters, and cutting your ear off when you're painting, and at that point I just thought: 'Why does it have to be like that?' I thought: 'No, actually, the better art is the art made with the spin machine.'"

Damien Steven Hirst is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He is the most prominent member of the group known as the Young British Artists (or YBAs), who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. Hirst is internationally recognised and is reportedly the United Kingdom's richest living artist, with his assets valued at £215m in the 2010 Sunday Times Rich List.