But then the opportunity came to make an actual piece of art myself for the magazine: with none other than Damien Hirst, who invited me along to Covent Garden to make one of his iconic spin paintings.
His art is celebrated and derided in equal measure. But Damien Hirst is in no doubt about his talent - and for good reason. "If I put it in a skip outside a pub, would someone take it home?
A series of works by Turner Prize-winning artist Damien Hirst will be exhibited in Guernsey over the Christmas period. The Conversations with Hirst exhibition, run by Art for Guernsey, is on from ...
The Turner Prize nominee, 61, made the observation on The Louis Theroux Podcast, describing her contemporary Damien Hirst ... “Damien was a young artist that started off with a lot of that ...