BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 26th April 2020
From The Clash to Joni Mitchell. Artist Damian Hirst shares his castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From 2013.
Life, death, desire, fear, beauty, horror - his creative preoccupations are standard fair; his art - using sharks, maggots, butterflies, glass, formaldehyde and even sometimes paint - is not. His best known works have become iconic symbols of contemporary culture and his exhibitions and auctions attract attention the way a carcass attracts flies.
Growing up in Leeds his mother was something of an early artistic influence - she had dots painted on the front door and whenever Damien said he'd finished a drawing, she'd lay another sheet of paper down and tell her son "carry on."
He once said, "People don't like contemporary art but all art starts life as contemporary. I'm sure there were people in caves going 'I like your cave but I hate that crap you've got on the wall'."
Producer: Cathy Drysdale.
The Clash - The Magnificent Seven [Epic Legacy]
The Trashmen - Surfin’ Bird [Cascade]
Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi [KM]
The Beatles - Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey [Britannia Music]
Bob Andy - You Don’t Know [Andisongs]
Ian Brown - F.E.A.R [Polydor]
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - X Ray Style [Mercury]
The Stone Roses - I Am the Resurrection [Sony]
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