Biografie

7. Juni 1965 · Bristol, England, Vereinigtes Königreich

English artist, whose sculpture "For The Love of God", a human skull enrolled with diamonds, was sold for 50 million pound. This makes him the most expensive living artist (30 August 2007).

After his father, a car salesman, had left the family, he was raised by his mother Mary alone, saying she lost control of him when he was young.

Lives with his wife Maia and their three sons Connor Hirst (born in 1995), Francis (born in 2002) and Cyrus (born in 2007) in a 300 year old remote farmhouse in north Devon.

I think anything done super-well is art. And it could be a great meal or it could be a great meeting. Artists make art from what's around them.

I think money is as complicated as love. I probably have a fear that money might turn out to be more important than art.

It's amazing what you can do with an E in Art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.