12
December 2024

Damien Hirst

The Arts Society Teignbridge
Thursday, December 12, 2024 - 10:30
Courtenay Centre
Kingsteignton Road Newton Abbot TQ12 2QA
Online Event

This lecture aims to show the serious side behind the headlines, his artistic origins, his influences, and why he makes what he does.

This lecture aims to show the serious side behind the headlines, his artistic origins, his influences, and why he makes what he does. Looking at various repeating themes, the lecture gives an overview of his career showing how his work is innovative, daring, and challenging. It is not aimed to convert those who are sceptics but will help to put him in context.

THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Mr David Worthington

David Worthington has been drawn to abstract sculpture since seeing a Barbara Hepworth in a school history book aged 10. He graduated from Oxford University in 1984 with a degree in Philosophy and Theology, then studied fine art in London, Barcelona and New York. A maker he also curates and writes about art. He was shortlisted for the Jerwood Sculpture Prize in 2009.

David is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Sculptors, and was Vice President in 2010-13.

He has carried out public commissions in the UK, America and Japan. His work is in the museum the Creative Cities Collection Beijing China. He has had solo shows at the Lefevre Gallery, Sladers Yard, Horatio’s Garden, the William Bennington Gallery, the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and in October 2017 at the Lightbox Gallery Museum, Woking. He took part in exhibitions at Colyer Bristow Gallery and Contemporary Sculpture at Fulmer 2018.