I Can See You - by Paddy Summerfield c. 1986

Thursday, March 19, 2026

Damien Hirst vs Cartrain - DACS fights copyright infringement for artists everywhere!

 CARTRAIN vs DAMIEN HIRST!


Interview of London Artist Cartrain about Damien Hirst. Stolen Pencils for the Tate Modern Gallery. For the Love of God Diamond Skull, image copyright. 100Artworks.com



Urban Art Association


The truth Hirst [sic]: how Damien Hirst got trolled so hard he had a 16 year old arrested (sic?)

"Like clockwork, it seemingly happens to everyone, and if you look with your empathetic hat on, you can see where it comes from. When starting out as an artist, rejection and ridicule become part of everyday life, especially as a creative who operates out of the ordinary. You will put yourself out there, with your unusual style, and a whole lot of people will laugh in your face or, possibly even more hurtfully, shrug their shoulders and never think about it again for as long as they live.

If you can’t get through that, you probably won’t ever be an artist again. However, something seems to happen when an artist successfully breaks through into the mainstream, where they stop actually engaging with anyone who doesn’t believe in their work.

Hirst became the very picture of this phenomenon for both good and ill after his imperial phase in the mid-1990s. Only a true hater would say that Hirst wasn’t a genuinely interesting artistic voice in his prime, but the moment the millennium came and went, something seemed to snap. Suddenly, he had all the ego of an artist of his reputation… with none of the work to show for it.

Thus, when a 16-year-old boy started messing with his work, Hirst went on the warpath". Will Howard

Afraid I don’t agree with Will Howard here

Check the amounts of money if you think Damien is doing anything less than standing up for his own artwork which has been purloined and misused just like so many musicians do with sampling these days - you pays for these ya know! Ask permission!

£192?!

No mention of his stealing the pencils you willl note!!!

You GET the point right?

I side with the artist here and aways will!

It’s called a principle no matter your religious beliefs!

Cartrain states he is not really in favour of the anti-religion post of the piece

thus making the 16 year old "anti-anti-religion”!! . . .and the THEFT?

 

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