Damien Hirst Away" in 1994 at the Serpentine Gallery in London, where he exhibited "Away from the Flock" (a sheep in a tank of formaldehyde). On 9 May, Mark Bridger, a 35-year-old artist from Oxford, walked into the gallery and poured black ink into the tank, and retitled the work "Black Sheep". He was subsequently prosecuted, at Hirst's wish, and was given two years' probation. The sculpture was restored at a cost of £1,000. When a photograph of "Away from the Flock" was reproduced in the 1997 book by Hirst "I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone,
Damien Hirst to the state-funded gallery accusing it of wasting taxpayers' money by showcasing art that was 'repetitive', 'meaningless' and 'almost universally awful'. " In 1999, chef Marco Pierre White said Hirst's "Butterflies on Mars" had plagiarised his own work, "Rising Sun", which he then put on display in the restaurant Quo Vadis in place of the Hirst work. In 2000, Hirst was sued for breach of copyright over his sculpture, "Hymn", which was a , six ton, enlargement of his son Connor's 14" "Young Scientist Anatomy Set", designed by Norman Emms, 10,000 of which are sold a year by Hull-based toy