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 and giving them concrete existence in sculptural form with works like "A Thousand Years". Hirst gained the European record for the most expensive work of art by a living artist—his "Lullaby Spring" in June 2007, when a 3-metre-wide steel cabinet with 6,136 pills sold for 19.2 million dollars to Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar. In June 2007, "Beyond Belief", an exhibition of Hirst's new work, opened at the White Cube gallery in London. The centre-piece, a Memento Mori titled "For the Love of God", was a human skull recreated in platinum and adorned with 8,601 diamonds