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 bypassing his long-standing galleries. The auction raised £111 million ($198 million), breaking the record for a one-artist auction as well as Hirst's own record with £10.3 million for "The Golden Calf", an animal with 18-carat gold horns and hooves, preserved in formaldehyde. In several instances since 1999, Hirst's works have been challenged and contested as plagiarised. In one instance, after his sculpture "Hymn" was found to be closely based on a child's toy, legal proceedings led to an out-of-court settlement. Hirst was born as Damien Steven Brennan in Bristol and grew up in Leeds. He never met his father; his