Art intervention Serpentine Gallery in London, where he exhibited "Away from the Flock" (a sheep in a tank). An artist poured black ink into it, and was subsequently prosecuted, at Hirst's wish. The artist's defence was that he thought Hirst would benefit from the publicity and one critic (Tony Parsons) said the artist's action proved that what Damien Hirst does is art. The exhibit was restored at a cost of £1000. A notable case of an unauthorised intervention—which did no damage, yet was still liable for prosecution—occurred at 12.58 p.m. on October 25, 1999, when two artists, Yuan Chai and Jian Jun
Damien Hirst Curator Derek Culley 1988 – Damien Hirst: Constructions and Sculpture, Old Court Gallery, Windsor, UK -Curator Derek Culley 1988 – Freeze, Surrey Docks, London, UK 1989 – New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK 1990 – Modern Medicine, Building One, London, UK 1990 – Gambler, Building One, London, UK 1990 – Building One, Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery, Paris, FR His first solo exhibition, organised by Tamara Chodzko – Dial, "In and Out of Love", was held in an unused shop on Woodstock Street in central London in 1991; already in 1989 he had been part of a group exhibition at