Damien Hirst was a shark in formaldehyde in a vitrine, and sold for £50,000. The shark had been caught by a commissioned fisherman in Australia and had cost £6,000. The exhibition also included "In a Thousand Years". As a result of the show, Hirst was nominated for that year's Turner Prize, but it was awarded to Grenville Davey. Hirst's first major international presentation was in the Venice Biennale in 1993 with the work, "Mother and Child Divided", a cow and a calf cut into sections and exhibited in a series of separate vitrines. He curated the show "Some Went Mad, Some Ran
Flowers in Formaldehyde most pop-oriented work yet. "Flowers in Formaldehyde" was re-issued the following year as part of the rarities box set "Like a Corpse Standing in Desperation". Apocalyptic Vision explained that extensive counterfeiting of the EP was cause for its inclusion in the set. Flowers in Formaldehyde "Flowers in Formaldehyde" is the second EP by darkwave band Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows, and was released in 2004 as a companion to the album "La Chambre D'Echo - Where the Dead Birds sing". Only 2,000 CDs and 700 LPs were pressed. Originally announced as "The Adventures of Ms Penny Dreadful", "Flowers"