Name: All Around The World
Brand: Damien Hirst
Rating: 5 (231 reviews)

Meaning & Analysis

This signed etching from 2002 is a limited edition of 68 from Damien Hirst’s first volume of the In A Spin, The Action Of The World Upon Things portfolio. The print depicts concentric circles in the centre of the composition, rendered in crayon like strokes of red, yellow, orange and grey.

All Around The World is an etching from 2002 by Damien Hirst from the first volume of his In A Spin, The Action Of The World Upon Things series. The print depicts concentric circles in the centre of the composition, rendered in crayon like strokes of red, yellow, orange and grey.

Abstraction has been a key part of Hirst’s oeuvre since the mid-1990s. This series of prints is related to Hirst’s spin paintings that have become an iconic set of abstract works. These paintings were created with a rotating canvas attached to a spin machine, onto which he poured paint. All Around the World is produced with copper plates attached to the spin machine, with the concentric circular lines drawn with needles, screwdrivers, and other sharp tools as they spun.

It is only in the later stages of Hirst’s career that he has become interested in prints and editions. His first print portfolio was produced in 1999 and were a set of screen prints that depicted medicine bottle labels. Since his first print portfolio, Hirst has ventured into the technique of etching like the prints in the In A Spin, The Action Of The World Upon Things Vol. I and II.