Passions: Damien Hirst By Harry Hill
- TV comedy
- Sky Arts
- 2017
- 1 episode
Harry Hill pays homage to artist Damien Hirst via a mockumentary. Also features Julian Opie, Billee Sellman Sharp, Richard Salmon, Michael Landy, Fiona Rae and more.
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Preview - Passions: Damien Hurst by Harry Hill
From picked dissected sharks to diamond-covered skulls, you can perhaps see the connection in style between the art of Damien Hurst and the surreal comedy of Harry Hill.
Ian Wolf, On The Box, 18th April 2017The Passions series has been tremendous fun and for one simple reason - the guest presenters have clearly been given artistic control. This results in distinctive, flavoursome documentaries, a far cry from the pallid, Identikit efforts from certain other channels. Tonight's is the best of the lot as the comedian Harry Hill explores the work of Damien Hurst and explains how the artist inspired his career. This is no ordinary documentary: Hill has fun taking the mickey out of art-doc tropes and the result is playful, anarchic, amusing, silly, meaningful and meaningless - rather like Hirst's art.
Chris Bennion, The Times, 18th April 2017