Artist famous for pickling dead animals in the 1990s to destroy the artworks at his London gallery

Damien Hirst, the artist famous for pickling dead animals in the 1990s, is to burn thousands of his paintings next month in a project focusing on art as currency.

Hirst, who was the UK’s richest artist in 2020 with a net worth of more than £315m, will destroy the artworks at his London gallery.

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