Damien Hirst's shark is considered one of the most iconic works of British art in the 1990s and helped make its creator the darling of the British postmodern art movement.

The massive tiger shark was caught off Hervey Bay in Queensland to the artist's specifications and then preserved in a formaldehyde solution. It sold in 2004 for a rumoured $12 million.

An inflatable Damien Hirst head with mask and snorkel remarks on the commercialism of that earlier artwork, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living,  and is bound to become one of the more arresting images of this year's Sculpture by the Sea [Sydney].

Read more:

https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/damien-hirst-sculptu...

Hum... sorry to interrupt here... This big head was already displayed at Sculpture by the Sea in Perth earlier this year, as this picture by Gus Leonisky can prove.

But now that our royals have made "Rain In Dubbo" — a living sculpture of a "PRETTY Princess Holding an Umbrella over a Non-Struggling Red-Haired Prince, Delivering a Speech About Farmers' Struggle" — thus smashing the dry spell (as planned by the English Privy Council), in which farmers have been tearing their hair off, to prove the absolute power of the Monarchy over the republicans who would not be able to make a storm like this, we can only praise their "democratic benevolence" agenda which is the same as the previous heirs to the throne of Pommyland since 1900, in this country of extreme weather and of deluded CONservative politics. 

Note: the picture used in the Sydney Morning Herald was also taken at Cottesloe Beach, Perth.