- English artist, whose sculpture "For The Love of God", a human skull enrolled with diamonds, was sold for 50 million pound. This makes him the most expensive living artist (30 August 2007).
- After his father, a car salesman, had left the family, he was raised by his mother Mary alone, saying she lost control of him when he was young.
- Lives with his wife Maia and their three sons Connor Hirst (born in 1995), Francis (born in 2002) and Cyrus (born in 2007) in a 300 year old remote farmhouse in north Devon.
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