Gone But Not Forgotten

The gilded skeleton of a three-metre tall woolly mammoth, is presented in a colossal steel and glass vitrine. The mammoth is the largest earth-dwelling mammal of all time. This three-metre tall skeleton belongs to a Mammuthus Primigenius, one of the last mammoth species to have existed. Aside from isolated populations on the Siberian island of Wrangel, the woolly mammoth became extinct over 10,000 years ago. The sculpture forms part of Hirst’s ‘Natural History’ series, which he began in the early 1990s, with work including the shark in formaldehyde, 'The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living' (1991), and the bisected cow and calf, 'Mother and Child (Divided)' (1993...View all