Polychromatic Bronze figure called Hymn by Damien Hirst. The title is a simple pun on him apparently. Charles Saatchi bought it for his collection for £1M a while ago. The artist paid undisclosed damages in the form of a payment to two children's charities, to the toy manufacturer Humbrol, after admitting to copying the statue from his son's toy anatomy set. The designer of the toy said that it is an exact copy, even down to the eyebrows, the half and half body and the sinews.
I have posted two photos for scale purposes, one without and one with human. (As Dave says in his comment below, the one with the girl is the more interesting anyway regardless of scale or anything else). The statue stands outside the Norwich Art School building. I stood and studied it closely to see if I could visualise how my insides might have felt when I was ill the other week. I could see that the intestines would pose a tricky circuitous route when all was not entirely right.
New works by Damien Hirst are also on display at Houghton Hall in the form of paintings. Last time I saw Hirst's paintings was at White Cube some years ago and acknowledgement was given that they were all done by his assistants under his direction. They were not particularly big, out of the ordinary or tricky in terms of skills. I was most disappointed and let down that he had not done them himself. They were really not much more than abstract splashes of paint and extremely dull and uninteresting. I am slightly hesitant about driving 50 miles across county to see the new works.
I also went to see Montparnasse Bienvenue, also known by the French name Jeune Femme, a French film with subtitles. Winner of Camera D'Or at Cannes Film Festival 2017. After the film I didn't want to go home so I took the photos above, sat and ate sandwiches on a bench in the sun, and then went to the Cathedral and sat in there for an hour or more, and I felt like the girl in the film who wandered the streets of Paris. I am now home. The film was good but not the best thing for me to see á ce moment.
In the Cathedral where I sat for over an hour. 
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