At home with the Hirsts... art’s selfie obsessed exhibitionists

So where’s the pickled shark, Damien? An intriguing guided tour of the artist’s homes given by his VERY revealing muse

HIS outlandish installations, including pickled sharks and cows, and a flair for publicity as an artist have brought him vast fame and fortune, yet Damien Hirst has always managed to keep his private life away from the public gaze. Until now.

Because his selfie-loving young girlfriend has released a series of photographs of the artist’s occasionally bizarre lifestyle.

Pictures posted on Instagram and Twitter by glamorous Katie Keight, 26, offer a rare insight into Britain’s richest living artist – a man who has a £150million property portfolio and an overall fortune estimated at £215million.

Thanks to Miss Keight, we can now see the romantic couple surrounded by Hirst’s characteristically death-obsessed art – including skull-studded furniture – or simply relaxing together.

One shows them wearing coloured contact lenses as they prepare to go out for a Chinese meal, while another shows them sunbathing with the caption ‘Sol mates’.

They are also seen swimming in clear blue waters on luxury holidays in Morocco and Thailand, and posing for selfies with artists Jeff Koons and Jonathan Yeo.

Hirst, 51, who famously created a platinum skull encrusted with 8,601 diamonds which sold for £50 million, is mainly pictured dressed in black or pulling faces. There are also hundreds of posts of Keight alone – posing naked by a swimming pool or relaxing in an extravagant bubble bath.

Before his relationship with Keight, Hirst dated swimwear model Roxie Nafousi, who is now said to have a collection of his paintings worth millions. He also has three sons – Connor, 21, Cassius, 16, and ten-year-old Cyrus – from a 20year relationship with Californian designer Maia Norman.

The images provide a glimpse of some of the sumptuous homes that form Hirst’s property empire. These include a £5million villa on the Thai island of Phuket, and the £3million, 300-room Toddington Manor in Gloucestershire.

Earlier this year, Hirst won a planning battle to install a swimming pool and yoga room – Keight often posts pictures of herself in yoga pose – in a mega-basement of his £40million John Nash home overlooking Regent’s Park.

The artist was introduced to Keight by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein at a Foundation for AIDS Research party. The millionaire lifestyle that she is afforded thanks to Hirst’s success does not stop her from mocking him. She often teases Hirst about being old but dressing young. In one picture she writes ‘For the love of god’ – also the name of his £50 million skull – in response to him wearing a beanie hat.

Is the yoga room a sign that the relationship is becoming more serious? Earlier this year, Hirst told The Mail on Sunday: ‘Katie’s the only reason I go to bed at night.’

MY PATRON SAINT Hirst’s morbid St Bartholomew sculpture (plus gold goggles) looms in the background as 26-year-old Katie shows her own figure in an Instagram post, stripping off by the indoor pool at one of the artist’s London homes.

PS WHY DO ALL THE HARD WORK YOURSELF...

MAKE MINE A LARGE BUBBLY When your partner is worth more than £200million, you don’t have to scrimp on bubble bath as Katie demonstrates – happily wallowing in an overflowing tub.

I’MOUTOFMYSKULL ... of Hirst’s art. The subject Death influences much decor, including this bizarre even inspires his home reading material, as she headboard, and Katie’s shots. in one of her Instagram stretches out on a bed platinum skull, For Left:...

...AND DOWN WITH THE DOG Katie often posts pictures like this one of her yoga poses, and even has her own yoga room. No doubt she’s warming up for her Downward-Facing Dog...

...IF YOU WANT TO FLASH THE CASH? Hirst famously uses assistants to make his work – including artist pal Jonathan Yeo, above, as Katie’s Instagram picture reveals. And where can a girl stash all that loot? In a £50 note handbag, of course!

GRAND: Hirst’s £40million home near Regent’s Park