Robert Dixon (born 1947) is a British mathematician and
graphic artist, known primarily for his book ''Mathographics'' and for his plagiarism dispute with
Damien Hirst
Damien Steven Hirst (; né
Brennan; born 7 June 1965) is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingd ...
.
Dixon was a research associate at the
Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It o ...
.
He complained in 2004 that a circular pattern Hirst produced for a children's colouring book was a copy of one of his works.
In 2006, Dixon said that Hirst's print ''Valium'' had "unmistakable similarities" to one of his own designs. Hirst's manager contested this by explaining the origin of Hirst's piece was from a book ''The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry'' (1991)—not realising this was one place where Dixon's design had been published.
[Alberge, Dalya. (27 June 2007)]
"My old friend Damien stole my skull idea"
''The Times
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''. Retrieved 10 December 2007.
References
1947 births
Living people
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