What is Damien Hirst's Medium?

Damian Hirst is among the few contemporary artists who is known to the 'general public'. He has acheived notoriety along with his contemporary Tracey Emin, even if people cannot name him they would recognise his work. For me the real sign is when work has gained a tabloid newspaper name like Carl Andre's 'Tate Bricks', Emin has 'The Unmade Bed' and 'The Tent' while Hirst has the 'Dead Sheep' the 'Shark' or the 'Pickled Shark' and now the Skull.

If taken literally Hirst seems to have no specific or consistent medium or genre, his series of dead animals from, the Skull, and the Pharmacy, part of the Tate Modern's early hangs would suggest sculpture/installation but his spots and spin paintings would seem to make that sugggest he is also a painter. I would suggest he has to mediums that he is consistent to, which are Sensationalism and Plagiarism.

I should probably illustrate the plagiarism first, as it could be taken to be libellous except for the fact he has had to pay out once to an original artist over a piece which he based on their work. Hymn a 6m tall bronze interpretation of an anatomical model by the toy compay Humbrol and he has been accused of tracing an penguin book illustration for the piece Valium. In a way what Hirst has done is alway to bring these images to a new audience, he particularly takes children toys and brings them out of there original context into a new context. Does he change them enough to make the work his own well that is for the courts to decide, for me it is a new take on the traditional concept of Art holding a mirror to life.