Newport Street Gallery

The Newport Street Gallery is an art gallery in London, England which displays works selected from the personal art collection of Damien Hirst. It is located on Newport Street Vauxhall. Newport Street Gallery is the realisation of Hirst's long-term ambition to share his art collection with the public.

Newport Street Gallery

Hirst announced plans for the gallery in March 2012,[1] and it opened in October 2015.[2] It includes a cafe, gallery shop and offices for Hirst's company.[3]

The building is a former theatre carpentry and scenery production workshop, redesigned by Caruso St John. The design was praised for its "virtuosity", and in October 2016 it won the RIBA Stirling Prize.[4]

The gallery spans 37,000 square feet and includes six exhibition spaces – one with a ceiling height of 11 metres – split over two levels.

The collection

The Murderme collection, which Hirst has been acquiring since the late 1980s, contains over 3,000 works and features works by Francis Bacon, Banksy, Tracey Emin, Richard Hamilton, Jeff Koons, Sarah Lucas, Pablo Picasso, Richard Prince, Haim Steinbach and Gavin Turk, as well as a number of young and emerging artists such as Helen Beard, Sadie Laska or Boo Saville[5][6] and a significant collection of work by indigenous artists from the Pacific Northwest Coast. Also featured are natural history specimens, taxidermy, anatomical models and historical artefacts. The collection has previously been the subject of large-scale exhibitions at the Serpentine Gallery, London (2006) and the Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin (2013).

References
  1. "Damien Hirst's London art space due to open next spring - The Art Newspaper". Web.archive.org. 2014-11-26. Archived from the original on 2014-11-26. Retrieved 2016-11-03.
  2. Jonathan Prynn (2015-06-30). "Damien Hirst's new gallery opens with abstract great John Hoyland". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 2016-11-03.
  3. Oliver Wainwright. "Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery is a grown-up gem that shows he's sobered with age | Art and design". The Guardian. Retrieved 2016-11-03.
  4. Isabelle Fraser (2016-10-06). "Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery wins 2016 RIBA Stirling Prize". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-11-03.
  5. "Exhibitions". Helen Beard. Retrieved 2019-11-04.
  6. "Here Are the 3 Emerging Artists Damien Hirst Tapped to Make Work for His Private Museum". artnet News. 2018-06-06. Retrieved 2019-11-04.

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