Newport Street Gallery hosts unprecedented collaboration between Shepard Fairey, Damien Hirst, and Invader
London’s Newport Street Gallery is set to open Triple Trouble, a groundbreaking exhibition uniting three of contemporary art’s most distinctive voices: Shepard Fairey, Damien Hirst, and Invader. Running from 10 October 2025 to 29 March 2026, the show presents an ambitious fusion of street art, fine art, and pop culture across all six gallery spaces.
Curated by Connor Hirst and produced in association with HENI, Triple Trouble features a compelling mix of individual works alongside bold new collaborations that challenge the boundaries between high art and urban culture. Visitors will see Fairey’s politically charged iconography collide with Hirst’s clinical spot paintings and sculptural pill cabinets, while Invader’s pixelated mosaics add a playful yet disruptive presence.
The exhibition highlights include spin paintings blending Hirst’s signature dots with Fairey’s graphic intensity and Invader’s unmistakable digital style. Large-scale mosaics inspired by Rubik’s Cubes reimagine cultural icons from science to counterculture, while new murals transform the gallery into a vibrant arena where street and studio art intersect.
Shepard Fairey describes the collaboration as a “risk worth taking,” praising the “obsessive drive” and “relentless vision” shared by all three artists despite their very different aesthetics. Damien Hirst, who is no stranger to controversy, says working alongside Fairey and Invader has pushed his practice into new, unexpected territory. Invader, known for his mysterious identity and global mosaic “invasions,” called the creative exchange “an adventure” full of surprises.
Since its opening in 2015, Newport Street Gallery has become a significant cultural destination, showcasing Hirst’s collection and a programme of ambitious exhibitions in a striking set of converted Victorian buildings. With Triple Trouble, the gallery offers a rare opportunity to see how three distinct art practices can collide, converse, and create something entirely new.
What I’ve really enjoyed is the powerful sensibility of both these guys, and it pushes me to think more, down to millimetres and distances between things and colours, and there’s lots and lots and lots of surprises. So I think there’s excitement in the differences and in the similarities. Artists can be notoriously difficult to work with whereas these two are very rare in the art world because they’re great people as well as great artists. I think anything done well is great art. It’s art if you do something well, to such an extreme. We all love punk. I just wanted to change people’s minds, I didn’t even care what into, I wanted to lay eggs in people’s brains. I always thought you have to upset people, but you don’t want the art to turn them away. You want to turn them on, want to get a hold of them with that kind of power. But you have to get a hold of them and push them away at the same time to engage them with a violence that they’re almost unprepared to accept. And Shepard and Space both do that.”
– Damien Hirst
The exhibition is free and open Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 6pm.
Elena Leo is the Arts & Lifestyle Editor of Ikon London Magazine.
