NEWPORT STREET GALLERY PRESENTS ‘TRIPLE TROUBLE’ WITH NEW WORKS BY SHEPARD FAIREY, DAMIEN HIRST, INVADER

Newport Street Gallery, in association with HENI, presents an exhibition uniting three disruptive artists: Shepard Fairey, Damien Hirst, and Invader. Opening 10 October and running until 29 March 2026, this unprecedented show, curated by Connor Hirst, features a dynamic mix of individual works alongside bold new collaborations, many of which are revealed to the public for the very first time.

Spanning painting, sculpture, installation, and mosaic, the exhibition explores the intersections of contemporary art, street culture, and pop iconography. Fairey, Hirst, and Invader have combined forces to create a series of hybrid works that defy categorisation while amplifying their shared fascination with repetition, symbols, and cultural icons.

This ambitious exhibition, which spans all six gallery spaces at Newport Street Gallery, celebrates both the individuality of each artist and the synergy that emerges when their practices collide. Visitors will encounter familiar motifs – Fairey’s OBEY iconography, Hirst’s spots and cabinets, Invader’s space mosaics – reconfigured in provocative and playful ways that challenge the boundaries between fine art and street culture.

Show highlights include: collaborative Spin Paintings and spot artworks merging Hirst’s iconic techniques with Fairey’s politically charged graphics and Invader’s pixelated interventions; Rubik’s Cube mosaics reimagined in large-scale panels featuring subjects from science and music to counterculture figures presented alongside Fairey’s mixed media works; as well as tanks, pill cabinets, and lightboxes that blend Hirst’s clinical precision with the irreverence of Invader and Fairey’s street art. Also on show is a never-before-seen mural transforming Newport Street Gallery into a collision of fine art tradition and urban visual language.

The exhibition has been arranged in association with HENI. The original works in the Triple Trouble show will be available by application on HENI Primary. HENI Editions will also release several new print editions by Shepard Fairey, Damien Hirst and Invader throughout the five-month run of the exhibition. A registration form is available on the HENI website for those who wish to be notified when the works are released for sale.

“Why would I want to collaborate on an exhibition with Space Invader and Damien Hirst? Well, I’ve long respected both artists because they are intelligent, conceptual, and relentless in their singular creative visions. “Obsessive” might be too mild a description to convey their drive, focus, and prodigious output. I can relate to them. I also admire risk-takers and troublemakers who can withstand condescending, impolite jabs from supposedly polite society. How dare Damien Hirst make art of dead animals in formaldehyde, forcing us to confront death, and then turn around and create undeniably appealing, hypnotically repetitive, content-free paintings of colorful spots! Space Invader had the audacity to take the 8-bit pixelated syntax of an ’80s video game and convert it to a street art aesthetic using tile mosaics that are a clever play on these visual analogies, but would seem to have limited long-term potential. Not only has Invader found endless ways to create within the confines of very narrow creative variables, but he has also been arrested many times for his prolific street bombing. Invader has mosaics up in cities worldwide, with over 1,000 in Paris alone. Damien and Invader are visual and conceptual problem solvers who set their own rules. Those qualities inspired me to collaborate with them even though our aesthetics have no natural overlap or compatibility. A clash of styles in collaboration is a risk worth taking, and creativity can solve almost all problems. Malcolm McLaren once told me, “A glorious failure is better than a boring success.” So, with that as a guiding principle, what could possibly go wrong?”
– Shepard Fairey

“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

“In addition to being troublemakers of the art world, Damien and Shepard are two art giants whose work I admire. Combining our three styles could only result in some astonishing artworks. The creative process itself was very exciting with hundreds of messages, ideas and artworks travelling back and forth between the three of us. It was a great adventure and I hope the public will enjoy discovering this exhibition as much as we enjoyed creating it.”
– Invader

Triple Trouble
10 October 2025 – 29 March 2026
Newport Street Gallery, London
Tuesday – Sunday, 10am-6pm
Newport Street Gallery, Newport Street, London SE11 6AJ
Free Entry