A controversial artist of the 90's & beyond

Newport Street Gallery - 2015

30 years on from Goldsmiths...artist, curator, prolific collector, and Goldsmiths alumnus Damien Hirst opens his own gallery, Newport Street Gallery, in South London. This is the realisation of his long-term ambition to share his collection of some 3,000 works of art with the public, and is just a short walk from the Tate Britain, and admission is free.

The gallery is expected to showcase work by many of his contemporaries at Goldsmiths, including Sarah Lucas (BA Fine Art 1987) and Mat Collishaw (BA Fine Art 1989), alongside works by artists as varied as Tracey Emin, Picasso, and Francis Bacon, Hirst’s natural history collection, taxidermy and historical artefacts.

"...as soon as I arrived at Goldsmiths I knew it was where I needed to be. It was absolutely the right place; there was nowhere else I could have gone where I could have done what I wanted to do.”