Plaque

Damien Hirst

Erection date: 2017

Inscription

Damien Hirst, artist, worked here 1999-2010, opened Newport Street Gallery 2015.
Gavin Turk, 2017

Site: Damien Hirst (1 memorial)

SE11, Old Paradise Street, Newport Street Gallery

The plaque is on the end wall of the Gallery in Newport Street.

We think this plaque was erected as part of the “Gavin Turk: Who What When Where How & Why” 2016-17 exhibition at the Newport Street Gallery. A Fine Art Multiple review of the show opens with: "It is a measure of Damien Hirst that the third major show at his recently opened Newport Street Gallery is dedicated to his good friend and fellow artist Gavin Turk. ... the works have all been entirely drawn from Hirst’s personal collection. ... They {Hirst and Turk} first really came into contact with each other in 1991 at Turk’s now notorious Royal College degree show. Turk, still an undergraduate, had enraged the tutors at the Royal College by whitewashing his studio space and simply hanging a blue heritage plaque (identical to the kind found on historical London buildings) with the words “Gavin Turk worked here 1989-1991”."

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Damien Hirst

Artist. Born Damien Steven Brennan in Bristol and grew up in Leeds. One of t...

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Gavin Turk

Artist. Born Guildford. One of the Young British Artists.

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