The Newport Street Gallery is an art gallery in

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which displays works selected from the personal art collection of Damien Hirst. It is located on Newport Street in

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and is the realisation of Hirst's long-term ambition to share his art collection with the public. Hirst announced plans for the gallery in March 2012, and it opened in October 2015. It includes a cafe, gallery shop and offices for Hirst's company. The building is a former theatre carpentry and scenery production workshop, dating from 1913. It was designed by John Woodward, the

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's district surveyor for the area. It is

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. For its conversion to the gallery, the building was redesigned by Caruso St John. The design was praised for its "virtuosity", and in October 2016 it won the RIBA Stirling Prize. 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 art by

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, Banksy, Tracey Emin, Richard Hamilton, Jeff Koons, Sarah Lucas,

Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...

, Richard Prince, Haim Steinbach and

Gavin Turk Gavin Turk (born 1967) is a British artist from Guildford in Surrey, and is considered to be one of the Young British Artists.Tate Modern. (2009)'Pop Life: Art in a Material World' Retrieved 14 August 2012. Turk's oeuvre deals with issues of aut ...

, as well as a number of young and emerging artists such as Helen Beard, Sadie Laska and

Boo Saville Boo Saville (born 15 January 1980) is a contemporary artist. She lives and works in London. Career Saville was born in Norwich. She graduated from Slade School of Fine Art in 2004, then worked at a makeshift studio in Pimlico in the front room ...

and a significant collection of work by indigenous artists from the

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coast. Also featured are natural history specimens, taxidermy, anatomical models and historical artefacts. The collection was previously the subject of large-scale exhibitions at the

Serpentine Gallery The Serpentine Galleries are two contemporary art galleries in Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, Central London. Recently rebranded to just Serpentine, the organisation is split across Serpentine South, previously known as the Serpentine Gallery, ...

, London (2006) and the Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin (2013).

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* Art galleries in London Damien Hirst Art galleries established in 2015 2015 establishments in England Vauxhall Grade II listed buildings in the London Borough of Lambeth {{UK-art-display-stub