'Triple Trouble': Fairey, Hirst and Invader join forces for London show

They come from a world of underground, even subversive, art, but now US activist Shepard Fairey has joined forces with Britain's Damien Hirst and French street artist Invader with a "joyful" exhibition to show even in dark times there is always hope.

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A visitor looks at the artwork 'Fight the Power, 'What is Above, Peace, Fingers Crossed' by Shepard Fairey, Damien Hirst, and Invader. A visitor stands in front of the artwork 'Positive Space/Negative Space (Medium Red/Blue)' A visitor photographs the artwork 'Schizophrenogenesis' by Damien Hirst during an exhibition.

(Agence France-Presse)

"We all see ourselves as troublemakers because we have been," Fairey said ahead of opening of a new London exhibition of the three men’s individual works, but also unique hybrid pieces combining elements of all their different styles.

The exhibition called “Triple Trouble” took some 18 months to put together and was “born from us all liking each other's work,” said Fairey. He shot to global fame when he designed the iconic “Hope” poster for the 2008 US presidential campaign of Barack Obama — elected America’s first African-American president. His street art piece created after the 2015 Paris attacks, featuring the French national symbol Marianne, hangs in the office of French President Emmanuel Macron.