A TRIPLE DOSE OF TROUBLE IN THE ART WORLD

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

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“We all see ourselves as troublemakers because we have been,” said Fairey ahead of the Oct 10 opening of a new London exhibition of the three men’s individual works, as well as unique hybrid pieces combining elements of all their different styles.

The exhibition, titled Triple Trouble and held at Newport Street Gallery, took some 18 months to put together and was “born from us all liking each other's work", said Fairey.

The exhibition ends in March 2026.

He shot to global fame when he designed the iconic Hope poster for the 2008 United States presidential campaign of Mr Barack Obama - elected the US' first African-American president.

Fairey’s street art piece created after the 2015 Paris attacks, featuring the French national symbol Marianne, hangs in the office of French President Emmanuel Macron.