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Jack White Opens First Major Art Exhibition at Damien Hirst’s London Gallery

Hirst invited White to exhibit work that repositions him as a hands-on maker.

Overview

  • The exhibition, which opened Friday, runs at Newport Street Gallery in London with free admission through September 13.
  • More than 100 works are on view, mixing archival objects and newly made pieces with the hyperreal Red Tree (2026) installed as the show’s centerpiece.
  • The project draws on White’s roots as a 1990s upholsterer and furniture maker and followed a 2021 meeting with Damien Hirst that led to the gallery invitation.
  • White presents a bricolage approach he calls ‘Hardware Store Art,’ using found objects, spray painting, welding and scented, interactive furniture such as the Warrior Chair and a reworked Eames seat.
  • White says the show is meant to shift how fans see him by revealing decades of private making and the exhibition could broaden how popular musicians are understood as cross-disciplinary artists.