Parked outside a trendy south art gallery on a crisp October afternoon, there is a sleek, black Mercedes limousine and it’s a fair bet that it is waiting for one Damien Hirst – one of the world’s richest artists.This is Newport Street Gallery, a Victorian former scene-painting factory which Hirst, 57, has spent a cool £36million converting into a showroom devoted to his own works.And today, the former enfant terrible of British art, famous for such controversial works as a tiger shark pickled in formaldehyde, is somewhere within its walls – preparing for his latest attempt at sparking outrage.
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