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.

“We all see ourselves as troublemakers because we have been,” Fairey told AFP, ahead of Friday’s 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-Ame

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