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As a university student, Jopling visited Manhattan, where he forged links with post-war American artists, encouraging them to donate works for the charity auction "New Art: New World." In the late 1980s, he formed a friendship with the artist Damien Hirst. Hirst had already sold a number of works to the influential collector Charles Saatchi but Jopling enabled the artist to realise more ambitious projects including the sculpture 'The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living' and more recently the diamond skull 'For the Love of God'.
Initially Jopling only supported a small list of artists including Hirst, Tracey Emin, Antony Gormley and Marc Quinn, organising exhibitions in warehouses. In 1993, he opened White Cube gallery in Duke Street, St. James's, London. In 2000, the gallery opened a second larger space in Hoxton and in 2006, he opened a third gallery in Mason's Yard, off Piccadilly. Along the way, Jopling has acquired representation of a number of young British artists including his ex-wife Sam Taylor-Wood, the Chapman Brothers, Gilbert & George and Gary Hume as well as international artists including Chuck Close, Andreas Gursky, Anselm Kiefer, Christian Marclay, Sarah Morris, Gabriel Orozco, Doris Salcedo and Jeff Wall.
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