Freeze (art exhibition)

He was assisted by Luigi Scalera, a young architecture graduate working for the London Docklands Development Corporation, who identified and made available the derelict building for the exhibition together with modest funding for painting the interior.

[1][2] Hirst and his collaborators intentionally imitated the look of Charles Saatchi's first gallery in St John's Wood that had opened a few years earlier.

[citation needed] It was designed by Tony Arefin and included an essay by art critic Ian Jeffrey.

In 2007, Michael Craig-Martin said in an interview with Brian Sherwin: The exhibition was sponsored by the London Docklands Development Corporation and Olympia and York.

There was one contemporary review of the original exhibition written by Sacha Craddock, which appeared in The Guardian.