1988 Damien Hirst, 23, organises Freeze , an exhibition by 16 students at Goldsmiths College including Angus Fairhurst, Gary Hume and Sarah Lucas in a Docklands warehouse. Among the visitors is collector Charles Saatchi.

1991 Saatchi buys Marc Quinn's "Self", a frozen sculpture of the artist's head made from his own blood, for £13,000, and commissions Hirst's "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living", a 14ft tiger shark preserved in formaldehyde, for £50,000.