Conceptual artist Damien Hirst is not one to shy away from a statement – and a series of bronze sculptures of a gestating fetus gracing the entrance to a new hospital in Qatar is proof.

The 10,000 A5 size works, all variants on Hirst’s Op Art-flavoured spot paintings, are displayed in plastic screens that fill Newport Street’s lofty galleries from floor to ceiling.

Damien Hirst’s Cherry Blossoms is a disastrous failure in all of these roles, except one, and it isn’t a wild success in that. A large volume, bandaged in green cloth, with 400 pages of high-quality ...