ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Stuart Semple is a multidisciplinary British artist whose practice spans painting, performance, internet art, and installation. His works adopt a sociological lens to explore themes of youth politics, mass culture, image, technology, and anxiety. Often activist in nature, his broader projects frequently strive for fairness, equality, and access, particularly within the arts.
Semple has enjoyed numerous solo exhibitions worldwide and has presented projects at international institutions, including the Denver Art Museum, The Whitworth, Barbican, Hong Kong Arts Center, and Dulwich Picture Gallery. He is the author of “Make Art or Die Trying,” published by Quarto. Semple regularly speaks on art and mental health, with appearances at Oxford University, The Southbank Centre, Frieze, RCA, and the ICA
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Recent exhibitions, commissions, publications and press
Dem Bones : New Limited Edition Chair Collection
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Stuart Semple Presents HappyClouds for Eighth Moscow Night at the Museum
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La Donna è Mobile? A Creative Symposium To Confront A Stereotype during Salone Del Mobile, Milan
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Top Sante – now on the shevles
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Now Open – BETTER THAN YOUR NEIGHBOUR | Schloss Wiesen
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Stuart Semple + Amnesty + Boxpark
On 1st December Stuart will host a live-art-letter-writing event in the Amnesty Shop @ BOXPARK. This is Amnesty’s first retail concept store and also features a large scale print collaboration with Stuart. In the lead up to Human Rights Day (10th December) Amnesty...
Freedom From Torture Auction
Freedom from Torture’s 2011 Art Auction sees leading visual artists unite to raise funds to support the organisation’s work with survivors of torture, the vast majority of whom have fled countries...
Polemically Small presented by The Future Can Wait now open
THE FUTURE CAN WAIT presents: Polemically Small Curated by Zavier Ellis, Edward Lucie-Smith, Max Presneill & Simon Rumley DOVE Watercolour, monoprint & acrylic on Saunders Waterford cold pressed paper Paper size: 29.7 x 42 cm (A3) Image size: 0.8 x 0.8...
Piers Secunda now open at Aubin Gallery
Taliban Relief Paintings and Crude Oil Silk Screens New works by Piers Secunda 17th November - 24th December 2011 Piers Secunda’s distinct studio practice has pushed the development of paint as a fully operational sculptural material for fifteen years....
We Ain’t Fading ~ Stuart Semple x Aubin & Wills
We Ain't Fading Stuart Semple x Aubin & Wills 2011
Remembering Gerald Laing (1936 – 23 November 2011)
image: DOMESTIC PERSPECTIVE 2008 Oil on canvas 68.5 x 33 irregular inches I don't normally blog personal things but Gerald Laing passed away today, I'm distraught, it's so weird sometimes you feel like you've got forever... and you forget, you see I...
Stuart Semple x Moncler Tokyo 2011
BASECAMP Acrylic & charcoal on canvas 4945 x 1037 mm / (16 feet x 3.4 feet) 2011 collection: Moncler, Tokyo
BBC TV programme featuring Stuart now up on iPlayer
Matt, Beth, Tim and Ashby are four GCSE Art students from Essex. Brit artist Stuart Semple visits their school to see how they turn their ideas into great pieces of art.
Making ‘On The Twelve Thrones’ physical
How it all began... About a year or so ago I got a message from Jamie, I'd not heard from him for a bit, we'd met a while ago outside Rough Trade in Brick Lane, he helped me strap a load of bin bags to the roof of the...