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
An Audience with Stuart Semple at The Pod – Coventry
Catch Stuart in conversation with artist Martin Green at The Pod in Coventry on 2nd July. Stuart will be talking about his life and work alongside his plans for new artworks that he will be exhibiting across three sites in Coventry this October. The event is...
Rolls-Royce – ‘Little Ghost’ artist car project
Stuart Semple 'Little Ghost' art car for Rolls-Royce 'Ghost Stories' project. 12 leading artists including: Gavin Turk, Charming Baker, Stuart Semple, Richard Wentworth, Mark Wallinger , Sam...
Happy Clouds come to Geelong Ater Dark
Manchester discussion, the fearful gift – the relationship between mental health & creativity
Join Matt Haig and special guests Stuart Semple, MJ Hyland, Anneleise Mackintosh for an evening of discussion and debate around creativity, mental health and his new book, Reasons to Stay Alive. With music from Karima Francis. Reasons to Stay Alive follows Matt Haig's...
Stuart Semple X Placebo artwork for C.A.L.M
SHOULDERS TOES AND KNEES One-off digital print on Hahnemuhle German Etching paper 50 x 50 cm Stuart Semple, 2015 (Signed by the artist and the band) The above artwork is a very special totally one-off print I made from the Placebo imagery to raise money for...
UN International Day of Happiness – Happy Clouds
It's the UN International Day of Happiness Today To me that's something that's really important. I think the level of happiness that a culture has is really the true measure of it's success. That's not about averages, the average human being having a smile on his or...
Now open: Ghosts feat. Stuart Semple at Fine Art Society London
Stuart has created a series of new artworks for the group exhibition 'Ghosts' at Fine Art Society Contemporary in London. Ghosts How We Live in the Future Juliette Losq | Macarena Yañez | Laura Oldfield Ford Thomas J Price | Simon Terrill | Stuart Semple The Fine Art...
The story of the Denmark Street 12 Bar door by Stuart Semple
When the music dies some of us will be left without a chair. London is getting obliterated, culturally desecrated. Fragile relics with echos of glittered drag queens and burned out guitar amps are rotting under a layer of chrome and glass. This door is an important...
Visions from the Vault – Stuart Semple Cult of Denim for Selfridges
Every now and then I stumble across an image or something in the studio that starts me off down memory lane. Yesterday, something fell out of my book shelf. Quite unexpected I stumbled across this little Gem: A screen printed back pocket from classic Levis 501's that...