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
Selected works:
Artist Job Centre
Installation in London during lockdown, 2020
I Should Be Crying But I Just Can’t Let It Show, 2018
spraypaint, foam and steel installed in Denver, 2018
My Sonic Youth installation view, Fabien Castanier Gallery
Los Angeles, 2015
Angel of the Mourning
Digital print, spraypaint, watercolour, vinyl, collage and oil pastel on Saunders Waterford Paper 120 x 150 cm, 2015
EVERYBODY SEES YOU’RE BLOWN APART
Acrylic, charcoal, chalk, vinyl and paintmarker on canvas 220 x 220 x 7cm, 2009
PINK (multiple), 2016
Open edition Plastic jar, powdered paint & sticker 4.5 x 6 x 4.5 cm 2016 onwards
A POUNDING OUTSIDE POUNDLAND (or how my nose got its wonk)
Acrylic & charcoal on canvas 240 x 170 x 7 cm, 2010
My Brain Hurts Like A Fucking Warehouse
acrylic & charcoal on canvas 120 x 120 x 7 cm, 2014
Don’t Let Me Down
acrylic & charcoal on canvas 200 x 200 x 7cm, 2013
S.C.U.M (Valerie), 2015
Digital print & gesso on cold press watercolour paper 150 x 120 cm
Real Gone Kid
acrylic, charcoal, gold and gesso on canvas 120 x 120 x 7 cm, 2014
Technicolour Hiroshima
acrylic & charcoal on canvas 200 x 200 x 7 cm, 2014
Happy Cloud
Vogue x Moncler Piazza della Scala, Milan, 2009
My Sonic Youth
installation view, Fabien Castanier Gallery, 2016
The first CUT was the deepest
acrylic on canvas 270 x 150 x 7 cm, 2013
Ding Dong (Maggie’s Dead)
laquer, fibre glass, shoes, neon on mdf 150 x 100 x 70 cm, 2009
Riders On The Storm
acrylic, charcoal, indian ink, china marker on Canvas 200 x 200 x 7cm, 2013
Freak
acrylic on foam, dimensions variable, 2012
My Sonic Youth, project space
Fabien Castanier Gallery Los Angles 2016
MY LONELINESS IS KILLING ME, 2015
Digital print, acrylic, marker, spraypaint, vinyl, graphite & india ink on cold press watercolour paper 150 x 120 cm
Dancing On My Own
vinyl, plastic, rubber, perspex, ink, spraypaint on metal 2019
YOU ARE NOT ENOUGH
Digital print, acrylic, vinyl, china marker, foil & stickers on Hahnemuhle German Etching paper 76 x 56 cm 2014
Let Forever Be
acrylic, canvas on metal dimensions variable, 2018
Knocked Up, 2008
Selected works:
Artist Job Centre
Installation in London during lockdown, 2020
I Should Be Crying But I Just Can’t Let It Show, 2018
spraypaint, foam and steel installed in Denver, 2018
My Sonic Youth installation view, Fabien Castanier Gallery
Los Angeles, 2015
Angel of the Mourning
Digital print, spraypaint, watercolour, vinyl, collage and oil pastel on Saunders Waterford Paper 120 x 150 cm, 2015
EVERYBODY SEES YOU’RE BLOWN APART
Acrylic, charcoal, chalk, vinyl and paintmarker on canvas 220 x 220 x 7cm, 2009
PINK (multiple), 2016
Open edition Plastic jar, powdered paint & sticker 4.5 x 6 x 4.5 cm 2016 onwards
A POUNDING OUTSIDE POUNDLAND (or how my nose got its wonk)
Acrylic & charcoal on canvas 240 x 170 x 7 cm, 2010
My Brain Hurts Like A Fucking Warehouse
acrylic & charcoal on canvas 120 x 120 x 7 cm, 2014
Don’t Let Me Down
acrylic & charcoal on canvas 200 x 200 x 7cm, 2013
S.C.U.M (Valerie), 2015
Digital print & gesso on cold press watercolour paper 150 x 120 cm
Real Gone Kid
acrylic, charcoal, gold and gesso on canvas 120 x 120 x 7 cm, 2014
Technicolour Hiroshima
acrylic & charcoal on canvas 200 x 200 x 7 cm, 2014
Happy Cloud
Vogue x Moncler Piazza della Scala, Milan, 2009
My Sonic Youth
installation view, Fabien Castanier Gallery, 2016
The first CUT was the deepest
acrylic on canvas 270 x 150 x 7 cm, 2013
Ding Dong (Maggie’s Dead)
laquer, fibre glass, shoes, neon on mdf 150 x 100 x 70 cm, 2009
Riders On The Storm
acrylic, charcoal, indian ink, china marker on Canvas 200 x 200 x 7cm, 2013
Freak
acrylic on foam, dimensions variable, 2012
My Sonic Youth, project space
Fabien Castanier Gallery Los Angles 2016
MY LONELINESS IS KILLING ME, 2015
Digital print, acrylic, marker, spraypaint, vinyl, graphite & india ink on cold press watercolour paper 150 x 120 cm
Dancing On My Own
vinyl, plastic, rubber, perspex, ink, spraypaint on metal 2019
YOU ARE NOT ENOUGH
Digital print, acrylic, vinyl, china marker, foil & stickers on Hahnemuhle German Etching paper 76 x 56 cm 2014
Let Forever Be
acrylic, canvas on metal dimensions variable, 2018
Knocked Up, 2008
More:
Recent exhibitions, commissions, publications and press
Works on paper & Disco Unicorn Party in Denver
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Last Night – Lecture with Culture Haus at Denver Art Museum
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Lecture at Denver Art Museum & disco unicorn party at Lane Meyer Projects
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Yesterday we did Something Amazing – here’s the video & photos
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Thursday 1st September – Something amazing
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Mind Creative Therapies Fund Update – creativity and Mental Health
I'm unbelievably excited to jump on here and let you know the fantastic news. Which is... that the Mind Creative Therapies fund, that I was involved with founding a couple of years back, has just issued it's second round of funding! A total of over £40,000 is set to...
New series of browser based internet art : Born Digital by Stuart Semple
Stuart Semple has created a series of 5 brand new browser-based internet artworks. The five websites are being auctioned online here if you wish to bid for one. ANDYFOR15MINUTES.CO.UK, website, Stuart Semple, 2015 AndyFor15Minutes.co.uk BID LikeShareTweetRepeat.co.uk,...
Exclusive Print Edition BEYOND YOUR COMMAND Now Available
BEYOND YOUR COMMAND Screenprint hand finished with spray paint, acrylic & paint marker on Saunders Waterford hot pressed paper 76 x 56 cm 2014 Editon: 30 + 6AP £375 CLICK HERE TO BUY & FREE SHIPPING FOR EARLY BIRDS CLICK HERE TO BUY & FREE...
Anxiety Generation : Now Open at Delahunty
[slideshow] [/slideshow] Solo Exhibition Delahunty First Floor 21 Bruton Street 13th November - 4th December 2014 Open Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm or by appointment Click here to view the works from the exhibition on the Delahunty website. Download the full...
Pallant House Exhibition Now Open
The Macmillan De'Longhi Arts Programme from 16th September 2014 – 29th September 2014 Garden Gallery 9 N Pallant Chichester West Sussex PO19 1TJ Group Exhibition & Auction Preview With works from Gordon Cheung, Robert Fry, Jimmy Galvin, Dan...
Painting Between the Pixels – Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology Essay
[slideshow] [/slideshow] Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology Essay 2014 Purchase Here Painting Between the Pixels - Stuart Semple I'm a painter which means, quite simply, that I wake up in the morning walk to my studio and push paint around a surface until it is time to...
BAD BOY NOW OPEN
BAD BOY Curated by Fred Mann 24th July - 20th September New Art Projects 17 Riding House Street London W1W 7DS New Art Projects are presenting a selection of works from a private London collection. Assembled between 1995 – 2012, an international collector and...
Dem Bones : New Limited Edition Chair Collection
We are pleased to share Stuart Semple's latest design project, a series of super limited edition digitally printed acrylic chairs. Inspired by the African-American folk song Dem Bones, these distinctive design pieces fuse Stuart Semple’s ardent use of colour with his...
Stuart Semple Presents HappyClouds for Eighth Moscow Night at the Museum
HAPPYCLOUD Stuart Semple Night at the Museum Lavrushinsky Lane + Stoleshnikov Lane 17th May 2014 15:00-17:00, 20:00-22:00 Moscow Department of...