Stuart Semple

Stuart Semple's artistic career has spanned over 20 years with over 15 international solo exhibitions, major public art projects, art fairs and biennials. Stuart Semple's works are in the collections of The Getty, David Roberts, Niarchos and Langen Foundations and have been included in significant international charity projects and group exhibitions at the ICA, Victoria Miro, The Goss-Michael Foundation, Sotheby's, Sammlung Fide, The Fine Art Society and the Museum of Art and Design, NYC. Semple speaks on art, mental health and artists' rights for DACS. Stuart Semple is an ambassador for Mind, initiating the Mind Creative Therapies Fund, launched with Stephen Fry and Lord Melvyn Bragg at the exhibition Mindful, supported by Tracey Emin, Mat Collishaw, Sarah Lucas the Chapman Brothers and other leading artists. Stuart Semple's ambitious solo exhibitions include 'Fake Plastic Love' where he blacked out the 8000sq foot Boiler Room in Brick Lane for billboard paintings. Also 'Jump', a 10,000sqft outdoor bouncy cloud sculpture in Melbourne, and 'Suspend Disbelief', an 18 room immersive art installation across Bloomsbury's Victoria House. 2012 saw Stuart Semple become the first artist to make a fully digital body of work affordably downloadable from iTunes. Semple began his career in 1999 posting drawings to eBay and in 2015, Stuart Semple auctioned groundbreaking browser based digital art. In 2010 on the eve of the last general election he exhibited politically charged works at 'The Happy House'. The opening was broadcast live on BBC news. Stuart Semple is known for his public artwork 'HappyCloud' in which he flooded the skyline from outside Tate Modern with thousands of pink happy-faced clouds as a positive statement with the Arts Cuts and recession, repeating the performance in Dublin, Milan, and Moscow. In recognition he was presented with a medal at the House of Lords for the United Nations first International Day of Happiness. http://stuartsemple.com