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Stuart Semple

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Stuart Semple
Stuart Semple in 2025
Born
Stuart Buchanan Semple

(1980-09-12) 12 September 1980 (age 46)
Bournemouth, Dorset, England
EducationBournemouth and Poole College; Bretton Hall College, University of Leeds
Known forPainting, sculpture, installation, performance, public art
MovementContemporary art
Websitestuartsemple.com

Anish Kapoor[a] (born Stuart Buchanan Semple, 12 September 1980) is a British artist who works across painting, installation, performance and public art. His public works include Happy Cloud, first staged outside Tate Modern in 2009, in which more than two thousand smiley-faced clouds of tinted soap foam were released over the Bankside riverside walkway.[2][3] In 2018, he devised Happy City, a citywide programme of public installations in Denver, Colorado.[4][5] During the COVID-19 pandemic he co-founded the Virtual Online Museum of Art (VOMA).[6] In 2021 he opened GIANT, an artist-led gallery in Bournemouth.[7][8]

Since 2018 Semple has also campaigned against "hostile design", meaning architectural features intended to deter rough sleeping and other public behaviour, through the website hostiledesign.org.[9][10]

Early life

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Semple was born in Bournemouth, Dorset, and studied art and design at Bournemouth and Poole College before reading painting and printmaking at Bretton Hall College, then part of the University of Leeds.[11] He has said that being taken to see Van Gogh's Sunflowers as a young child was formative to his decision to become an artist.[12] In his late teens he experienced a severe, near-fatal allergic reaction; he has described the episode, and his long-standing multiple allergies, as an influence on his decision to pursue art professionally and later referenced it directly in his work.[13][14]

Career

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Early career (2002 – 2009)

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Semple's first major London solo exhibition, Stolen Language – the Art of Nancyboy, was held at the A&D Gallery in 2002.[15] Following the 2004 Momart warehouse fire, which destroyed a large number of contemporary British artworks in storage, Semple was commissioned to create a memorial piece from the salvaged debris, titled Burn Baby Burn.[16][17] In 2005, in protest at remarks made by the collector Charles Saatchi, Semple hung one of his own paintings inside the Saatchi Gallery without permission.[18][19]

His 2006 exhibition Epiphany, at Martin Summers Fine Art in London, addressed the role of religion in contemporary life through paintings drawing on advertising and graphic media.[20][21] By 2007 his solo exhibitions were attracting significant early collector interest; a 2007 London show reportedly sold $1 million of work within its first five minutes.[13]


Public works and performances

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Stuart Semple, HappyClouds

Semple's first large-scale public work, Happy Cloud, was staged outside Tate Modern in London on 25 February 2009, in which more than two thousand pink, smiley-faced clouds made from helium, soap and vegetable dye were released over the Bankside riverside walkway at intervals through the morning, an action Semple described as intended to lift public mood during the 2008–09 financial downturn.[2][22] The work was later restaged in Dublin, Manchester, Hong Kong and Moscow.[3]

In 2013 Semple staged JUMP at Federation Square in Melbourne, a pop-up installation of jumping castles, trampolines and inflatable play equipment for adult participants.[23]

In 2018 the Denver Theatre District commissioned Semple to lead Happy City, a six-week programme of public art across downtown Denver running from 18 May to 30 June, funded at more than $500,000 in partnership with Mental Health Colorado and the curatorial organisation Black Cube; nine Colorado-based artists and the Los Angeles artist Vince McKelvie contributed alongside Semple.[4][5] The programme included Emotional Baggage Drop, an installation at Denver's Union Station styled as a luggage-drop counter, at which visitors could describe personal difficulties to a volunteer in exchange for a luggage tag.[5]

In July 2022 Dulwich Picture Gallery staged a Festival of Happiness in the gallery's gardens, which included the premiere of Something Else, a series of sculptural installations by Semple navigated by visitors using a map he designed.[24]

VOMA

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, Semple co-founded the Virtual Online Museum of Art (VOMA), an entirely computer-generated online art museum, with the architect Emily Mann and curator Lee Cavaliere. VOMA launched on 4 September 2020 and presented a permanent collection of more than twenty works, viewable as three-dimensional reproductions with 360-degree interactive zoom; Smithsonian Magazine described it as the world's first entirely virtual art museum, a characterisation also used by several other outlets at launch.[6] Semple has said he first conceived the idea in 1999 and revisited it roughly two decades later.[6]

Curatorial projects

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Semple, photographed with "Kurt Lied"

In 2007, Semple co-curated and featured in The Black Market at the Anna Kustera Gallery in New York with Ju$t Another Rich Kid.[25][26]

He curated Mash-Ups: Post Pop Fragments and Détournements with Nicky Carvell at the Kowalsky Gallery (DACS), London, in 2008,[27] and later produced London Loves the Way Things Fall Apart (2009) and This Is England (2011) for Galleria AUS18, Milan.[28]

In 2010, Semple curated This Is England at The Aubin Gallery (which he directed in association with Aubin & Wills and Shoreditch House), featuring Sarah Maple, Nicky Carvell, David Hancock and Richard Galloway. The exhibition later toured to Milan.[29]

That same year, Semple presented Bazooka at The Aubin Gallery as part of Neville Brody's Anti Design Festival, marking the first UK exhibition by the French collective Bazooka.[30]

In 2011, he curated the large-scale exhibition Mindful in the Old Vic Tunnels, featuring works by Tracey Emin, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Mona Hatoum, Mat Collishaw, Sebastian Horsley, Sarah Lucas, Barney Bubbles, Liliane Lijn, Tessa Farmer and Semple. The exhibition coincided with a gala dinner at the Imperial War Museum hosted by Stephen Fry and Melvyn Bragg to raise funds for the Mind Creative Therapies Fund.[31][14]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Semple co-founded VOMA with curator Lee Cavaliere (see VOMA above).

In 2021, Semple curated the exhibition Crash in a vacant department store in Bournemouth's town centre, a prototype for repurposing the former Debenhams building as a contemporary art gallery.[32]

Following this, Semple founded GIANT later in 2021 in the same building, a 15,000-square-foot artist-led gallery.[7] The gallery launched with Big Medicine, curated by Semple, featuring works by Jake and Dinos Chapman, Jim Lambie, Gavin Turk, Gary Card, Paul Fryer and others. The Observer described GIANT as "a vast, artist-run gallery bringing colour and optimism to a town centre hit hard by lockdown",[8] while Museums Journal called it "a major new arts hub for the south coast".[33] The exhibition also drew criticism after local MP Tobias Ellwood objected to one of the exhibited works, prompting public discussion about freedom of artistic expression; Semple defended the work in the local press.[34][35]

In 2022, Semple curated FOREVER: CHANGED at GIANT, a group exhibition featuring artists including Ron Arad, Sarah Hardacre, Gavin Turk, Fabio Lattanzi Antinori and Tim Noble and Sue Webster.[36] Other notable exhibitions at GIANT include Why We Shout: The Art of Protest (2021), curated by Lee Cavaliere and featuring works by Banksy, Jeremy Deller, Kacey Wong and Martha Rosler;[37] The Opposite of a Feminist (2022), a solo retrospective of Sarah Maple curated by Semple;[38] and further exhibitions by Daniel Lismore, Michael Simpson and Martin Parr.[39]

In June 2026 the magazine The Fence published an article that reported allegations from former employees at Semple's gallery.[40] Semple's legal representatives disputed the allegations.[40]

Activism

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"A POUNDING OUTSIDE POUNDLAND (or how my nose got its wonk), 2010

Hostile Design

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In January 2018, after photographing metal bars installed on public benches in his home town of Bournemouth to prevent people from lying down on them, Semple launched hostiledesign.org, a campaign and website against "hostile" or "defensive" urban design.[9][41] The site invited members of the public worldwide to photograph and submit examples of hostile design, such as dividers on benches, spikes on ledges and sills, and barriers at bus shelters, to a public archive, and to share images on social media using the hashtag #hostiledesign; Semple also distributed stickers for members of the public to place on offending structures.[10] This put pressure on the local council who subsequently removed them after the public campaign involving Semple, local residents, rapper Professor Green and designer Max Murdo.[42] Semple's campaign also led to examples being identified and challenged outside Britain, including reports of spikes being removed from flowerbeds in Mumbai.[42]

Semple continued to develop the subject through public art and broadcasting. A 2019 BBC Radio 4 documentary, Art of Now: Hostile Design, examined the use of features including bars, spikes and other forms of defensive design to control behaviour in public spaces.[43] The Big Issue later described the programme as award-nominated and linked Semple's campaigning to his recognition as a Big Issue Changemaker.[44]

In 2024, Semple worked with the creative agency TBWA\MCR on Homelessness Is Spiking, a public-awareness campaign in London that placed bespoke posters depicting people sleeping rough over existing anti-homeless spikes. The posters were designed to fit individual locations, allowing the real spikes to pierce the images and exposing their use as a deterrent.[45][46] TBWA\MCR described the campaign as an attempt to make a form of street architecture that often goes unnoticed impossible to ignore.[46] The campaign was subsequently recognised with an ACT Care Award in 2025, where Homelessness Is Spiking was listed among the winning campaigns in the NGOs and Foundations category.[47] In 2026, the campaign was ranked ninth among the world's most impactful campaigns in the ACT Good Report, while TBWA\MCR was ranked seventh among agencies globally.[48]

Semple's work on public space has also been discussed in relation to wider architectural debates. Architect Madeleine Kessler, co-curator of the British Pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, identified Semple's 2018 #HostileDesign campaign among projects that had influenced her thinking about public space, alongside other projects concerned with community use and participation.[49] Kessler and Manijeh Verghese's British Pavilion project, The Garden of Privatised Delights, explored how public space might be made more inclusive and gave particular attention to spaces for young people and other forms of social exchange.[50]

Mental health and charitable work

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In 2011, Semple was made an ambassador for the mental health charity Mind.[51] He established the Creative Therapies Fund within the charity, launched with Stephen Fry and Melvyn Bragg alongside the Mindful exhibition (see Curatorial projects), which backs mental health projects in the United Kingdom.[52] He has continued to organise fundraising art projects for the charity, including a 2015 adult colouring book.[53]

Semple has also supported Amnesty International, creating artworks for its Freedom of Expression campaign,[54] and has advocated for artists' rights in the United Kingdom through the Design and Artists Copyright Society.[55]

Colour and art materials (2016 – present)

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In 2016, the artist Anish Kapoor acquired exclusive artistic rights to Vantablack, then the darkest manufactured substance.[56] In December 2016, Semple responded with a paint titled "The World's Pinkest Pink", sold on condition that buyers declare they were not Kapoor and had no association with him.[57] Kapoor later obtained a pot by other means and posted an image of his finger dipped in it on social media.[58]

Semple followed with a series of black paints created as alternatives to Vantablack: Black 2.0 (2017), a matt acrylic developed with feedback from artists who tested early batches;[59] Black 3.0, funded through a Kickstarter campaign that raised over £400,000 and released in February 2019;[60][61] and Black 4.0 (2023), which Semple said was more stable than earlier versions and, unlike its predecessors, did not separate or crystallise at the surface over time.[62] In 2025, he released YOLO, a paint he described as approximating "olo", a colour percept reported that year by University of California researchers as produced only through direct laser stimulation of the retina; as "olo" is not a reproducible surface colour, this is Semple's own characterisation rather than a scientific equivalence.[63]

In 2021, Semple also released Easy Klein, titled "Incredibly Kleinish Blue", referencing International Klein Blue, the pigment associated with and trademarked by the estate of Yves Klein.[64] ARTnews and Artnet News reported that the estate subsequently brought a trademark infringement claim against Semple over the product, which remains ongoing.[65][66]

In June 2024, Semple changed his name by deed poll to Anish Kapoor, describing it as a way to test what ownership of a name means; he speculated the new name might let him approach Vantablack's manufacturer directly, though said he had not yet attempted it.[1][67]

Freetone

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FREETONE colours swatch

In 2022 Adobe Inc. introduced a subscription charge for access to Pantone colour libraries within its design software, causing existing Pantone-referenced colours in users' files to display as black.[68][69] In response, Semple released Freetone, a free plug-in of 1,280 colours designed to approximate the Pantone palette; its terms barred employees and associates of Adobe or Pantone from downloading or using it.[70] NPR cited Semple in 2024 as a central voice in the wider debate over Pantone's control of colour licensing, more than a year after Freetone's release, indicating the plug-in's continued relevance.[69]

Exhibitions

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Title Year Location Ref
Stolen Language 2002 A&D Gallery, London [15]
Fake Plastic Love 2007 London [71]
Everlasting Nothing Less 2009 London, Milan [72]
Happy Clouds 2009–2024 London, Dublin, Moscow, Toronto, Milan, Hong Kong [3]
The Happy House 2010 London [73]
It's Hard to Be a Saint in This City 2012 Hong Kong [74]
Suspend Disbelief 2013 London [75][76]
Anxiety Generation 2014 London [77]
My Sonic Youth 2015 Los Angeles [78]
Something Amazing 2016 United Kingdom [79]
Untitled 2016 Denver, US [80]
Happiness HQ 2018 Denver, US [81]
Dancing On My Own 2019 London [61]
D.A.B.A. – Destroy All Bad Art 2023 London [82][83]

Curated exhibitions

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Title Year Venue City Notes Ref
The Black Market 2007 Anna Kustera Gallery New York, US Co-curated with Just Another Rich Kid. [25]
Mash-Ups: Post Pop Fragments and Détournements 2008 Kowalsky Gallery (DACS) London, UK For the Design and Artists Copyright Society. Co-curated with Nicky Carvell. [27]
London Loves the Way Things Fall Apart 2009 Galleria AUS18 Milan, Italy Curated with Cecilia Antolini. [28]
This Is England 2010 Aubin Gallery London / Milan Included Sarah Maple, Nicky Carvell, David Hancock and Richard Galloway. [29]
Bazooka 2010 Aubin Gallery London, UK Presented as part of Neville Brody's Anti Design Festival; first UK exhibition by Bazooka. [30]
Mindful 2011 Old Vic Tunnels London, UK Fundraiser for Mind. [31]
I'll Be Your Mirror 2013 Eb & Flow Gallery London, UK Group photography exhibition featuring Suki Waterhouse, Reggie Yates and Imogen Morris Clarke. [84][85][86]
Crash 2021 Former department store Bournemouth, UK Prototype exhibition leading to the founding of GIANT. [32]
Big Medicine 2021 GIANT Bournemouth, UK Opening exhibition for GIANT. [8]
FOREVER: CHANGED 2022 GIANT Bournemouth, UK [36]
The Opposite of a Feminist 2022 GIANT Bournemouth, UK Solo retrospective of Sarah Maple. [38]

Speaking and writing

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Semple has spoken at the Institute of Contemporary Arts,[87] the Southbank Centre's Changing Minds festival,[88] and the Royal College of Art. He has written for The Guardian and Vogue España, and presented art-education segments for BBC Bitesize.[89]

Publications

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  • Semple, Stuart. Make Art or Die Trying: The Only Art Book You'll Ever Need If You Want to Make Art That Changes the World. Quarto/Rockport Publishers, 2021. ISBN 978-0-7603-8703-0.[90]

Discography

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  • Exit – EP (2012), a multimedia release combining painting, film and soundtrack.[91]

Film

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  • Featured as himself in the documentary This Search for Meaning (2024), about the band Placebo.[92]
  • Appeared as himself in the documentary Melt It! (2026), directed by Mark Cartwright.[93]

References

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  1. 1 2 Cascone, Sarah (31 October 2024). "Stuart Semple Has Changed His Name to Anish Kapoor". Artnet News. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  2. 1 2 "'Happy Clouds' float above Bankside". London SE1. 25 February 2009. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  3. 1 2 3 Dunne, Aidan (6 January 2014). "Cloudy with a chance of artistic smiley faces". The Irish Times. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  4. 1 2 "Get ready to smile: New downtown art will give Denver a 'happy city' makeover". Colorado Public Radio. 17 May 2018. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  5. 1 2 3 "There's More to Denver's 'Happy City' Than the Emotional Baggage Drop". Denverite. 15 May 2018. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  6. 1 2 3 Nalewicki, Jennifer (17 September 2020). "The World's First Entirely Virtual Art Museum Is Open for Visitors". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  7. 1 2 "GIANT: Major new 15,000sqft gallery opens in Bournemouth". Artdaily. August 2021. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  8. 1 2 3 Thorpe, Vanessa (7 August 2021). "Sea, sand and subversive art: can Bournemouth be reborn as a culture hub?". The Observer. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  9. 1 2 Shaw, Anny (31 January 2018). "Stuart Semple launches campaign to eradicate 'hostile design' around the world". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  10. 1 2 Voon, Claire (1 February 2018). "Artist Launches Campaign to Call Out Hostile Urban Design". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  11. ↑ Hayes, David (19 October 2013). "Personal style: Stuart Semple". Financial Times. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  12. ↑ Smith, Dominic (16 July 2011). "Interview: Stuart Semple". Soundsphere Magazine. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  13. 1 2 Hoggard, Liz (28 April 2010). "Stuart Semple: 'With my 53 allergies, I'm afraid to swallow'". Evening Standard. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  14. 1 2 Jeffreys, Tom (6 September 2011). "Mental Health and Art as Therapy – an interview with Stuart Semple". Spoonfed. Archived from the original on 1 February 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  15. 1 2 "Sewing seeds – Artist Stuart Semple on his collaboration with Aubin & Wills". Marylebone Journal. December 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
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  17. ↑ Edwardes, Charlotte (18 July 2004). "New art rises from wreckage of warehouse". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  18. ↑ "Artist protests at Saatchi show". BBC News. 5 July 2005. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  19. ↑ Reynolds, Nigel (6 July 2005). "Saatchi rumbles protest painting". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  20. ↑ "What's On". The Art Newspaper. April 2006. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  21. ↑ Gleadell, Colin (4 April 2006). "Market news: Mark Rothko, Tyeb Mehta and more". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  22. ↑ Hazel (24 February 2009). "Happy Cloud Over Tate Modern Tomorrow". Londonist. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  23. ↑ "Fed Square goes jumping mad". ArtsHub. 30 September 2013. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  24. ↑ "Festival of Happiness for Dulwich". Southwark News. 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  25. 1 2 McClemont, Doug (25 July 2007). "Doug McClemont on The Black Market at Anna Kustera, New York". Saatchi Gallery. Retrieved 2 October 2025.
  26. ↑ "The Black Market". Artforum. 2007. Retrieved 2 October 2025.
  27. 1 2 Coghlan, Niamh (1 August 2008). "Pop Art & Mass Culture curated by Stuart Semple". Aesthetica Magazine. Retrieved 2 October 2025.
  28. 1 2 "London Loves" (PDF). Kingston University. 2009. Retrieved 2 October 2025.
  29. 1 2 Davis, Laura (21 May 2010). "Exciting New Gallery for Young British Artists". Elle. Retrieved 2 October 2025.
  30. 1 2 Westall, Mark (16 September 2010). "'Bazooka' opens on Thursday 17 September at The Aubin Gallery". FAD Magazine. Retrieved 28 April 2026.
  31. 1 2 Kos-Earle, Nico (23 September 2011). "Stuart Semple: Open Your Mind". Glass Magazine. Retrieved 2 October 2025.
  32. 1 2 Carey-Kent, Paul (14 March 2021). "Stuart Semple Talks To Artlyst Candidly About His New Art Gallery". Artlyst. Retrieved 28 April 2026.
  33. ↑ Collins, Francesca (10 August 2021). "New arts hub for Bournemouth". Museums Journal. Museums Association. Retrieved 28 April 2026.
  34. ↑ Lewis, Jason (29 October 2021). "MP calls for 'tasteless' suicide vest art to be removed from town centre gallery". Bournemouth Echo. Retrieved 28 April 2026.
  35. ↑ Lewis, Jason (29 October 2021). "'Anti-war and anti-terror': Gallery founder defends suicide vest artwork". Bournemouth Echo. Retrieved 28 April 2026.
  36. 1 2 "Forever Changed: Various Giant Artists". Trebuchet Magazine. 15 July 2022. Retrieved 28 April 2026.
  37. ↑ Jenkins, Chris (7 August 2021). "The Art of Protest at Bournemouth's Giant". Arts & Collections. Retrieved 28 April 2026.
  38. 1 2 Nuvolari, Jacopo (2022). "Sarah Maple: The Opposite of a Feminist". 1883 Magazine. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  39. ↑ "Martin Parr curated by Stuart Semple". StuartSemple.com. 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2025.
  40. 1 2 Jennings, Phin (10 June 2026). "The Art of the Deal". The Fence. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  41. ↑ Jose, Katharine (12 February 2018). "An Artist Campaigns Against Anti-Homeless 'Hostile Design'". Planetizen. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  42. 1 2 Geraghty, Liam (13 February 2018). "Hostile takeover: Who is welcome in our public spaces?". The Big Issue. Retrieved 5 September 2026.
  43. ↑ "Art of Now: Hostile Design". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 5 September 2026.
  44. ↑ Schiltz, Brontë (8 February 2025). "Artist Stuart Semple on why arts education needs an urgent reset: 'It's like battery farming'". The Big Issue. Retrieved 5 September 2026.
  45. ↑ Geraghty, Liam (31 July 2024). "Shocking art project spotlights 'insidious' anti-homeless spikes and hostile architecture". The Big Issue. Retrieved 5 September 2026.
  46. 1 2 "Hostile Design". TBWA\MCR. Retrieved 5 September 2026.
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  48. ↑ "TBWA\MCR Ranks 7th Most Impactful Agency in 2026 ACT Good Report". LBBonline. 2026. Retrieved 5 September 2026.
  49. ↑ "Conversations on power: Jeremy Goldstein, Manijeh Verghese and Madeleine Kessler". London Festival of Architecture. 12 June 2020. Retrieved 5 September 2026.
  50. ↑ "The Garden of Privatised Delights (Venice)". Madeleine Kessler Architecture. Retrieved 5 September 2026.
  51. ↑ "Britain's top artists rally together for Mind fundraising exhibition". Mind. 8 September 2011. Archived from the original on 20 January 2013. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  52. ↑ "Talking about mental health with Stuart Semple". Mind. 6 March 2014. Retrieved 28 April 2026.
  53. ↑ Semple, Stuart (2 July 2015). "My Happy Colouring Flip Book". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  54. ↑ Hirschmiller, Stephanie (4 December 2011). "Write On! Artist Stuart Semple does it in a Box(park) for Amnesty International". Harper's Bazaar. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  55. ↑ "Debate on the Future Economy of Art". DACS. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  56. ↑ Delaney, Brigid (26 September 2016). "'You could disappear into it': Anish Kapoor on his exclusive rights to the 'blackest black'". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  57. ↑ "This Artist Is the Only Person Banned From Using the World's Pinkest Pink". Smithsonian Magazine. 16 December 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  58. ↑ "The war over the world's pinkest pink is getting ridiculous". The Independent. 27 December 2016. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
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  64. ↑ "Incredibly Kleinish Blue acrylic paint". Culture Hustle USA. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  65. ↑ Cascone, Sarah. "Artist Stuart Semple Is Being Sued Over His Yves Klein–Inspired Blue Paint". ARTnews. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  66. ↑ "Yves Klein's Estate Sued Stuart Semple Over a Blue Paint". Artnet News. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  67. ↑ Small, Kate (20 February 2026). "Dorset Art Weeks 2026 returns – what to expect". Bournemouth Echo. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  68. ↑ Stokel-Walker, Chris. "Adobe Just Held a Bunch of Colors Hostage". Wired. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  69. 1 2 "Does Pantone have a monopoly on colors? Is that bad?". NPR. 25 July 2024. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
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  72. ↑ Chambers, Christopher Hart (2009). "Stuart Semple: Everlasting Nothing Less". Flash Art. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  73. ↑ Spero, Josh (2010). "Stuart Semple, Morton Metropolis". The Arts Desk. Retrieved 10 September 2011.
  74. ↑ Agnew, Mary (17 February 2012). "Stuart Semple on How It's Hard to be a Saint in the City". ARTINFO China.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  75. ↑ Khan, Karim (2015). "Stuart Semple Suspend Disbelief". Hunger. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  76. ↑ "In pictures: Stuart Semple". BBC News. 16 October 2013. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  77. ↑ "Stuart Semple's Private View". Tatler. 18 November 2014. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  78. ↑ "The Interview: Stuart Semple". Hunger.tv. 12 October 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  79. ↑ Battersby, Matilda (26 August 2016). "The art of infertility". The Independent. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  80. ↑ "Lane Meyer Projects exhibition page". Lane Meyer Projects. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  81. ↑ "Happy City by Stuart Semple". NINE dot ARTS. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  82. ↑ "D.A.B.A." All is Joy. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  83. ↑ "Stuart Semple: D.A.B.A. – Destroy All Bad Art". Art Plugged. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  84. ↑ "I'll Be Your Mirror". Eb & Flow Gallery. 2013.
  85. ↑ "Next Models host photography exhibition 'I'll Be Your Mirror'". Vogue. 12 April 2013. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  86. ↑ Feldman, Deborah (5 April 2013). "Meet the MAPstar*... *that's Model, Actress, Photographer". Evening Standard. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  87. ↑ Culture Now: Stuart Semple in Conversation with Josh Spero. Institute of Contemporary Arts. 13 November 2013. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
  88. ↑ "Changing Minds". Time Out. 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  89. ↑ "BBC Bitesize". BBC. 2020. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  90. ↑ "Make Art or Die Trying". Quarto. 2024. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  91. ↑ "Exit - EP by Stuart Semple". Apple Music. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  92. ↑ Smith, Dom (2024). "This Search For Meaning". Soundsphere Magazine. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  93. ↑ "The Iceman Cometh... Soon to a Cinema Near You". Chortle. 8 June 2026. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  1. ↑ Semple changed his name in 2024. He is still commonly referred to by his birth name.[1]
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