Stuart Semple is a contemporary British artist and curator, based in London and Dorset. Known for his large scale canvases incorporating text and found imagery, Semple's practice addresses ideas sparked by immersion in popular culture and combines contemporary figurative painting with pop art. His work has strong links with Richard Hamilton’s Pop Art, but has a contemporary emphasis on latent fear and threat rather than Hamilton’s consumer culture and glamour. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Semple] Born in Dorset in 1980, Semple became an artist after a traumatic near-death experience at 19 while studying Fine Art at Breton Hall in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Since 2000 Semple has enjoyed a successful artistic career in which he been the subject of 15 international solo exhibitions. He has featured in over 40 group shows and major public art projects. In his works, the emotional and spiritual impact of mass culture... [http://stuartsemple.com/about/] "I’m not sure I really know what art is or isn’t anyway, but I do think there’s a place where a lot of great ideas can’t possibly be true art, and that’s when its primary objective is to satisfy a market.... Obviously those ideas fluctuate depending on trends and cultures anyway. For me, a lot of fashion is probably art, or at least very close to it. And, sadly when we talk about trends and taste, a lot of art is probably fashion." [http://fillermagazine.com/fashion/news/art-fashion-the-great-collaboration-between-artists-and-clothing-brands-with-stuart-semple/] Only Person Banned From Using the World’s Pinkest Pink https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/artist-only-person-banned-using-worlds-pinkest-pink-180961464/ Anish Kapoor gets his hands on 'pinkest pink' http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/anish-kapoor-pinkest-pink-blackest-black-paint-war-a7497751.html Who’s behind art’s dark little secret, Vantablack? http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/vantablack-anish-kapoor undefined

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