Stuart Semple Gives Away ‘Pinkest Pink’ to Everyone – Except Anish Kapoor
16 March 2026 • Mark Westall
Stuart Semple is marking the tenth anniversary of his infamous Pinkest Pink pigment by giving it away to the public for free
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Stuart Semple is a multidisciplinary British artist working across painting, sculpture, happenings, technology and activism. He is well known for his sociologically engaged works that often discuss youth politics, accessibility and democracy.
You can now Ghost, Attack or use Acid thanks to Stuart Semple & Liquitex.
25 September 2025 • Mark Westall
Stuart Semple & Liquitex have launched SUBSTANCE, a collaborative collection of twelve hyper-saturated colours that refuse to behave.
Stuart Semple’s floral art installation will bloom at Jersey Zoo.
29 April 2025 • Mark Westall
Bloom Inspired by Gerald Durrell and designed by Stuart Semple is a colourful meadow made up of almost five-thousand flower sculptures
Signs of Life: Online Exhibition Showcases Debut Artworks from Stuart Semple’s Art School Masters Students
21 July 2024 • Mark Westall
Stuart Semple presents “Signs of Life,” an online exhibition featuring the debut artworks from the first cohort of graduates from his online art school program.
Stuart Semple to open a radical new participatory exhibition in London- in search for the purity of the idea.
9 August 2023 • Mark Westall
A radical new participatory exhibition arrives in London’s Soho this September. D.A.B.A. (Destroy All Bad Art) is a complex installation and live art project by Stuart Semple
Stuart Semple + HIT and RUN = rhyming artist Tees
17 October 2022 • Mark Westall
British artist Stuart Semple has lifted name-dropping to an art form with these one-off witty creations,
in a new collaboration with HIT and RUN.
Mother + Stuart Semple launch limited-edition set of protest art tools- The Gay Blood Collection.
9 September 2022 • Mark Westall
Today, creative company Mother has debuted The Gay Blood Collection, a limited-edition set of protest art tools with the help of artist and activist Stuart Semple, intended to bring awareness to a discriminatory FDA rule that excludes gay men from donating blood.
Stuart Semple & team create White 2.0, the world’s brightest, whitest paint for artists.
15 November 2021 • Mark Westall
Colour wizard artist Stuart Semple has revealed that the quest for the whitest white paint has stepped up a gear… Read More
Major new 15,000sqft gallery to open in August.
13 July 2021 • Mark Westall
GIANT, a new 15,000 square foot gallery in Bournemouth, will re-open on 7th August 2021. The largest artist-led space in the UK, GIANT is situated within a historic building in the heart of the town centre.
Stuart Semple & his Marvellous ‘Magic’ Memory Machine.
11 May 2021 • Mark Westall
Renowned conceptual artist Stuart Semple announces his Marvellous Memory Machine, a major new project to preserve local memories with, coming to Bournemouth this month.
Stuart Semple opens new gallery GIANT with inaugural exhibition: CRASH
25 February 2021 • Mark Westall
GIANT, a brand-new artist-run space in Bournemouth, launches with its inaugural exhibition: CRASH. Dedicated to presenting challenging works by seminal international contemporary artists
Stuart Semple today unveiled ‘NO SHOW,’
26 January 2021 • Mark Westall
Stuart Semple today unveiled ‘NO SHOW,’ an exhibition without any artwork except one half-primed canvas. A comment on the financial and mental barriers to artists making work during these times.
The Top 5 Art Christmas Gifts
13 December 2020 • Tabish Khan
Beginning a week-long look at art gifts for Christmas on FAD magazine Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic has picked 5 Christmas gifts – no need to blow the budget and great gifts for even those who don’t celebrate Christmas.
Stuart Semple takes legal action after Grayson Perry comments on Covid
3 November 2020 • Mark Westall
In reaction to Grayson Perry’s ill-judged comments on Covid-19, contemporary artist Stuart Semple has officially revoked Perry’s Artistic Licence.
Stuart Semple launches the world’s first official Artistic License
4 September 2020 • Mark Westall
Stuart Semple’s cultureHustle recently announced the release of an official Artistic License, empowering creative individuals and organisations to go forth and innovate.
‘Every Day is a Miracle’ an Art Below exhibition
16 July 2020 • Mark Westall
‘Every Day is a Miracle’ is Art Below’s first gallery exhibition since January, opening Friday 17th July at Ad Lib Gallery.
World’s first virtual museum VOMA to launch next month – with your help
7 May 2020 • Mark Westall
VOMA – the Virtual Online Museum of Art – is the world’s first virtual museum. Opening next month, it will present exquisitely curated exhibitions to feature seminal works on loan from major institutions around the world, alongside those by our most celebrated contemporary artists.
Stuart Semple creates the world’s whitest white paint during COVID lockdown
24 April 2020 • Mark Westall
The quest for the whitest white paint is set to be the next chapter in the ongoing art wars. Art nerd and colour wizard Stuart Semple has been whipping up the whitest white paint whilst in COVID isolation.
Thousands of isolated artists join together to draw online in a global internet moment
23 March 2020 • Mark Westall
On Friday night, British artist Stuart Semple contributed by opening his studio and hiring a life model, then streaming a free, live, online life-drawing class via Facebook for everyone to take part.
Leading artists donate to heART & SOUL, the second biannual auction in aid of Arms Around The Child.
19 February 2020 • Mark Westall
This spring, artists from around the globe will donate their work to heART & SOUL, the second biannual auction in aid of Arms Around The Child, a charity that provides children in Africa and India, who are directly or indirectly affected by HIV/AIDS, orphaned, abandoned or abused, with much-needed homes, safety, education, healthcare and community.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London in September
18 August 2019 • Tabish Khan
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this September include: The pinkest pink, a merry go round, laser beams, a flaming bee, dogs, religion and big sculpture.
Stuart Semple’s ‘Dancing on My Own: Selected Works 1999 – 2019’
5 August 2019 • Mark Westall
Opening this week a major show for the summer, Stuart Semple’s ‘Dancing on My Own: Selected Works 1999 – 2019’. Curated by Lee Cavaliere. ‘Dancing on My Own’ will be the artist’s first London show in over five years.
World renowned artist Anish Kapoor banned from Mayfair ‘ArtShop’ in ongoing feud.
4 August 2019 • Mark Westall
The multi-millionaire Turner prize-winning artist Anish Kapoor has been barred from a new central London art shop. Mayfair’s new ‘ArtShop’ has been created by fellow British artist and long-term rival Stuart Semple
Stuart Semple installs elaborate Kapoor Katcher in Central London
19 March 2019 • Mark Westall
British artist Stuart Semple denies blowing £450,000, raised via crowdfunding, an elaborate trap for his nemesis Anish Kapoor.