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We are pleased to announce Stuart's first solo show in Asia, opening on 7th October 2009 at The Cat Street Gallery in Hong Kong.

Labels: cat street gallery, exhibition, hong kong, limited edition

In an edition of just 75, each are personally hand finished by Semple who has added a secret image only to be seen in the dark. A super rare deluxe edition of ‘Thunder’ limited to just 25 prints will also feature gold foil detailing.

Each print is published by Little Art Book using traditional hand silkscreen printing techniques and is embossed and hand signed by both The Prodigy and Stuart Semple.

Available now via www.theprodigy.com

Thunder

Published by LAB, August 2009

5 colour hand finished screen print

on 250 gsm Somerset paper

In an edition of 75 (yellow teeth) & 25 (gold teeth)

www.theprodigy.com

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On the 14th June 2009, in the streets of Brick Lane in London, you might find one of these 'FREE LOVE' prints...




If you manage to find one, please bring it to Stuart Semple's stand at the Art Car Boot Fair, at the Truman Brewery and he'll gladly sign it, (for free)! Even better, get it signed for a friend to share the love!

More info on the art car boot fair and the line up of artists and events (including: Gavin Turk, Sir Peter Blake, Natasha Law, Studio Voltaire & Donald Urquhart, Bob and Roberta Smith, Pam Hogg)
can be seen here:

ARTCARBOOTFAIR.com

Hope to see you down there for what is always a lovely Sunday.

Labels: art car boot, edition, limited edition

Don't Stop Believing

Edition of 30

Biro on Saunders Waterford paper

21 x 21 cm

robot drawing #1
Don't Stop Believing...

To coincide with “Everlasting Nothing Less”, his exhibition at the Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, Stuart Semple presents “Don’t Stop Believing”.

Extending Stuart’s critique of the mechanized image within art, each limited edition work is “hand” drawn in biro by a precision programmed robot.

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Labels: Alec Doherty, carnival of fear, Copyright, Joanna Pallaris, Kam Rehal, limited edition, Lonely Punks Prints Collective, noi wear, Orly Orbach, season 3, TWIY

Labels: bling spat, limited edition, other criteria, pretty taxing

Just £10 - Car tax disc art - Stuart has been commissioned alongside leading designers Pam Hogg, David David, Natasha Law and Emma Bell to create a limited edition tax disc holder as part of the 'Pretty Taxing Fashion Edition' by the creators of the iconic 'Art Car Boot Fair' as a follow up to their last series of discs featuring designs by Peter Blake, Gary Hume, Mat Collishaw & Sarah Lucas.

Stuart's 'Bling Splat' is sized 750mm diameter. Printed onto high quality art stock using light fast, high density inks to ensure a vibrant and lasting reproduction. Slotted into bespoke Pretty Taxing holder and presented in day-glo pink packaging.

Available from:

http://www.artcarbootfair.com

For just £10!

Labels: art car boot, edition, limited edition, other criteria, pretty taxing

These days album art is a jpeg flicker on your iPod. Gone are the days of the beautifully designed 12 inch record, the heady anticipation of returning from the record shop to unfold your bounty. Perhaps when musicians turned into celebrities and no longer could earn a living from their work, the chance to create an artistic object that could be owned and tactile evaporated too.

Stuart's spent the last three mounths working closely with cult indie band the Subliminal Girls to create what may be one of the most exclusive and multi faceted singles of recet times. Re articulating the bands songs ‘Self Obsession is an Artform’, ‘Posh Girls Names’ and ‘Electronic Hearts’, Stuart has produced just 10 copies of these beautiful hand silk screened boxes that encase a limited edition 10" vinyl, tshirt, fold out print, photographic book, negatives of the band and a t shirt inscribed with all of the Posh Girls names.

The boxset can be pre-ordered from:
aus18.it (Milan)
opus (online)
thecatstreetgallery.com (Hong Kong)
annakustera.com (New York)

for dispatch on the 17th November when the single will be released.

On behalf of the band, Stuart and all the Posh Girls, we would like to thank Les Carter of Carter USM, Lewis Childs at Earth Terminal Studios, K2 Screen, Simon Painter, Dom Popart, Keir Mills and Pete Jones PiL (Public Image Limited).

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Celebrating Warhol's 80th B'day.......

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New limited edition for release at MiArt Fair Milan 3rd April 2008.

To coincide with Stuart's show 'Pop Disciple' at AUS18 in Milan we are pleased to announce we will be releasing this new limited edition at MiArt tonight.

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'Chloe' & 'Bubrerry' are the latest collaboration between Stuart Semple and Ju$t Another Rich Kid.

Originally a satirical take on fashion advertising and the lost power of repetition within branding. These beautiful editions (of just 10 each) feature Stuart's mixed media drawing and Ju$t Another Rich Kid's trademark blood splatters and debuted at Art Miami in December.

Digital print in 16 colours on 200gsm matte archival paper, signed and numbered by both Just Another Rich Kid and Stuart Semple.

Available in the SEMPLE STORE now.

http://semple-store.com

Labels: art miami, ju$t another rich kid, limited edition

New limited edition prints and a couple of originals added to the store
check it out HERE

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Limited edition of 5000
Distributed at FRIEZE art fair 2007

Labels: fake plastic love, frieze, limited edition

The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in NYC have bought a couple for their permanent collection. Where's yours?

Playground is a new bi-annual magazine in the form of limited-edition loose leaf prints. The first issue, which features handmade works by artists Terence Koh and Stuart Semple, alongside spreads that include designs by the likes of Thom Browne, Lanvin, Surface to Air and Alexander Wang, among others. In the Playground world even the box is a work of art; the dripping white surface is a collaboration with designer Dror Benshetrit.

Limited to an edition of 250, Playground will be distributed only in a select few stores in major cities but is available for $600 by contacting gallery Anna Kustera (where it's also on view as part of the group show "The Black Market" through 3 August 2007).

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Labels: art car boot, gavin turk, limited edition, Nick Gough

THIS SUNDAY (the 8th July)

11 am - 6 pm



We will be causing HAVOCK at this years ART CAR BOOT FAIR (Truman Brewery)

In BRICK LANE, LONDON



Join us and:



Gavin Turk ; Abigail Lane; Peter Blake; Tracey Emin; Vivienne Westwood ; Matt Collishaw; Marcus & Harvey Harvey; Bob and Roberta Smith; Showroom Dummies; Pam Hogg



+ OTHERS



BARGAINS TO BE HAD :)



ENTRANCE TAX just 2 quid!



MORE INFO:



http://www.artcarbootfair.com/



PRINT AND KEEP YOUR limited edition DELOREAN:

http://stuartsemple.com/carboot.jpg

Yeah... we got the car!

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The Semple Store is now OPEN! And to celebrate we've created an exclusive limited edition multiple. Signed and numbered, a pill, a scroll, a bullet, a badge and a lino print all in a tasty burger box.

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Two screaming fits, three stolen hoodies and twenty burst bags of flour later I was close to a full-blown mental and physical break down. I don’t think I was alone. Dave the set builder was wandering around the destroyed venue aimlessly, hand to crooked glasses, face frozen in an expression of dazed bemusement. Like me he had no comprehension of how to contain the explosion of unholy mess and writhing semi-naked girls that surrounded him. Stuart had already stealthily taken his leave, his instincts telling him that something completely undignified was about to happen; it was almost his bedtime anyway. The venue staff could see something that very very wild was happening and could only watch in horror as people were dragged unconscious from the building in states of vomit inducing intoxication and the very fixtures of the building itself were being wrenched free.


What the hell was happening here?

As my eyes meet that of an Aleister Crowley print decorating the wall I swear I saw him wink; I’m sure he would have enjoyed this. The Semple clothing launch was an incredible party…It was also an incident. Celebrity guests had gotten as far as the door and turned around, terrified by the spectacle of most unMayfair hospitality that was occurring inside; somehow the clash of Avant youth, fashion industry insiders, club kids, journalists, sensible PR types and genuine art lunatics had transformed from an intriguing culture clash to social semtex.

We hadn’t intended things to be quite like this. The girls in the window were supposed to be reclined in melancholic fabulousness as chilled champagne was daintily poured and passed to V.I.P guests, I was supposed to be breezing around keeping an eye on the entertainment and showing the garment to interested parties…I’d planned to not even sip a complimentary cocktail as I wanted to be totally at my sharp and witty best; this turned out to be a very good move. The first problem was that the elaborate window set wasn’t finished in time for opening. In a last minute fuck-up the venue had double booked our prep time with a Primal Scream photoshoot. A shoot that HAD to take place exactly in front of the window that required the most work to complete. In a moment of hair tearing frustration the window dressing team had to sit out two hours waiting for the band and crew to leave. I normally don’t mind Primal Scream, they have some good tunes, but at that moment I wanted to dance around their spike mounted dismembered heads and scream at the sky.

Predictably the shoot overran and we were left with very little time to actually complete the décor and it had to look good AND be safe before the girls could be allowed inside. As important people were waiting to get inside Dave and his assistants scrambled to finish up. A journalist who had come down especially to interview Stuart couldn’t get to him as the queue grew outside; he ended up having to chase her down the street to let her know he hadn’t actually blown her out in a moment of mercurial artistic self consciousness. Finally after a seeming age of stapling and spray-painting the girls were in position; the vast numbers of V.I.P guests invited to the early part of the event surged inside and the mood was exuberant. The initial part of the night went fairly smoothly after that; Nicky Biscuit played a few numbers to delighted applause, the drink flowed, Jim Warboy showed the bredth of his musical knowledge as he played some awesome psychedelic tunes. The hoodies were groped and admired by all the right people (and some of the wrong ones, it was around this time that clothes were stolen from the display rail).

So what went sent the party into meltdown…

On to problem two and three…2) The venue was getting very very full, people were finding it hard to move and the atmosphere began to get a touch frenetic as it was hard to not to be swept up by either a new wave of familiar faces or just the movement of the crowd. 3) The melancholy models were getting drunk. They had been nervous being situated in the large window with so little clothing, so we had sent them a few bottles of champagne to ease their embarrassment…It turned out that several kind souls had a similar idea and had been helping them to get beyond wasted. They went from reclined beauties to saucy demons of destruction in hotpants. To incite this transformation further a couple of the boys from it band Trash Fashion who were also enjoying the free booze climbed into the set with the girls and much to the amusement of the crowd of East London Line workmen outside began to get frisky with the ladies. In defence of their honour the girls dumped flour all over the boys; Make bread not love?

That was the beginning of the end and it was only 9:15pm.




The party was getting raw by this point; Slim from Teens of Thailand was playing some choice vinyl and downstairs was opened early by DJ Med Damon to contain the mass of revellers. As several of the girls stumbled to the bathroom to wash flour from their burning eyes Rum Shebeen wowed the crowd with their acoustic set; complete with biscuit tin drums and pumping double bass.

Downstairs as the more banging music hit the floor and it became clear that the virtually calm V.I.P reception was drawing to a close and the scenesters and art freaks were taking over. Soon I had an insistent tug at my sleeve, some of the soundsystem downstairs had been damaged by a flying drink and as a result the DJs could only play vinyl…. Doing the best I could I tried to assess the damage and take emergency action…Unfortunately most of the people who could offer assistance were blind drunk and totally useless by this point. As I burst through the door to the upstairs floor cradling a handful of cables and hoping to get some geek back-up a surreal sight greeted me. One whole side of Jaguar Shoes was totally white; on the sofa sat several of my friends and Semple associates who wore matching goofy smiles and an inch thick layer of plain flour. In retrospect this was kinda funny, but there in that moment my already strained good humour drained from my body like the free vodka from the bar. Like some twisted battle scene people stumbled in various states of dishevelment trying to sweep the dust from their clothes, the girls, who were barely able to stand wobbled from seat to seat occasionally falling onto some poor bystander who was pulling a fur jacket/blazer/expensive camera from the aftermath. Seeing the set vacant some crazed individuals who were eager to get in on the action overran the window display; in response to all this excitement and the crowd of people stood outside of the venue swelled to such an extent that a few of those stupefied gawpers in narrowly avoided being hit by passing traffic.





I tried feebly to find out who was responsible for the flour fight, but to be honest the time for constructive communication had passed, the best I could hope for was that nobody got killed. At least by something other than my hand, for I believed that homicide could be rationalised to most western courts of law on grounds of diminished responsibility by this point. Amusingly as the flour had doused the girls it had rubbed off the paint that had covered their nipples and left them two exposed tits too much for a venue without a nudity licence….!

On direction of the Jaguar Shoes team I had to run from model to model with a black lipstick in hand trying pathetically to stop them from being very nude up top by colouring in nipples. Despite the insanity there weren’t many people leaving, in fact probably because of the insanity the venue was still totally rammed and all the messy people, literally and figuratively, were still posing, collapsing (I had to clear the stairway personally for at least two casualties) and dancing. The party was eventually closed an hour early; the venue managers being genuinely petrified of the outcome should the lunacy continue for its allotted time. As the faithful were bundled into the winter evening, in turn stunned. enchanted or horrified by what they had just witnessed, myself, Dave, Jim Warboy and some other friends of the industry tidied up the best we could.

Semple Clothing has officially arrived and just like the Rebels and Devils that feature on the clothing it has made its mark on the world. For those of you who came and made it a once in a lifetime party, thank you dearly, it was good to see you. Maybe next time we can bring some eggs and make pancakes.

THE DreamBagsJaguarShoes Blog: http://www.jaguarshoes.com/?p=2&b=18

FOR MORE INCREDIBLE IMAGES:

http://www.weknowwhatyoudidlastnight.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellis_club/
http://www.dirtydirtydancing.com/

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We've hand customized 500 limited edition issues of Tesco Disco magazine. Signed and numbered by Stuart. They're free... so you'd better hurry!

Available now from:

Dover Street Market, The Pineal Eye, Doors by Jas MB, Beyond the Valley, Pokit & Swear.
ALL IN LONDON!



TESCO DISCO IS ALSO A NOCTURNAL ART SALON

Every wednesday, private members club 43 south molton, gives over it's basement to Tesco Disco, an invigorating collection of film, live music, performance, dj's and painting.

The current theme is Beatism and last week Stuart showed this short film based on Ginsberg's poem 'America'






For more info check out: tescodisco.co.uk

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