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INFORMATION

Gillies Adamson Semple (b. Edinburgh, UK)

Lives and Works in London, UK

 

CONTACT 

gilliesasemple@gmail.com

 

EDUCATION 

Slade School of Fine Art, MFA Fine Art, 2020-2022

Central Saint Martins, London, UAL, BA Fine Art, First Class Hons, 2015 - 18

Kungliga Konsthögskolan, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, BA Fine Art, 2017

Leeds College of Art, Leeds, Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, 2014 - 2015

 

springseason

Director

47 Martello Street, E83PE

www.springseason.org

fivehundredthousand:

Gallery co-director, 2016 - 2020 

www.fivehundredthousand.co.uk

SELECTED SHOWS AND SCREENINGS :

 

upcoming:

Ai Mi Tagai, Lethaby Gallery, 2021

past:

Fieldworks Spring Season, August 2020

Operation Flower, 16 Nicholson Street, Glasgow, September 2019

Ai Mi Tagai, Tokyo Geidai, July 2019

Intimate Terms with the Prairie, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, June 2019

showerthoughts, w/ Nat Faulkner, San Mei Gallery February 2019

Papercuts, Saatchi Gallery November 2018

Jaws, Limbo Limbo, October 2018

fivehundredthousand lecture at UDK, Berlin, with Harry Smithson and Eliot Z Felde, July 2018

Perform & Pixel, fivehundredthousand, June 2018

Shift Lecture, with Gonçalo Lamas. 2018

Tablarasa, (Solo Show) The Take Courage Gallery. 2018 

Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, 2018

Economy of the Living, (Solo Show) Fivehundredthousand. 2018

Temporalities, Lethaby Gallery. 2018

My Love for you Grows, Basic Mountain. 2017 (With Maximilian Klawitter)

Rundgang, Kungliga Konsthögskolan. 2017

Holds May Spin, Limbo Limbo. 2017 (with Harry Smithson and Eliot Z Felde)

LIVE FROM FUTURO HOUSE, Futuro House. 2017 (With Harry Smithson)

Brown Cube 1 & 2, Brown Cube Gallery. 2016 - 2017

Down Press Down, Basic Mountain. 2016 (With Harry Smithson and Eliot Z Felde)

ROOM SHOW, Doomed Gallery. 2016

Rinse, Repeat, Safehouse Gallery. 2016

BATTERY POWER, Safehouse Gallery. 2015

hibition, Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, 2015

PUBLICATIONS and PRESS :

FAD Magazine Interview :

https://fadmagazine.com/2020/09/02/gillies-adamson-semple-interview-i-found-that-an-absence-of-discernible-scripture-meant-that-symbols-and-images-became-more-important-than-language/

Breadcrumb 2020

Ai Mi Tagai 2019

archipelago archipelago !, Kungl. Konstögskolan, 2017

Bitter Magazine, 2016

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES :

Grapevine Residency, 2020

LTYE Youkobo Art Space Artist in Residence, Tokyo, 2019

ACME Associates Programme 2018 - 2020

Workweek Prize Nominee, 2018 (w/ fivehundredthousand gallery)

Hollyport Prize, Shortlisted. 2017

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