Patrick Semple was born in Hertfordshire in 1962 and brought up in Kent. He studied at Medway and at Exeter College of Art and Design, moved to a studio in East London in 1984.


Alongside his art practice he has worked as a designer in both the publishing and advertising worlds. Between 1996 and 2002 he won many awards as a Creative Director in the New Media industry.

In 2003 he moved to a barn in Aberdeenshire, Scotland to make art full-time.

He has shown work in both Scotland and London and now lives and works by Deptford Creek.

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Across the yard from the old studio in Bow there was a great big Victorian sweet factory on four floors. It backed onto a disused railway line that is now DLR. Its huge windows looked out onto a brick-walled yard filled with waste print beyond which was A&A sculpture. Each day brought a new flock of reject magazines to drink from the puddles.
Once, there was a ten-foot tall head of the Archbishop Makarios staring in through the window



Patrick Semple also edits the online magazine
DontAskNothing.com