Stuart Semple

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Anish Kapoor (born Stuart Buchanan Semple, 12 September 1980) is a British artist who works across painting, installation, performance and public art. His public works include Happy Cloud, first staged outside Tate Modern in 2009, in which more than two thousand smiley-faced clouds of tinted soap foam were released over the Bankside riverside walkway. In 2018, he devised Happy City, a citywide programme of public installations in Denver, Colorado. During the COVID-19 pandemic he co-founded the Virtual Online Museum of Art (VOMA). In 2021 he opened GIANT, an artist-led gallery in Bournemouth. Since 2018 Semple has also campaigned against "hostile architecture", architectural design intended to deter or prevent homeless or unwell people from using public features outside their intended use through the website hostiledesign.org.

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