Fergal Stapleton (b.1961, England) is a contemporary artist living and working in London. Stapleton studied at Middlesex Polytechnic and graduated from the MA Programme at Goldsmiths College, London in 1993. Between 1994 and 1997 he collaborated on a number of works with Turner Prize nominee Rebecca Warren A retrospective of their work Material Culture; Sculpture from the 80s and 90s was exhibited at London's Hayward Gallery in 1997 Stapleton is represented by Carl Freedman Gallery, London, where he has had three solo shows, I Shall Arrive Soon in 2003, Stapleton Grey ( which he described as an exhibition of paintings of interior twilights, ash atmospherics, hope expressed in loose change, woozy surface mix-ups, semi-curious squints at uncertain shapes and irrelevant light-sources ) in 2006 and And a Door Opened in 2007. His work will be included in the 2007 Frieze Art Fair
Solo Exhibitions
- And a Door Opened (Carl Freedman Gallery, 2007)
- Stapleton Grey, (Counter Gallery, London, 2006)
- I Shall Arrive Soon (Counter Gallery, London, 2003)
- Crack Whore (Five Years, London, 2002)
- Bad Ape Report (Neon gallery Billboard, London, 2001)
- This (Platform, London, 2000)
- Rank Cheeseboard (Five Years, London, 2000)
- Riutsu Centre (Tokyo, 1996)
- Tonight (The Agency, London, 1995)
- His manner of entertaining us...the worst thing I have ever done, The Agency, London, 1993
