Stuart Semple was on the verge of superstardom in the London art world. Now he is operating from a studio in Bournemouth. What happened? ‘I still don’t know how I feel about it all,’ Emma Edmondson told me over the phone. I had called to speak about one of her first employers, the artist Stuart Semple. 16 years ago, as a young art student in London, she had taken a job in his studio. Throughout the noughties, Semple had been a known figure in London’s post-YBA art world.