Stuart Middleton works across a range of media including sculpture, drawing, video, and sound. Through his practice, Middleton directs his distinct poetic and imaginative sensibility toward diverse subjects. He often returns to images of the ways in which the organic body (human, animal, or other) is put through the machinery of standardization (a factory clock, a family unit, a wedding dress). Centered around personal experiences, as well as observations of and engagements with everyday life, Middleton’s work draws patterns of connection between deceptively simple sources.

Middleton’s immersive installations are often pared down to an extreme, balancing contrasting forces such as architectural engineering, organic matter, traditional artistic media, industrial manufacturing methods, restoration techniques, distorted audio recordings, waste, found material, and handcrafted objects. Writing is an important part of his work and a range of creative and accessible texts exist alongside many of his projects.

Stuart Middleton (b.1987 Crewe, UK) lives and works in West Wales. He studied at Camberwell College of Art in London and at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany. Middleton has had solo exhibitions at Chapter NY, New York; Carlos/Ishikawa, London; Kunstlerhaus Graz; Tramway, Glasgow; and ICA London. His work has been shown in group exhibitions at Villa Imperiale, Pesaro; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Greene Naftali, New York; Kunsthaus Glarus; and Camden Arts Centre, London; among others. In 2025 he will exhibit at Clementin Seedorf, Cologne and Raven Row, London.

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