Celia Hempton (born Stroud, England)[1] is a British artist based in London and has exhibited internationally across Europe, Asia and North and South America.
[6] Hempton is most famous for her series 'Chat Random' (2014–ongoing), which consists of images of male genitalia found through the website Chatrandom.com.
[7] She cycles through the different live images of people she finds online using her laptop then begins to paint often using bright artificial colours.
Hempton sees this series as subverting the male gaze and uses her position as a woman to confront the taboo of painting a penis.
Her paintings vary in size, sometimes mimicking a mobile or laptop screen, other times taking up a large scale.