85-580: The Stuckists Punk Victorian was the first national gallery exhibition of Stuckist art. It was held at the Walker Art Gallery and Lady Lever Art Gallery in Liverpool from 18 September 2004 to 20 February 2005 and was part of the 2004 Liverpool Biennial . It comprised more than 250 paintings by 37 artists, mostly from the UK but also with a representation of international Stuckist artists from
170-561: A Stuckist candidate for the 2001 British General Election , in the constituency of Islington South & Finsbury , against Chris Smith , the then Secretary of State for Culture . He picked up 108 votes (0.4%). Childish left the group at this time because he objected to Thomson's leadership. From 2002 to 2005 Thomson ran the Stuckism International Centre and Gallery in Shoreditch, London. In 2003, under
255-517: A debate about the S&;M/fetish allusion. She got really pissed off with me because I didn’t agree with her. Then it got a bit nasty—the whole thing was just daft. Then the show got cancelled—and it had all been a complete waste of my fucking time." He later repainted the placard with a woman's face, and it was used in this form for the Walker show. In 2006, he was one of the ten "leading Stuckists" in
340-434: A documentary on the poets. That year, Emin, then a fashion student, and Childish started a relationship; her writing was edited by Bill Lewis, printed by Thomson and published by Childish. Group members published dozens of works. The poetry group dispersed after two years, reconvening in 1987 to record The Medway Poets LP. Clark, Howard and Machine became involved over the following years. Thomson got to know Williams, who
425-788: A full-time lecturer in graphic design at North Tyneside College (now Tyne Metropolitan College, within The Creative Studios department). The same year, he joined the Stuckism art group, founding a Newcastle branch. In 2002, he joined Murray's re-formed punk band Penetration ; he curated the show, Stuck in Newcastle , at the Newcastle Arts Centre, and was a joint winner of the Stuckists Real Turner Prize Show 2002 . He showed with
510-695: A major public museum was held in 2004 at the Walker Art Gallery , as part of the Liverpool Biennial . The group has demonstrated annually at Tate Britain against the Turner Prize since 2000, sometimes dressed in clown costumes. They have also come out in opposition to the Charles Saatchi -patronised Young British Artists . Although painting is the dominant artistic form of Stuckism, artists using other media such as photography, sculpture, film and collage have also joined, and share
595-559: A painting by Joe Machine of two sailors having anal sex, that the paintings might cause controversy, as they were "certainly not ... conventional" but contained "very bold and explicit images". Susan Mansfield in The Scotsman said they were "far from traditional or conservative" and "as shocking as anything Jake and Dinos Chapman could produce", adding "the Stuckists have a strong philosophical base". Simon Pia, another writer in
680-504: A painting of Myra Hindley and was dismissed from her job. Critical reaction to the show ranged from "dreadful" to "the next big thing in art". Sir Nicholas Serota , director of the Tate gallery, visited the show and called it "lively". The Walker deemed it a very successful show and extended the run. In 2005, the Stuckists offered 160 of the paintings as a donation to the Tate gallery. This
765-530: A permanent exhibition of (mainly Welsh) paintings. Mandy McCartin is a regular guest artist. In 2010, Paul Harvey's painting of Charles Saatchi was banned from the window display of the Artspace Gallery in Maddox Street , London, on the grounds that it was "too controversial for the area". It was the centrepiece of the show, Stuckist Clowns Doing Their Dirty Work , the first exhibition of
850-557: A show of the original paintings used for the posters, was promoted at the Wanted Gallery in Notting Hill by Fraser Kee Scott , director of the A Gallery . In 2009, his painting of Charles Saatchi was banned from the window display of the Artspace Gallery in Maddox Street , London, on the grounds that it was "too controversial for the area". It was the centrepiece of the show, Stuckist Clowns Doing Their Dirty Work ,
935-521: Is a matter only for her and the newspaper." There was a very diverse reaction to the show. Adrian Searle , art critic of The Guardian called it "dreadful" and Tate Chairman, Paul Myners denounced it as "a travesty". " Young British Artist " Gavin Turk advised in a BBC interview that people should try to see the show. The sexual and violent content of some of the paintings was commented on. Mark Lawson on BBC Radio 4 warned, with particular reference to
SECTION 10
#17328011170521020-434: Is also a Stuckist artist, was sacked by the paper after exhibiting her painting If We Could Undo Psychosis 2 in the show. The painting shows a family group of mother and two children with child-killer Myra Hindley substituted for the father and holding a teddy bear. Thomson said, "It is not glorifying Myra Hindley, it's called psychosis—can anyone ever be healed is the question posed by this painting." Kelly's sacking
1105-415: Is an analysis of a BBC2 Newsnight programme on 19 October 1999 hosted by Jeremy Paxman with Charles Thomson attacking that year's Turner Prize and artist Brad Lochore defending it. Thomson was displaying Stuckist paintings, while Lochore had brought along a plastic detergent bottle on a cardboard plinth. At one stage Lochore states, "if people say it's art, it's art". Paxman asks, "So you can say anything
1190-445: Is an international art movement founded in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figurative painting as opposed to conceptual art . By May 2017, the initial group of 13 British artists had expanded to 236 groups in 52 countries. Childish and Thomson have issued several manifestos. The first one was The Stuckists , consisting of 20 points starting with "Stuckism is a quest for authenticity ". Remodernism ,
1275-452: Is art?" and Lochore replies, "You could say everything is art..." At this point Thomson, off-screen, can be heard to say, "Is my shoe art?" while at the same time his shoe appears in front of Lochore, who observes, "If you say it is. I have to judge it on those terms." Thomson's response is, "I've never heard anything so ludicrous in my life before." Part three describes the Stuckists' line of argument as "devastating in its capacity to demolish
1360-642: Is one of the best known paintings to come out of the Stuckist movement, and as Jane Morris wrote in The Guardian it's a likely "signature piece" for the movement, standing for its opposition to conceptual art. Painted in 2000, the piece has been exhibited in later Stuckist shows, and featured on placards in Stuckist demonstrations against the Turner Prize. It depicts Sir Nicholas Serota, Director of
1445-662: Is that "the Stuckist allows him/herself uncensored expression", but The Tehran Stuckists' exhibitions in Iran are censored and they are not allowed to exhibit some of their artworks in Iranian galleries. The group has also participated in Stuckist exhibitions in Britain, Lithuania and Spain. Other Asian Stuckists are Shelley Li (China), Smeetha Boumik (India), Joko Apridinoto (Indonesia), Elio Yuri Figini (Japan) and Fady Chamaa (Lebanon). The Prague Stuckists were founded in 2005 in
1530-591: Is that it is a direct equivalent of the conformist, unoriginal establishment that Duchamp attacked in the first place". Manifestos have been written by other Stuckists, including the Students for Stuckism group. An "Underage Stuckists" group was founded in 2006 with a manifesto for teenagers written by two 16-year-olds, Liv Soul and Rebekah Maybury, on MySpace . In 2009, a group calling itself The Other Muswell Hill Stuckists published The Founding, Manifesto and Rules of The Other Muswell Hill Stuckists . In July 1999,
1615-1101: The Charity Commission censured the Tate and ruled that it had broken the law in making the purchase and similar trustee purchases during the previous 50 years. The Daily Telegraph called the verdict "one of the most serious indictments of the running of one of the nation's major cultural institutions in living memory." Philip Absolon , Frances Castle, Elsa Dax , Eamon Everall , Ella Guru , Paul Harvey , Wolf Howard , Bill Lewis , Joe Machine , Peter McArdle , Mandy McCartin , Sexton Ming , Charles Thomson , Charles Williams Stephen Coots, David John Beesley, Dan Belton, John Bourne , Jonathon Coudrille , Michelle England, Stephen Howarth , Naive John , Rachel Jordan , Jane Kelly , Emily Mann , Daniel Pincham-Phipps, Matthew Robinson, Mary von Stockhausen. Godfrey Blow , J Todd Dockery, Brett Hamil, Tony Juliano, ZF Lively, Terry Marks , Jesse Richards Andy Bullock, Larry Dunstan, Wolf Howard , Charles Thomson Stuckist Stuckism ( / ˈ s t ʌ k ɪ z əm / )
1700-462: The Go West exhibition at Spectrum London gallery. In 2007, he was in the show, I Won't Have Sex with You as Long as We're Married , at the A Gallery . In 2008, he was commissioned by Job cigarette papers to create a set of campaign posters with a stylistic reference to Alphonse Mucha , who had created earlier paintings for the firm. Harvey made works featuring famous double acts to emphasise
1785-610: The Remodernism manifesto, the Stuckists declared that they aimed to replace postmodernism with remodernism, a period of renewed spiritual (as opposed to religious) values in art, culture and society. Other manifestos have included Handy Hints , Anti-anti-art , The Cappuccino writer and the Idiocy of Contemporary Writing , The Turner Prize , The Decreptitude of the Critic and Stuckist critique of Damien Hirst . In Anti-anti-art ,
SECTION 20
#17328011170521870-536: The Turner Prize , two artists ( Ella Guru and Sexton Ming ) getting married in drag, and Stella Vine in the Vote Stuckist show in 2001. The book also includes two Stuckist manifestos, biographies of the artists, a section on Stuckist photographers, and two essays, "A Stuckist on Stuckism" by group co-founder, Charles Thomson and "Manifestos From the Edge and Beyond" by art historian Paul O'Keefe . The book
1955-457: The Walker Art Gallery for the 2004 Liverpool Biennial . His painting of artist and model Emily Mann was used to promote the show. The painting was based on a photograph of Mann by Charles Thomson and was originally intended to promote the Stuckists Real Turner Prize Show 2003 : at that time the placard contained the text, " Serota needs a good spanking". However, according to Harvey, another artist Gina Bold "got really angry and started
2040-759: The White Cube Gallery. In 2004 outside the launch of The Triumph of Painting at the Saatchi Gallery they wore tall hats with Charles Saatchi's face emblazoned and carried placards claiming that Saatchi had copied their ideas. Events outside Britain have included The Clown Trial of President Bush held in New Haven in 2003 to protest against the Iraq War . Michael Dickinson has exhibited political and satirical collages in Turkey for which he
2125-626: The Czech Republic by Robert Janás , Other Stuckist artists in Europe include Peter Klint (Germany), Michael Dickinson (Turkey), Odysseus Yakoumakis (Greece), Artista Eli (Spain), Kloot Per W (Belgium), Jaroslav Valečka (Czech Republic), Jiří Hauschka (Czech Republic), Markéta Korečková (Czech Republic), Ján Macko (Slovakia) and Pavel Lefterov (Bulgaria). In October 2000, Regan Tamanui founded The Melbourne Stuckists in Melbourne,
2210-653: The Liverpool Biennial. The programme was led by Naive John , founder of the Liverpool Stuckists. There was an accompanying exhibition in the 68 Hope Gallery at Liverpool School of Art and Design (John Moores University Gallery). By 2006, there were 63 Stuckist groups in the UK. Members include Naive John, Mark D , Elsa Dax , Paul Harvey , Jane Kelly , Udaiyan , Peter McArdle , Peter Murphy , Rachel Jordan , Guy Denning and Abby Jackson . John Bourne opened Stuckism Wales at his home,
2295-478: The Stuckist détournement", visiting the Punk Victorian show and conversing with members before rejecting an offered donation of their work as not of "sufficient quality in terms of accomplishment, innovation or originality of thought to warrant preservation in perpetuity in the national collection" The BBC arts correspondent Lawrence Pollard wrote in 2009 that the way was paved for "cultural agitators" like
2380-520: The Stuckist opposition to conceptualism and "ego-art." The name "Stuckism" was coined in January 1999 by Charles Thomson in response to a poem read to him several times by Billy Childish . In it, Childish recites that his former girlfriend, Tracey Emin had said he was "stuck! stuck! stuck!" with his art, poetry and music. Later that month, Thomson approached Childish with a view to co-founding an art group called Stuckism, which Childish agreed to, on
2465-415: The Stuckists as "enemies of art", and what they say as "cheap slogans" and "hysterical rants". The artist Max Podstolski wrote that the art world needed a new manifesto, as confrontational as that of Futurism or Dadaism , "written with a heart-felt passion capable of inspiring and rallying art world outsiders, dissenters, rebels, the neglected and disaffected", and suggests that "Well now we've got it, in
2550-584: The Stuckists held an exhibition at A Gallery , I Won't Have Sex with You as long as We're Married , titled after words apparently said to Thomson by his ex-wife, Stella Vine on their wedding night. The show coincided with the opening of Vine's major show at Modern Art Oxford and was prompted by Thomson's anger that the material promoting her show did not mention her time with the Stuckists. Tate chairman Paul Myners visited both shows. As Charlotte Cripps of The Independent wrote, Charles Thomson's painting Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision
2635-456: The Stuckists in Mayfair , and depicted Saatchi with a sheep at his feet and a halo made from a cheese wrapper. The Saatchi Gallery said that Saatchi "would not have any problem" with the painting's display. The gallery announced they were shutting down the show. Harvey said, "I did it to make Saatchi look friendly and human. It's a ludicrous decision". The Stuckists protested with emails to
The Stuckists Punk Victorian - Misplaced Pages Continue
2720-407: The Stuckists outlined their opposition to what is known as " anti-art ". Stuckists claim that conceptual art is justified by the work of Marcel Duchamp , but that Duchamp's work is "anti-art by intent and effect". The Stuckists feel that "Duchamp's work was a protest against the stale, unthinking artistic establishment of his day", while "the great (but wholly unintentional) irony of postmodernism
2805-767: The Stuckists were first mentioned in the media, in an article in The Evening Standard and soon gained other coverage, helped by press interest in Tracey Emin, who had been nominated for the Turner Prize . The first Stuckist show was Stuck! Stuck! Stuck! in September 1999 in Joe Crompton's in Shoreditch Gallery 108 (now defunct), followed by The Resignation of Sir Nicholas Serota . In 2000, they staged The Real Turner Prize Show at
2890-518: The Stuckists' first exhibition in central London had brought "multiple sales" for leading artists of the movement, and that this raised the question of how good they were at painting. He observed that "Whatever the critics may say, buyers from the UK, the US and Japan have already taken a punt. Six of Thomson's paintings have sold for between £4,000 and £5,000 each. Joe Machine, a former prisoner who paints for therapeutic reasons, has also sold six paintings for
2975-470: The Stuckists, and the marriage had ended. In February 2004, Charles Saatchi bought a painting of Diana, Princess of Wales , by Vine and was credited with "discovering" her. Thomson said it was the Stuckists and not Saatchi who had discovered her. At the end of March 2004, Thomson made a formal complaint about Saatchi to the Office of Fair Trading, claiming that Saatchi's leading position was monopolistic "to
3060-617: The Stuckists, as well as the Vorticists , Surrealists and others, by the Futurist Manifesto of 20 February 1909. Some UK Stuckist artists' work: Paul Harvey (artist) Paul Arthur Harvey (born 7 May 1960) is a British musician and Stuckist artist, whose work was used to promote the Stuckists' 2004 show at the Liverpool Biennial . His paintings draw on pop art and the work of Alphonse Mucha , and often depict celebrities, including Madonna . Paul Harvey
3145-937: The Tate Gallery and the usual chairman of the Turner Prize jury, and satirises Young British Artist Tracey Emin's installation, My Bed , consisting of her bed and objects, including knickers , which she exhibited in 1999 as a Turner Prize nominee. In 2000, Regan Tamanui started the first Stuckist group outside Britain in Melbourne, Australia, and it was decided that other artists should be free to start their own groups also, named after their locality. Stuckism has since grown into an international art movement of 233 groups in 52 countries, as of July 2012. Mafa Bamba founded The Abidgan Stuckists in 2001 in Ivory Coast and Kari Seid founded The Cape Town Stuckists in 2008 in South Africa. In 2000, Susan Constanse founded
3230-479: The Tate Gallery's Turner Prize. Cai had written, among other things, the words "Anti Stuckism" on his bare back as the two jumped on the bed and performed a pillow fight. Fiachra Gibbons of The Guardian wrote (in 1999) that the event "will go down in art history as the defining moment of the new and previously unheard of Anti-Stuckist Movement." Writing in The Guardian ten years later, Jonathan Jones described
3315-421: The UK but also with a representation of international Stuckist artists from the US, Germany and Australia. There was an accompanying exhibition of Stuckist photographers. A book, The Stuckists Punk Victorian , was published to accompany the exhibition. Daily Mail journalist Jane Kelly exhibited a painting of Myra Hindley in the show, which may have been the cause of her dismissal from her job. In July 2007,
3400-580: The US, Germany and Australia. There was also a smaller accompanying exhibition of the Stuckist Photographers . A book, The Stuckists Punk Victorian , was published to accompany the exhibition. Six fringe shows, created in association with the event, took place internationally. Some of the work was compared with the "shocking" work of YBAs , Jake and Dinos Chapman . The gallery posted a warning notice of some "sexual and violent" subject matter. Daily Mail journalist, Jane Kelly , exhibited
3485-487: The Walker show because of their objection, as well as a painting Charity Work by Philip Absolon which had also been excluded. The Scotsman reported that Stella Vine had threatened to commit suicide if her work was in the Stuckist show. Sir Nicholas Serota was dubbed the "least likely visitor" to the show, which included a wall of work satirising the Tate and Serota himself, such as Thomson's Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision . In fact, he did visit and met
The Stuckists Punk Victorian - Misplaced Pages Continue
3570-447: The Walker, one of the outstanding collections of fine art in Europe and part of National Museums Liverpool." Thomson said, "The Tate ... rejected Modernism and artists such as Matisse and Picasso ... Now it has lost the nation the prime works of an international movement founded in Britain. A direct consequence of this was a media campaign Thomson led over the Tate 's purchase of its trustee Chris Ofili 's work, The Upper Room . In 2006
3655-568: The amount of irony present, though the artist has claimed that he does not intend this. Possibly his best-known work is a painting of the singer Madonna . The elements mentioned are clearly visible, with small dumbbells around the border, for example Madonna, contrasting with Art Nouveau curves and languidity. He has described his work as strong line defining flat areas of colour, "dealing with ideas of beauty and decoration" and often appropriating images from art history and popular culture. He describes his methodology: "I use photographs but change
3740-518: The artists, describing the work as "lively". In 2005, the Stuckists offered a donation of 160 paintings from the show with a value of £500,000 to the Tate. This offer was rejected by Serota, who wrote, "the works in question have been reviewed by our curators and presented to the Board of Trustees ... We do not feel that the work is of sufficient quality in terms of accomplishment, innovation or originality of thought to warrant preservation in perpetuity in
3825-408: The basis that Thomson would do the work for the group, as Childish already had a full schedule. There were eleven other founding members: Philip Absolon , Frances Castle, Sheila Clark, Eamon Everall , Ella Guru , Wolf Howard , Bill Lewis , Sanchia Lewis, Joe Machine , Sexton Ming , and Charles Williams . The membership has evolved since its founding through creative collaborations: the group
3910-547: The detriment of smaller competitors", citing Vine as an example of this. On 15 April, the OFT closed the file on the case on the basis that Saatchi was not "in a dominant position in any relevant market." A short time after the 1999 exhibition of My Bed and the Stuckists' response with Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision , a pair of performance artists named Yuan Cai and Jian Jun Xi performed an art intervention titled Two Naked Men Jump into Tracey's Bed at
3995-634: The end of May 2001, she exhibited some of her paintings publicly for the first time in the Vote Stuckist show in Brixton, and formed The Westminster Stuckists group. On 4 June, she took part in a Stuckist demonstration in Trafalgar Square . By 10 July, she had renamed her group The Unstuckists. In mid-August, Thomson and Vine married. A work by her was shown in the Stuckist show in Paris, which ended in mid-November, by which time she had rejected
4080-511: The first Pakistani Stuckist group, The Karachi Stuckists , in 2005. At the end of 2009 he was thinking of expanding The Karachi Stuckists with new members, but on 15 January 2010 he committed suicide. In 2011, Sheherbano Husain restarted the group. The Tehran Stuckists is an Iranian Stuckist, Remodernist and anti-anti-art group of painters founded in 2007 in Tehran , which is a major protagonist of Asian Stuckism. In April 2010 they curated
4165-562: The first Stuckist exhibition in Iran, Tehran Stuckists: Searching for the Unlimited Potentials of Figurative Painting , at Iran Artists Forum, Mirmiran Gallery. Their second exhibition, International Stuckists: Painters Out of Order , including paintings by Stuckists from Iran, Britain, USA, Spain, South Africa, Pakistan and Turkey was held at Day Gallery in November 2013. Although one of the main aspects of Stuckism movement
4250-977: The first U.S. group The Pittsburgh Stuckists in Pittsburgh —the second group to be founded outside the UK. This was announced in the In Pittsburgh Weekly , 1 November 2000: "The new word in art is Stuckism. A Stuckist paints their life, mind and soul with no pretensions and no excuses." By 2011, there were 44 U.S. Stuckist groups. There have been Stuckist shows and demonstrations in the U.S., and American Stuckists have also exhibited in international Stuckist shows abroad. U.S. Stuckists include Ron Throop, Jeffrey Scott Holland , Frank Kozik and Terry Marks . There are also 4 Stuckist groups in Canada including The White Rock Stuckists in British Columbia founded by David Wilson. Asim Butt founded
4335-478: The first exhibition of the Stuckists in Mayfair , and showed Saatchi with a sheep at his feet and a halo made from a cheese wrapper. The Saatchi Gallery said that Saatchi "would not have any problem" with the painting's display. The gallery announced they were shutting down the show. Harvey said: The Stuckists considered legal action, and co-ordinated, on the event's Facebook page, a campaign of emails to
SECTION 50
#17328011170524420-470: The first national exhibition by the Stuckist Photographers . A 144-page book was published by National Museums Liverpool to accompany the show with 150 colour illustrations, including work by all the artists, as well as photographs showing the history of the group. A photograph from 1987 shows some of the group members in an earlier form as The Medway Poets , at which time Tracey Emin was associated with them. Other photographs are of demonstrations outside
4505-605: The form of Stuckism". New York art gallery owner Edward Winkleman wrote in 2006 that he had never heard of the Stuckists, so he "looked them up on Misplaced Pages", and stated he was "turned off by their anti-conceptual stance, not to mention the inanity of their statement about painting, but I'm more than a bit interested in the democratization their movement represents." Thomson responded to Winkleman directly. Also in 2006, Colin Gleadell, writing in The Telegraph , noted that
4590-943: The fourth Stuckist group to be started and the first one outside the UK. On 27 October 2000, he staged the Real Turner Prize Show at the Dead End Gallery in his home, concurrent with three shows with the same title in England (London, Falmouth and Dartington ) and one in Germany in protest against the Tate Gallery's Turner Prize. Other Australian Stuckists include Godfrey Blow , who exhibited in The Stuckists Punk Victorian . In 2005 Mike Mayhew also founded The Christchurch Stuckists in New Zealand. Co-founder Billy Childish left
4675-583: The gallery for acting outside its legal powers. Sir Nicholas Serota stated that the Stuckists had "acted in the public interest". In October 2006, the Stuckists staged their first exhibition, Go West , in a commercial West End gallery, Spectrum London , signalling their entry as "major players" in the art world. An international symposium on Stuckism took place in October 2006 at the Liverpool John Moores University during
4760-579: The gallery, which agreed to exhibit the painting in the window and to continue the show. In October 2011, Harvey was awarded a PhD on Stuckism at Northumbria University . As of 2020, Harvey teaches Art & Design at Queen Alexandra Sixth Form College in North Shields. His images are often derived from pictures of film and singing "stars" in magazines, and reworked into a new context. His style references pop art and Alfons Mucha . The incorporation of modern symbols poses an ambiguity as to
4845-494: The gallery. Subsequently, the painting was reinstated and the show continued. The Stuckists gained significant media coverage for eight years of protests (2000–2006 and 2008) outside Tate Britain against the Turner Prize, sometimes dressed as clowns. In 2001, they demonstrated in Trafalgar Square at the unveiling of Rachel Whiteread 's Monument . In 2002, they carried a coffin marked The Death of Conceptual Art to
4930-926: The group at the Wednesbury Museum in 2003. 2003–2005, he gained an MA in Fine Art Practice at the University of Northumbria . In 2004, he was the Stuckist co-curator with Hiroko Oshima of the Ryu Art Group of the show, Members Only: the Artist Group in Japan and Britain , which took place at the Bailiffgate Museum , Alnwick . He was a featured artist in The Stuckists Punk Victorian show at
5015-703: The group in 2001, but has stated that he remains committed to its principles. Sexton Ming left to concentrate on a solo career with the Aquarium Gallery . Wolf Howard left in 2006, but has exhibited with the group since. Jesse Richards who ran the Stuckism Centre USA in New Haven, left the group in 2006 to focus on Remodernist film . In June 2000, Stella Vine went to a talk given by Childish and Thomson on Stuckism and Remodernism in London. At
5100-416: The group in context in a wider historical view with a proposition that the development of Modernism has been a "story of fragmentation" and that it is necessary to provide a holistic approach. A passage by Eamon Everall is quoted to explain Stuckist art: The Stuckists as a group are not wedded to some formulaic and often stultifying notion of what a painting should look like, as in past movements. For them
5185-416: The homegrown radical movement, the Vorticists and how they clashed on one occasion, using brass knuckledusters, with rival avant-garde group the Italian Futurists . He includes Royal Academy President, Alfred Munnings ', notorious 1949 speech, wanting to kick Picasso . He traces the evolution of radicalism into the new establishment, setting the scene for the Stuckist challenge to it. The second section
SECTION 60
#17328011170525270-402: The installation of Rachel Whiteread 's sculpture Monument . It then traces the history of the group from origins in 1979 to its foundation in 1999, reviews "A Dysfunctional Decade of Saatchi Art", describes Stuckist demonstrations at the Turner Prize and gives background on artists who have left the Stuckists—co-founder Billy Childish , Stella Vine and Gina Bold . A final section puts
5355-432: The national collection." The Times reported: The Tate was accused yesterday of snubbing one of Britain’s foremost collections after it rejected a gift of 160 paintings that had been given pride of place at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Its director, Sir Nicholas Serota, said that the works did not deserve to be in a national collection, even though their five-month exhibition last autumn drew thousands of people to
5440-407: The other well-known manifesto of the movement, opposes the deconstruction and irony of postmodernism in favor of what Stuckists refer to as the "spirituality" of the artist. In another manifesto they define themselves as anti-anti-art which is against anti-art and for what they consider conventional art. After exhibiting in small galleries in Shoreditch , London, the Stuckists' first show in
5525-405: The painting was not used and the show was cancelled. Some months later the placard was repainted to promote the Walker show. The main figure is based on a photograph of the model, musician and DJ Emily Mann , taken by Charles Thomson. Thomson's essay starts with an account of a confrontation with Sir Nicholas Serota in Trafalgar Square in 2001 on the occasion of a Stuckist demonstration against
5610-427: The pretensions of Conceptualism" and cites Damien Hirst 's observation that "The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel" (one of Hirst's assistants). O'Keefe's conclusion remains undecided as to "whether the Momart warehouse blaze indeed represents the funeral pyre of BritArt " and as to the future of Stuckism's role "from its outpost on the edge". Daily Mail feature writer Jane Kelly , who
5695-437: The road to critical acceptance", as did the museum review site 24hourmuseum : ""They’ve spent years fighting the establishment. Now ... the Stuckists have been invited to join it." There were also 6 simultaneous fringe shows: The Rivington Gallery issued a statement from its director, Harold Werner Rubin, that he was showing work from private collections by ex-Stuckists, Stella Vine and Gina Bold , which had been barred from
5780-464: The sales message of "The Original Double", a reference to the twin-size packets of papers made by Job. Harvey's enthusiasm for the project came about because "Mucha is one of his heroes", said Mark Ross, the director of Glorious Creative agency managing the campaign. The work created some controversy: Gilbert and George gave their endorsement to the images, but The Mighty Boosh and The White Stripes were not pleased to be featured. Famous Doubles ,
5865-412: The same paper, predicted the group would be "the next big thing in art". A review in the inflight magazine Velocity evaluated the work as "a worthy argument for painting as the fundamental medium of artistic expression ... a refreshing willingness to be understood in today's world of oblique messages." The Sunday Times saw the presence of the work in an established national museum as "another step on
5950-410: The same price." Paul Vallely defended Sir Nicholas Serota from Stuckist campaigns, criticizing the movement's anti-conceptualism for its association with "forces of social reaction" such as the Daily Mail and upholding Serota as the "greatest single champion of modern art in Britain". Vallely stated that while "I did smile" at Acquisitions Decision , he equally admired Serota's "cool response to
6035-462: The same time as the Tate Gallery 's Turner Prize exhibition. A "Students for Stuckism" group was founded in 2000 by students from Camberwell College of Arts , who staged their own exhibition. S.P. Howarth was expelled from the painting degree course at Camberwell college for his paintings, and had the first solo exhibit at the Stuckism International Gallery in 2002, named I Don't Want a Painting Degree if it Means Not Painting . Thomson stood as
6120-543: The superficial novelty, nihilism and irony of conceptual art and postmodernism . The most contentious statement in the manifesto is: "Artists who don't paint aren't artists". The second and third manifestos, An Open Letter to Sir Nicholas Serota and Remodernism respectively, were sent to the director of the Tate , Nicholas Serota . He sent a brief reply: "Thank you for your open letter dated 6 March. You will not be surprised to learn that I have no comment to make on your letter, or your manifesto 'Remodernism'." In
6205-484: The title A Dead Shark Isn't Art , the gallery exhibited a shark which had first been put on public display in 1989 (two years before Damien Hirst 's) by Eddie Saunders in his Shoreditch shop, JD Electrical Supplies. It was suggested that Hirst may have seen this and copied it. In 2003 they reported Charles Saatchi to the UK Office of Fair Trading , complaining that he had an effective monopoly on art. The complaint
6290-414: The unifying element is not visual: it is their overriding and enduring search for emotional veracity and their concern with the authenticity and honesty of the creative impetus. Paul O'Keefe's essay, Manifestos from the Edge and Beyond , is in three sections. The first treats the history of Modernism in Britain and the scorn that greeted the 1910 Post-Impressionist exhibition. He describes the emergence of
6375-428: Was a local art student and whose girlfriend was a friend of Emin; Thomson also met Everall. During the foundation of the group, Ming brought in his girlfriend, Guru, who in turn invited Castle. In August 1999, Childish and Thomson wrote The Stuckists manifesto which stress the value of painting as a medium, its use for communication, and the expression of emotion and experience – as opposed to what Stuckists see as
6460-567: Was a serving Tate trustee. Fraser Kee Scott, owner of A Gallery , demonstrated with the Stuckists outside the Tate Gallery against the gallery's purchase of The Upper Room . Scott said in The Daily Telegraph that the Tate Gallery's chairman, Paul Myners, was hypocritical for refusing to divulge the price paid. Ofili had asked other artists to donate work to the gallery. In July 2006 the Charity Commission censured
6545-645: Was also a free-standing display of work which satirised the Tate Gallery and the Turner Prize . The Gallery posted a notice: The show was extended from two to five months and the Walker called it "a really, really popular show and very successful." A separate smaller show at the Lady Lever Art Gallery concentrated on the theme of "Art and Artists", including Stuckist interpretations of past work by artists such as Thomas Gainsborough , Frans Hals and Georges Seurat . The gallery also staged
6630-562: Was arrested, and charged, but acquitted of any crime—an outcome which was seen to have positive implications for Turkey's relationship with the European Union . The Stuckists Punk Victorian was the first national gallery exhibition of Stuckist art. It was held at the Walker Art Gallery and Lady Lever Art Gallery and was part of the 2004 Liverpool Biennial. It consisted of over 250 paintings by 37 artists, mostly from
6715-604: Was born in Burton upon Trent , Staffordshire . He attended Burton Grammar School (1971–1978) and North Staffordshire Polytechnic (1978–1982) for Foundation Art and BA (Hons) Design. In 1982, he moved to London and played in post-punk bands including Happy Refugees ; in 1986 he moved to Newcastle to join Pauline Murray 's band. During this time, he co-published-and-drew Mauretania Comics with comics artist Chris Reynolds, and also taught graffiti art . In 2001, he became
6800-566: Was derived from an insult by Tracey Emin . The original group of 13 artists has now grown to an international movement of over 160 groups in 40 countries. Childish left the group in 2001. The main show was in a large gallery at the Walker which normally houses works from the contemporary collection. The paintings were hung in a manner akin to the "salon" style, using the whole height of the wall. "Founder and featured artists" were each given their own space, while representative works from other UK and international artists were grouped accordingly. There
6885-502: Was edited by Frank Milner and designed by March Design, Liverpool. The image on the cover is a painting by Paul Harvey (acrylic on canvas, 212.5 × 75.5 cm), and was originally intended to accompany a previous show, the Stuckists Real Turner Prize Show 2003 , when the placard held by the main figure read "SEROTA NEEDS A GOOD SPANKING". Due to an argument between Harvey and another artist, Gina Bold ,
6970-407: Was not upheld. In 2003, an allied group, Stuckism Photography , was founded by Larry Dunstan and Andy Bullock. In 2005 the Stuckists offered a donation of 175 paintings from the Walker show to the Tate, but it was rejected by the Tate's trustees. In August 2005, Thomson alerted the press to the fact that the Tate had purchased a work by Chris Ofili , The Upper Room , for £705,000 while the artist
7055-431: Was originally promoted as working in paint, but members have since worked in various other media, including poetry, fiction, performance, photography, film and music. In 1979, Thomson, Childish, Bill Lewis and Ming were members of The Medway Poets performance group, to which Absolon and Sanchia Lewis had earlier contributed. Peter Waite's Rochester Pottery staged a series of solo painting shows. In 1982, TVS broadcast
7140-513: Was reported on the front page of The Guardian , which described how the Daily Mail had welcomed a previous work by Kelly showing London Mayor Ken Livingstone in the context of the 1944 Stauffenberg plot against Hitler , and commented: The Daily Mail' s managing editor, Lawrence Sear, who dismissed Kelly, described as "unmitigated rubbish" the claim that the loss of her job was related to her artwork and that "the departure of Jane Kelly
7225-403: Was turned down by Serota on the grounds that the work was not of "sufficient quality". The rejection stimulated a campaign by the group over purchases of trustee work by the Tate. These purchases were subsequently censured by the Charity Commission . The Stuckists were founded in 1999 by Charles Thomson and Billy Childish to promote figurative painting and oppose conceptual art . The name
#51948