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Michael Dickinson

"Last week, Turkey was identified as the worst violator of the European convention on human rights between 1959 and 2009. According to figures released by the European court of human rights, the country accounted for almost 19% of all violations, with 2,295 judgements issued against it. Turkey also had the highest proportion of violations in 2009, making up 347 out of 1,625 negative rulings. The most common violation was the denial of the right to a fair trial. Turkey also had 30 rulings against it following complaints of inhumane or degrading treatment." - The Guardian (31.1.10)

Michael Dickinson , Stuckist artist, guilty of insulting the Turkish prime minister with a collage, says judge. He refuses to pay any fine and faces up to two years in jail : BBC report (27.1.10).

Also Hurriyet, The Journal (with Amnesty International quote), and Press Association report in The Scotsman, Abroath Herald, Sunderland Echo and The Star (S. Yorkshire). Blogs: Art in Liverpool (28.1.10), Durham Times + photo (29.1.10). Blogs: Guncel Meydan (31.1.10), Andrew Finkel in Today's Zaman (2.2.10).

Michael Dickinson emailed us:

"Supposed to start at 11.20, my hearing was delayed for two hours as the judge went through cases before mine. It was the same rigmarole more or less, although my lawyer, Volkan, put up an impassioned speech for freedom of expression. The judge asked if I had anything to say before he gave his verdict. I couldn't think of anything to say except 'Biktim' ('I'm bored/fed up with this.')

Just before the judge was about to pass sentence Volkan explained to him that if he had decided to punish me with a money fine, I had decided not to pay one as a protest against this law against freedom of expression. The judge called for a 10 minute break while he considered the situation.

After we had come back from the recess, a last paragraph of the preceding record of what had been said was deleted. The judge gave his decision. I had gone too far with the imagery in my collage, he said, and particularly by showing it in public.

He did consider it an 'insult to the Prime Minister' and had decided to punish me, but was witholding his official verdict and sentence: he was going to adjourn the case for a final trial on March 9th at 2pm in order to give me time to reflect and review my defence. I deserved to be punished, and if I refuse to pay a fine I will be sent to prison, possibly for 2 years.

No sum of money was mentioned for the fine, but I will not pay, no matter how small it might be."

Earlier coverage in Northern Echo (26.1.10), and Press Association story (27.1.10) in Google News , Belfast Telegraph, AOL, Dundalk Argus, Virgin Media , Independent (Ireland), Daily Express and Channel 4.

Read Michael Dickinson's article in Counterpunch (22.1.10)

Istanbul is the 2010 European Capital of Culture.

Good Boy - Michael Dickinson's collage of Turkish PM, Tayyip Erdogan
See the new updated Good Boy 2 on Michael's web site

Interview in The Leader (Wrexham) 12.1.10. with Ana Ribeiro of Wrexham Stuckists.
See also photos of Ana at the 2009 Turner Demo here.

Billy Childish, co-founder of the Stuckists in 1999 (he left in 2001)
on BBC Radio 4 Midweek, 30.12.09. Listen again here.
Stuckists mentioned: 00.30, 01.02 and 16.18.
Libby Purves: "The Stuckists who defied the fashion for conceptual and craftless art"

Charles Thomson's predictions for 2010 on Spoonfed 22.12.09
M.E. Murphy changes artistic direction through Stuckism. Read it here 22.12.09

Reuters video of the Stuckist Turner demo of 5.10.09 here - next demo on Turner Prize day, Mon 7 Dec at Tate Britain.

Spanish Hartista Stuckists one year anniversary paint demo

Turner Prize judge, Jonathan Jones: "The Stuckists are enemies of art", The Guardian, 2.10.09.

New article on Turner Prize with Stuckists in New Europe, 18.10.09

Ebay Stuckist painting bargains from Edgeworth Johnstone and Daniel Pincham-Phipps. Search all Stuckists items.

"The Stuckists are a group of postmodern figurative painters who hate mainstream postmodernist art, but whose reaction against it also falls within postmodernism." Momus 13.10.08

Jesse Richards writes on Remodernist Film in Mungbeing (Oct 2009).

Jonathan Jones blogs on anti-art and Stuckism in The Guardian 29.9.09.