STUCKISM ANGELA EDWARDS
a.k.a Cinderella
Snow White Smith
Angela Edwards founded the Notting Hill Stuckists in 2006
but has now disassociated herself from Stuckism and founded "Shitism" Statement,
biography & links
TRANSFIGURATION
OF ABUSE
POST THATCHERIST BRITAIN
VIOLATION OF WESTERN CIVILISATION
Statement
My
paintings often explore hard-hitting topics, which I have had
previous experience of in a decadent life as a trouble-making
trollop, such as the conflict between feminism and the expression
of sexual freedom as a woman, class issues such as middle class
hypocrisy, poverty in Britain today, rape, unrequited love,
violence, violation, drug addiction, Soho low life, homelessness,
despair.
Through
my art I often encapsulate my own private moments and hope to
use painting as a form of attack to change certain unequal aspects
of society and to educate. My style is influenced by edgy street
graffiti art, Dubuffet, Banksy, the rawness of punk rock music
and 50 Cent, the fuck you attitude of Billy Childish and Charles
Thomson, conceptual art such as the blatant raunchiness of the
Chapman Brothers, the feminist ideals of Sarah Lucas, and the
ability to use personal harsh experiences openly such as Tracey
Emin.
Biography
Angela
Edwards came to London from Leyland in Lancashire age 15 with
a suitcase and £50, after a disruptive childhood in the
social care system. In London she experienced homelessness,
drug addiction and intravenous use of class A drugs, hostessing
in clip joints, begging and shoplifting. Five years ago she
went completely clean and has dedicated herself since to her
painting, writing, poetry and acting. In 2006 her essay Will
a whole generation’s freedom of speech and artwork produced
by the lower or working class sector of British society be erased
from our history in a Bourgeoisie attempt to cleanse British
society's popular culture to represent only the rich or socially
unaffected? was published on the Saatchi Gallery web site.
She was invited to be one of the initial seven artists to go
live on the Saatchi Your Gallery site. She currently lives and
works in Notting Hill Gate. She frequently exhibits her work
in pubs and other local venues.
Essay
Read
Angela Edwards'
essay online at the Saatchi Gallery:
"I came across a group named the Stuckists I did not agree
with their stance on conceptionlist art but the fact that one
had been a bank robber and another a fetish dominatrix gave
me hope that perhaps this group of degenerates would accept
my past no questions asked ...The stuckists did say I had all
the right credentials for their radical group"
Press
Angela
Edwards had a large show of work in Slough in June 2008 at Gallery
435. See "sex art show" controversy in the Slough
Observer, 20.6.08.
