Material which was on the home page.

 

Michael Dickinson, Stuckist collage artist, died on 2 July 2020. Article in Camden New Journal (24.7.20) - Stuckist page on the Turkish controversy Collage site Yabanji - Article on Wikipedia - on Mungbeing

Michael Dickinson (left) with his controversial collage (right) Best in Show, which resulted
in jail in Turkey.

Read articles on Counterpunch.org
by Michael Dickinson and Charles Thomson

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Stuckats online show here and a selection of writing here
STILL AVAILABLE TO VIEW

Are you "interested in artificial intelligence and how it can help create new forms of art? Are you interested in topics like Generative Adversarial Networks?" A data scientist has been in touch about this for possible collaboration.
If you're interested, email stuckism@yahoo.co.uk

NOT SO NEW NEWS

Something to read during lockdown. Vent your spleen against conceptual art with "Killing the Emperors" by Ruth Dudley Edwards, a murder fiction, which cites the Stuckists heavily. Cheapest is hardback on Amazon, also available via abebooks. Review of the book on The Salisbury Review (Spring 2013). Go to page 51.

Is Margate the new art hub of the UK? inews.co.uk (20.6.19))

"After Postmodernism - Remodernism" by Brendan Graham Dempsey
(4.2.20). Video here.

"Convention of Modernity in Stuckism Art" - Journal of University of Babylon for Humanities, Iraq, VOL 27 NO 4 (2019). View here. Download article (in Arabic) here.

Intelligent, in-depth and well researched discussion of the Stuckist manifesto by Philip Klay and Jacob Siegel, joined by Alex Brook Lynn, on Manfiesto! (15.12.19): https://manifesto.fireside.fm/19

"Possibly the best-known recent example of an artistic manifesto in the digital age is that of The Stuckists" - Mitch at Pencil Kings here (4.4.14)

Edward Lucie-Smith on the Stuckists at Cerna labut gallery, Prague:
artlyst.com (2.4.18)

 

THE STUCKISTS AT CASS ART ISLINGTON The show has ended. See details and images at: www.stuckism.com/Shows/Index2017Cass.html

 

 

STUCKISM is a new entry in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED Third Edition, March 2017). Read it at www.oed.com/view/Entry/40243474t NB May require log in. (click "show more" by etymology for origin of Stuckism)

It’s Still Not Too Late to Deserve Your CBE, Chris Ofili - by Charles Thomson. Counterpunch (21.4.17) Also in print in The Jackdaw magazine.

 

Lies, Damned Lies and Serota at the BBC here
(Counterpunch 4.11.16) Also in print in The Jackdaw

Stuckist artist Annie Zamero in right royal bust-up London Evening Standard (14.11.16)

Terry Marks, NY Stuckist interviewed on Tall Tale Radio (29.8.16) Terry Marks website
Ceramicist Liz Crain on Stuckism + Modernism diagram here (17.11.16)

Ron Throop of USA on his collaboration with the Russian Stuckists here.
Moscow Stuckist show featured on State Hermitage Museum
Facebook page (1.11.16)

The Face of Stuckism portraits of Stuckist artists by Eamon Everall The video: watch it here

TURNER PRIZE 2016
Art Clown of the Year Award to Jeremy Deller and Sir Nicholas Serota
Read all about it here

Sign the Turner Prize petition here.

Godfrey Blow Stuckist Royal artist in Australia: Yahoo news (15.3.16)

Charles Thomson on the Stuckists manifesto, Billy Childish
and various disagreements - AMFM Magazine (2.12.16)

BBC Radio 4. 2.15 pm, 11 March 2016 Burn Baby Burn - Sean Grundy's satirical drama inspired by the Momart warehouse fire. (Named characters played by actors.) Excerpt below starts at 14:49. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b072n8f7 Brian Sewell: I thought it would be you, Hirst. Damien Hirst: It's an outrage to suggest I stole my ideas. That's not a real flashback. It's a fiction. Brian Sewell: It's playful - in the spirit of Britart's recontextualisation. Is it any more preposterous than claims by Charles Thomson of the Stuckist movement, who said you'd copied Thomas Downing's spot paintings from the sixties, Joseph Cornells's medicine cabinets from 1943, John LeKay's crucified lamb carcasses, Lori Precious's butterflies.... More on Hirst's stealing art here

Charles Thomson discusses Andy Warhol on BBC Radio Scotland - Good Morning Scotland (29.8.15). Listen on iPlayer . Discussion starts at 01:39:55

Stuckism Russia - the Moscow show. Video here.

Billy Childish comes of age in Post Magazine (6.4.15)

Charles Thomson on Tate BP PR in tatters: Counterpunch (3.3.15)

Richard Bledsoe on Bill Lewis and the Cosmic Unconsciousness Remodern Review (1.3.15)

Frank Black of The Catholics (aka Charles Thompson of The Pixies) on Stuckism, music and painting Pledge Music (16.1.15)

Stuckist manifesto on the Royal Academy site [no. 9] (10.4.15)

Art Now and Then article on Jane Kelly here (16.11.14)

"the world’s most vocal champion of figurative painting"
Charles Thomson interviewed by Mark Sheerin in Hyperallergic (10.19.14)

See hit painting Saatchi and Saatchi by Darren Udaiyan

Stuckism 15 year anniversary feature in Mungbeing magazine

Challenging concepts of art is one of the specialities of this bunch – the Stuckists" - Culture24

"a significant part of the British art scene" - Jonathan Jones, The Guardian

Eamon Everall on his art at Pugmire's Pizza Party Art evening

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Alexis Hunter died on 24 February 2014 of motor neurone disease. Here she talks about the Turner Prize during a Stuckist demo outside Tate Britain in 2010. Obituary in The Guardian, 11.3.14. Letter in The Guardian about Alexis and Stuckists, 18.3.14. Alexis Hunter work "Approach to Fear" installed as a memorial 12-22 March 2014, Gallery 90 (top of Manton Stairs), Tate Britain.

STUCKISM: 15 YEARS
See the feature on Stuckism in Mungbeing

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Michael Dickinson, prosecuted in Turkey, sleeps in a box, stars as Dick Cheney article in The Big Issue (31.1.14)

Damien Hirst doesn't plagiarise - he just imitates, says Melvyn Bragg. See Counterpunch (31.1.14)
Melvyn Bragg thinks Damien Hirst's plagiarism is OK. Stuckist response - Evening Standard (27.1.14)
BBC1 The One Show (22.1.14) interviewed Stuckist Charles Thomson on Damien Hirst plagiarism

Tate trustee cronysim - Tomma Abts in Painting Now show.
See Daily Mail (2nd item) (3.1.14) and Telegraph (3.1.14)
0 visitors in Tate gallery show, Painting Now. See Counterpunch (13.12.13)

Charles Thomson, of Stuckists, which promotes traditional art, said: “If this stuff was auctioned on eBay it would sell
for a fiver. The Tate’s meant to be the national collection of modern art. It’s more like the national junk shop.”
The Tate said: “We are pleased to acquire works by these artists using funds raised by Tate.”
See Sunday Express (29.12.13)) and Daily Mail (30.12.13).

Turner Prize conflicts of interest continue in Counterpunch (5.12.13)
Damien Hirst - another plagiarism claim... Evening Standard (25.11.13)
Damien Hirst Stole My Art - Lori Precious interview trailer on YouTube

Royal Mail will destroy your parcel, if it contains more than 4 pots of water-based paints (or if one of them exceeds 150ml). Repeat offenders can be prosecuted. Sign the protest petition here. See the Facebook page. And Royal Mail (near bottom).

Jonathan Jones in The Guardian (22.10.13): "The Stuckists still protest every year against the Turner prize" - with photo of Stuckist demo

HYPOCRISYSir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate gallery, speaks out for artistic freedom: "Artists afraid of losing sponsors ‘are self-censoring,’" he intrepidly asserts. Read it in The Independent (30.5.13). Charles Thomson said, "Serota is the censor. When Ivan Massow dared to step out of line and criticise conceptual art as tat, Serota said to him, 'They should have sacked you two weeks ago'. So much for freedom of expression. As a tutor from the Royal Academy once said to me, 'There's plenty of people here who agree with you, but they won't say anything, because they're afraid if they offend Serota, he won't buy their work for the Tate.'"

Stuckist Turner Prize demo
at Tate Britain
3 Dec 2012

The demo daytime + interviews
with Stuckist artist demonstrators

Ruth Dudley Edwards on theTurner Prize and censorship:
Telegraph blog (4.12.12)
See videos below...

Writing a comment for the
Turner Prize comments board

Comment being censored from the
Turner Prize comments board

Comment allowed when censored on the
Turner Prize comments board

Charles Thomson on censorship of the
Turner Prize comments board

Watch Stuckist clown greeting guests at the Turner Prize: video here

Charles Thomson on Turner Prize winner, Elizabeth Price, as a "wannabe documentary maker who has a place on late night TV, when no one’s watching". Quoted p.8 of The Times (4.11.12)

"Avant-garde? Derrière-garde I think. Dreary, pretentious, superficial, irrelevant. I don't mean the subject (as in Price's Woolworth fire - that is obviously tragic and serious) but the artistic treatment of it. If she'd have done the same thing to the Hillsborough disaster, there would be outrage. A straightforward documentary would have done the subject justice, but then there would be nothing to distinguish it from any other straightforward documentary, so in order to claim the status of art, it has to be given a mind-numbing treatment of split screens and repetitive captions, all of which are about the status of the artist, not the diginity or significance of the subject." Charles Thomson post on Jonathan Jones blog (4.12.12)

Nourishing Obscurity blog on Turner and related (4.12.12)

"Picketing the awards ceremony, as they do every year, were a handful of masked artists known as the Stuckists, who favor figurative painting and excoriate the conceptual art that, they say, is championed by Tate. 'Elizabeth Price is a wannabe documentary maker who has a place on late night TV, when no one’s watching,' said the movement’s co-founder Charles Thomson in a release e-mailed before the winner announcement. He made equally disparaging remarks about the other three contestants." Bloomberg and Businessweek (3.12.12)

"Since 2000 the Turner show has often attracted protests from traditionalist art activist group the Stuckists, who want a return to figurative painting." - France 24 , Breitbart (US), Google from AFP (3.12.12)

Huffington Post - 1st slideshow image is 2006 Stuckists demo (3.12.12)

Nathalie Zwimpfer in Basel, Switzerland on Turner Prize and Stuckists in Art Review blog (3.12.12)

"2000 The year international art group the Stuckists instituted the Real Turner Prize, for painters. They also staged their first demonstration against the prize, dressed as clowns, protesting that 'the only artist who wouldn't be in danger of winning the Turner Prize is Turner'." - In Numbers: The Turner Prize, Daily Mail (1.12.12) p. 40.

THE TURNER PRIZE IS BORING
- Ruth Dudley Edwards in The Spectator (1.12.12)

Art Clown of the Year Award 2012 goes to critic Richard Dorment of The Daily Telegraph for his asinine comment on the Turner Prize winner's pretentious film which trivialised a fire in a Woolworth store that killed 10 people:
"What is more, as I watched it with mounting excitement, I began to realize that I was in the presence of an artwork that has the potential fundamentally to change the way knowledge is transferred, the way we teach and the way we learn."

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Stuckist Turner Prize demo
1 Oct 2012

"As they have for twelve years, Stuckists demonstrated outside Tate Britain against the waste of space that is the Turner Prize. I went to pay my respects to the doughty few this morning in the driving rain. Since I began researching conceptual art for a satirical crime novel, I have admired Stuckists..." Read more in Ruth Dudley Edwards' blog on the Telegraph site (1.10.12)

"For those who aren’t aware of the ins and outs of Nicholas Serota or the Stuckists" The Saint (4.10.12)
"I am at Tate Britain with my friend Ruth Dudley Edwards to see the Stuckists demonstrate" Clearbluewater (1.10.12)
Stuckist demo mentioned by Ben Mirza in the Huffington Post (5.10.12)
Coxsoft says, "The most exciting thing about the show is the Stuckism demonstration outside." (1.10.12)
See the pic on the Daily Telegraph slide show (1.10.12)
"the Stuckists ... stood outside Tate with leaflets claiming 'Serota Needs a Good Spanking'" Artinfo (2.10.12)

"Since 2000 the Turner show has often attracted protests from traditionalist art activist group the Stuckists, who want a return to figurative painting." - Google (1.5.12), Orange (Botswana), (3.12.12) SBS (Australia) (2.12.12), from AFP.

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NEW JOE MACHINE WEBSITE: www.joemachine.info See his page on this site here

Artista Eli on Stuckism - Revelations of a Revolution in Artiscape (Jan 2012)

Streaker at the Turner Prize from Channel 4 live blog (5.12.11).:
"21:00: The consensus is the “streaker” had “study this” written on his belly. A stuckist? Or a student protester?"

Jonathan Jones in his Guardian blog on the Turner Prize and his Stuckist portrait (5.12.11).

"Billy Childish ... was the founder of the so-called Stuckists, who stand every year with their posters outside the Tate, protesting that the Turner Prize is all a load of tosh." - Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times T2, p. 1 (13.7.11)

Bill Lewis featured on cover of Wow Medway (Sept 2011). See his work here.

Charles Williams new book: Basic Drawing: How To Draw What You See. See his work here.

Show ended The Enemies of Art A show which featured UK, Prague and international Stuckists at Lauderdale House, Highgate, London. Opening with Michael Žantovský (Czech Ambassador to the UK), Edward Lucie-Smith (critic and author), and Robert Janas (founder of The Prague Stuckists). A book The Enemies of Art, with an introductory essay by Edward Lucie-Smith, is published by Victoria Press. Photos and video here.

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