FROM
THE PAPERS A
must-read blog by Edgeworth
Johnstone
Ruth
Dudley Edwards on theTurner Prize and censorship:
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? Derričre-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 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:
Stuckist
Turner Prize demo
"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)
"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. Damien
Hirst at it again (with magpies this time) The
Mail on Sunday
(28.10.12)
Stuckist
and Ruth Dudley Edwards v Tate: The
Guardian (3rd item) (26.10.12) Stuckism mentioned in long-running BBC1 afternoon drama series, Doctors, series 14, episode titled "Virtuous Reality" by Jeremy Hylton Davies (17.9.12.). An artist explains to his friend about an "Interview with an American arts programme. Would not get off the idea that I was Stuckist. Said, 'Could have been a Stuckist, but stuck to what he was brilliant at ... Stuckist! It's like asking Corbusier if he did half-timbered.'" It was available to watch for a week on BBC iPlayer, relevant scene at 04:23, but that has expired now.... The video above is from a Design Research Methods group project at Lasalle College of the Arts in Singapore wth the aim to "research and sell the art movement Stuckism in a presentation through any form or methods that deem appropriate". Personnel: Renessa Sandhu, Keli Lim, Hui Min Lee, Serene Tan, Jiayi Watt.
New
group founded by Wayne Wolfson: The
Redwood City Stuckists (US), Aug 2012. "Let's talk Stuckism" on Fur Affinity Forums, 19.8.12 Forthcoming - iBooks by EB Publishing for Stuckist artists Joe Machine and Jasmine Maddock. Mark D and the Stuckists in Nottingham. Read the review here (6.7.12). Stuckism
was part of an A Level exam paper, thanks to Paul Harvey and Charles
Saatchi's cheese halo. See The
Journal (Newcastle) 7.4.12.
Good
artists borrow, great artists steal, crap artists get caught stealing.
BBC (3.9.10): Hirst's press officer promises a "comprehensive" rebuttal. We look forward to that. Ah, this must be the comprehensive rebuttal: Question:
You have repeatedly been accused of plagiarism. Is there any truth to
the claims? Question:
Why is it impossible to show your work?
DAMIEN
HIRST PLAGIARISM Also
Artinfo
(2.9.10), Juxtapoz
(2.9.10), The
Daily Telegraph (3.9.10). Público
(Portugal 3.9.10). Other coverage: Animal (8.9.10), Finchley Times (9.9.10), Mediabistro (9.9.10), The Awl (10.9.10), Flavorwire see here (10.9.10), The National (UAE) (11.9.10). Photo on Flash Art (c.25.11.10).
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).: 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.
Charles Thomson on Spoonfed
(8.4.11): Public arts funding for the pockets of the rich?
Jonathan Jones in The Guardian (31.3.11): Are the Stuckists right about modern British art? 100
Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists( Penguin Modern Classics) Edited by Alex Danchev. This includes three Stuckist manifestos. More here. Some
old material previously on this page is now here.
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