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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Is It Art?
See also the bricks in the Tate gallery and Hirst fakes
See all the poems here

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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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