List of other Stuckist demos here

TURNER PRIZE DEMO 2000
The first Stuckist demo, 28 November 2000

Single clown photo: Charles Thomson, Stuckist Co-founder
Group clown photo from left to right: Red M & M costume: Ella Guru. Blue mask: Rachel Jordan. Brown hat/red nose: Elsa Dax. Brown shirt: Fanny. Straw hat: Philip Absolon. Silver tinsel: Katherine Gardner. Bunny ears: Michelle England. Cat woman: Charlotte Gavin. Dark glasses: Remy Noe. Blue tinsel: Susan Finlay. Black mask: Margaret Walsh. Flat cap: Matthew Robinson. 

Billy Childish, Stuckist Co-founder, was due to participate in a Duchamp boiler suit, but was prevented by a bout of gastroenteritis. A month earlier, with Charles Thomson, he had leafleted the National Portrait Gallery and the Tate Channel 4 Turner Prize party. More here.

Stuckist Clown Non-Demo, 28 November 2000, at Tate Britain, the day of the Turner Prize announcement. We were simply exercising our democratic right to visit a gallery we had paid for through our taxes in the attire of our choice - as confirmed by the Tate. 

We also took the opportunity to award the Anti Turner Prize Prize to the Art Clown of the Year for outstanding idiocy in the visual arts....This was awarded to Charles Saatchi and was a pie to put in his own face. He also had to buy the pie as we forgot to get one. Other nominees were Sir Nicholas Serota, Norman Rosenthal (who's he?) and Sarah Kent (who's she?). 

Archives on the entire event can be found here and the Secret Diary of Ella Guru here. 

See article on BBC web site here (28.11.00)

The demo was covered by BBC Newsroom SouthEast and London Life radio during the day.

Whilst presenting the Turner Prize show on Channel 4, Matthew Collings described the demo and commented, "Well done, Stuckists."

The Guardian page 3 headline on the prize was "Turner winner riles the Stuckists.

It was discussed by Angus Deayton and Matthew Collings on BBC's weekly satire "Have I got news for you", Friday 1 December.

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