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THE HOME PAGE
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"one
of the largest, most international and most active art sites on the
internet"
- Edward
Lucie-Smith, Art Review (Nov 2004)
One of Modern Art's "key styles" - Styles, Schools
and Movements (Amy Dempsey, Thames & Hudson)
"a unified, coherent challenge to the prevailing BritArt orthodoxy...
speaking the populist language of the ‘man in the street’ with catchy
slogans and use of humour, while backing this up with a coherent philosophy
written by established artists drawing on a detailed knowledge of
art history and criticism." - Jeremy Williams Artscape
"The
Stuckists were one of the first to challenge the direction in which
contemporary art was moving" - Ivan Massow
"Up the Stuckists. I really
like the Stuckists." - Waldemar Januszczak
"people...
should... see the Stuckist exhibition" - Gavin Turk, BBC website
listen
here
"Right on to the Stuckists"
- Matthew Collings
"Lively" - Sir Nicholas
Serota
"Art
with attitude" - Arty
magazine
"Stuckists have no place on the contemporary
art scene" - Cathy Lomax, Transition Gallery
The
Stuckists requested acquisition prices from the Tate in August
last year under the Freedom of Information Act. This was declined
and a 20,000 word appeal lodged in February this year. In
July, Tate Chairman, Paul Myners, wrote to us that the prices
would be made public after all. This has now happened.
Story in The
Times (19.9.06), bloomberg.com
and The
Daily Mail (19.9.06)
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Tate
trustee John Studzinsksi's firm HSBC backs Tate show as "a
commercial opportunity".
Independent (20.7.06)
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"The
vacuum of the Tate ivory tower" on
Mark Vallen site with Stuckist comments.
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The
Tate breaks the rules (again) with UBS sponsorship here
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Janet Street-Porter lashes "embittered" Stuckists
in the Independent.
Cutting here.
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UNDERAGE
STUCKISTS MANIFESTO HERE
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London
Surrealists praise Stuckism here |
SAATCHI
YOUR GALLERY
The Saatchi gallery has generously opened its pages to all
artists. Post your work here
See pages by Stuckists Jeffrey
Scott Holland, Abby
Jackson, Remy
Noe, Godfrey
Blow, Michael
Dickinson , Terry
Marks, Leo
Goatley, Andrew
Galbraith, Adam
Crosland, Dan
Belton,
Frank
Schroeder, Angela
Edwards, Jesse
Richards, John
Bourne, Eamon
Everall, Philip
Absolon, Mike
Mayhew, Tony
Juliano, Peter
Murphy, Elsa
Dax, Jane
Kelly,
Anne
Forte, Edgeworth
Johnstone, Jasmine
Maddock, Naive
John, Asim
Butt, Odysseus
Yakoumakis, Stuckist co-founder Charles
Thomson
+ guest artist Mark
D, friend Mark
Vallen
and ex Stuckist
exhibitors Stella
Vine and Gina
Bold
Michael
Dickinson, Terry Marks, Charles Thomson (twice), Andrew Galbraith,
Godfrey Blow (twice), John Bourne, Tony Juliano and Jesse
Richards report receiving the following email (27.4.06):
Hello, Very happy to see your work on the gallery site. I
am thrilled that the standard is so high from such a variety
of artists and hope it will be interesting to gallery owners,
exhibition curators and collectors to see such diverse work.
All my best, Charles Saatchi
Jesse Richards said, "What a nice man." John
Bourne sent a thank you email, but it bounced back.
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"Freedom"
attacks Stuckists' good name
on Saatchi site here
and here.
As The
Archive of Misheard Lyrics puts it: "Freedom is another
word for nothing else to do."
"Self-promoting
stuck artists ... sad fuckers ... demanding the resignation
of Sir Nicholas Serota ... you make me sick", says
"freedom" on Saatchi
Gallery forum.
"stand outside the tate to get another bit of publicity
for yourself..when you've finished why don't you write a few
letters to all the artists whose careers you're milking and
say how happy you are that you've caused them misery and hope
that the next time they take a blade to their wrists it will
hit the vein. and then..go around and tell people how spiritual
you are. you people make me sick." er, another post
from "freedom" on a different Saatchi
Gallery forum. [Bit heavy, isn't it? -
Ed]
See also Wikipedia: Stuckist
demonstrations
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Stuckism
mentioned or Stuckists contributing to other Saatchi forums
here,
here
, here,
here
and here
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Email
from Edward Lucie-Smith
"Good article - measured and not excited and abusive. [Is
Serota Dead in the Water?]
What
we are seeing right now is the end of a cycle. Everyone knows that the 1990s situation
is over; no-one knows what happens next. The Turner Prize [the artistic equivalent
of Celebrity Big Brother] is dead on its feet [unlike the real Celebrity Big Brother].
The reason is that the participants are no longer mini-celebrities hoping to become
much bigger celebrities, they are nonentities who don't excite the public at all
and don't even excite journalists much. Any controversy is simply part of a ritual
- going through the motions. Saatchi has clearly lost direction and has probably
lost his bottle as well.
"The great ironic art event of this coming year will be the display of artworks
from Damien Hirst's own art collection at the Serpentine - and I'm sure Hirst,
who is bright, is aware of it. It's an Up Yours, Move Over Charlie Boy, You Made
Me But Now I'm Bigger Than You Are situation. The question is whether Hirst can
sustain the whole thing financially - he has embarked on a hugely expensive path
with his vast new mansion and made himself extremely vulnerable to any financial
downturn as well as any change of taste. The Japanese stock market had an enormous
crash very recently - down 7% at one point. The Iran situation suggests there
may soon be an oil crisis.
"Meanwhile the art world and the fashion world have become symbiotic to an
extent that hasn't been the case since the heyday of the Paris Salon under Napoleon
III's Second Empire. If you remember, the biggest newsmakers about the last Serpentine
Gallery party - now, together with Sir Elton's charity ball, one of the two or
three biggest social events of the year - were Paris Hilton's presence and her
frock. With that alone I rest my case" Jan
2006. Reproduced by permission.
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The
Stuckists in El
Tiempo (Colombia) - in Spanish (3.12.05)
Billy Childish and Stuckism in
The
Age (Australia) (4.12.05)
last Stuckist show photos here
(click on THE STUCKISTS for photos
ART
SCAM by "STEVEN ROCKFELLERS" (stevenrockfellers01@msn.com)
Sample
email text, headed "Painting needed":
Hello There, Good day to
you.I need you to make a painting for me as a gift to be presented to my wife
for her coming birthday.The kind of painting i want for her could be a Landscape
or Wild life.Any medium whether acrylic,water or oil based painting will be okay.I
am Considering a price range of between $1,500-$1,900 as my budget for this project.Please
get back to me soon on this and if on the other hand you could come up with something
different from this,please let me know okay. Steven
He sends a cheque
for an excess amount and asks you to refund the difference.
His cheque then
bounces. He also 'buys' furniture. See
here. |
Abby
Jackson writes on Stuckism in Aesthetica
magazine (click "inside", then "articles")
Buy
a copy from Borders bookshop or online. | *
Art and Antiques magazine, Sept 2005 (Czech Republic) - 10 page article
on Stuckism:
a painters' movement for the internet age (intro
here).
Read text in Czech here
(word doc). |
Interview with Godfrey Blow (Perth Stuckists) on www.mungbeing.com
(issue 4). See also issue
2 The Outsider
Art and Stuckism issue,
and Issue
3 paintings by Godfrey Blow and Kim
Richardson
(St Louis Missouri Stuckists).
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Modern
art is not rubbish. For: Tracey Emin. Against: Stuckists. On BBC site here |
News
on ex Stuckists
Stella
Vine objects to red dots next to her paintings .
Independent (1.8.05). She
was in The Sun (30.8.05) and Hello!
after selling a picture of Princess Diana Murdered, Pregnant,
Embalmed, to George Michael for £25,000. Stella
Vine video from ITN here
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Britart
including Hirst and Emin slide at auction - bloomberg.com
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Letter
in The Daily Telegraph on recovery of the stolen Turners (12.11.05)
by Michael Daley, ArtWatch UK
Paul Myners (Tate Chairman): "The Tate did not pay a.....reward".
Sandy Nairne (formerly Tate Programmes Director): "We knew.....a
reward would be necessary".
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Luke
Heighton's The Future inaccuracies corrected here
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Billy Childish not a cuckold, nor in a clown suit, and Stella
Vine not a brainless, rotten painter etc etc. etc. etc.
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New
site for Stuckism International Centre Germany www.atelierlewenhagen.de
(in German).
Page
on the Centre on our site with Philip Absolon, Ella Guru, Sexton
Ming, baby Lucy and Christian Malsch here
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| "A
cultured person is someone who appreciates Mozart and Radiohead,
can argue a case for Tracey Emin or the Stuckists, and who understands
what a metaphor is." - The
Scotsman 7 Jan 2005 |
www.mungbeing.com
(no.2) "The Outsider Art and Stuckism issue"
Issue
3 just online - features paintings by Stuckists Godfrey
Blow and Kim Richardson |
News
on the Ex Stuckist front: the lovely Stella
Vine has a show StellaWood at Hamilton's, 13 Carlos
Place, London W1, 23 June - 23 Sept (closed 6-22 Aug). See also
www.stellavine.com
. All the paintings (which have grown to sizes around 6' square)
sold on the opening night, raising in the region of £80,000.
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Stuckist
interview in Rant Magazine - out now
£3.99 London outlets: Serpentine Gallery, ICA, Tatty Divine
(Brick Lane & Soho), Lik&Neon (Brick Lane), Beyond the Valley
(Carnaby St), Select-a-disc (Soho); also available in NY, Paris,
Berlin, Amsterdam and Tokyo.
Or send cheque for £5.20 to T/Rant, P O Box 4042, Manchester
M60 1XZ
Web site: www.rant-magazine.com
Email distribution@rant-magazine.com
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| A
beginner's guide to the modern world: Stuckists in The Age
(Melbourne) here
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What
makes a painting a painting? According to an article in Art
News (April 2005) a painting doesn't have to be made with
paint. It can be a laser or inkjet print or a light projection
amongst other things. Presumably the logical development of this
is to call synchronised swimming a painting and an egg a hippopotamus.
Find out how to do it here
(& maybe
this is a painting here?
- try to get the one with the dog jumping up.) |
DAUBS
From The Jackdaw
no. 47 (April 2005):
"The
Stuckist movement has offered the Tate 100 paintings by its members for their
collection. If the Tate accepts these ridiculous daubs the Jackdaw will dance
naked - except for his favourite swastika armband - down Whitehall singing Mamma
Mia."
More on the Jackdaw (aka David Lee, ex editor of Art
Review) here
Comment
by Ranko Bon:
"Concerning David Lee's dance, I'm sure he would do
it. You should do your utmost to get Serota to cooperate. The entire art world
would be so much the richer." Bon on Lee here
Comment by Peter McArdle:
Just read David Lee/Jackdaw piece, very interesting, I had an exhibition
reviewed in Art Review that concluded my work "augured well for the future
of British painting" and now I am a dauber.
McArdle's daubs here
Herr von Stuck comments::
David Lee's label of "ridiculous
daubs" follows hard on the heels of Time Out Art Editor Sarah Kent's previous
analysis of Stuckists as "Bayswater Road-style daubers". As obviously
neither of them knows what they're talking about, these terms must henceforth
be interpreted as (unintended) accolades.
See comment on Charles Saatchi
and Sarah Kent here.
Stuckist
paintings for the Tate? Times article here
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DAUBS
AND DAUBERS - a new
essay |
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* Why isn't
Stella Vine in The Triumph of Painting?
here * Stuckist
demo at Saatchi Gallery here
* Photos
of The Triumph of Painting opening including Nigella Lawson, Grayson Perry,
Salman Rushdie, Hermann Nitsch and... er, Stuckist Co-founder Charles Thomson
here
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Emily Mann modelled for
Paul Harvey's The Stuckist Punk Victorian (behind her)
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First
Stuckist show in Austria by Alex Forster aka
Cabròn (Vienna Stuckists) here
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Stuckist
letter in The Guardian (22 Oct 05) here
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Guy
Denning (Bristol Stuckists) on Guardian
blog
"who's to say that craft
based art isn't 'conceptual'. 'Conceptual'
isn't a medium."
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Mark
Vallen's weblog on 'Tate Rave' here
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The
irrepressible Ranko Bon on the irascible David
Lee here
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Stuckist
Emily Mann on C5 TV Make Me a Supermodel here
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Mobiles:
download a Stuckist picture at www.candyspace.tv
Click 'still', then 'art.
Go to pages 5 and 6.
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Sacked
Daily Mail journalist and
Stuckist artist Jane Kelly
in the Independent (2.2.05)
a new painting here
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Pictures
of Stuckist Turner demo on UPPA (Universal
Pictorial Press and Agency) here
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Background
photo (by Emily Mann): Charles Thomson, John Bourne, Sir Nicholas Serota
and Joe Machine at The Stuckists Punk Victorian. See whole photo here
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