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International art movement for contemporary figurative painting with ideas. Anti the pretensions of conceptual art. Anti-anti-art. The first Remodernist art group. Daubers (daubing is the new painting).
There are 226 Stuckist groups in 52 countries.

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Bishi by Ella Guru
See her work 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.


Billy Childish and the Stuckists - Anachronism in the UK released for
the 2000
Real Turner Prize Show (Billy left the Stuckists in 2001).
Listen to the Turner Prize Manifesto 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?

Penguin Modern Classics publishes 100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists edited by Alex Danchev. This includes three Stuckist manifestos. Read more here.

TURNER PRIZE
"The Turner Prize award ceremony always attracts protest — usually in the shape of the Stuckists, a group of bedraggled, eccentric-looking artists who gather outside Tate Britain in funny hats and bemoan the death of representational painting."
The Spectator (22.1.11.)

Jonathan Jones disapproves of the Stuckists again on his Guardian blog (16.9.10). And on his blog (28.9.10): "The Stuckists are right about a lot (just wrong about everything that matters)." Jonathan Jones on the Stuckists + pic of 2001 Turner demo. See his Guardian blog 25.11.10


Damien Hirst demo at Christie's (14.10.10) - police called after harassment
WHAT CHRISTIE'S DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE HERE

Good artists borrow, great artists steal, crap artists get caught stealing.
THE ART DAMIEN HIRST STOLE
Read it on 3am / stuckism


The art Damien Hirst Stole - part 2 on 3ammagazine (9.4.11)

"A fake Hirst is not a Hirst not made by Hirst, of course, as Hirst does not make his own work anyway. It is a Hirst not made by Hirst which Hirst says is not a Hirst, though in all other respects it is quite possibly identical to a Hirst not made by Hirst, which Hirst says is a Hirst." - Charles Thomson quoted in the Daily Mail (6.11.10)


Above: two original artists
and one not quite so original.

Q: Why is it impossible to show your work?
John LeKay: Because now everyone who sees it now says it looks like a Damien Hirst artwork ... it appears that Damien thought that when I walked away from the art world back in 95, that gave him carte blanche to take anything he wanted. Maybe he saw it as free pickings, sifting through my work like a vulture. His problem is that I'm still alive and kicking and have no intention of going away.
From Johnlekay.com



If you can't see the video click here.

DAMIEN HIRST PLAGIARISM
THE GUARDIAN (2.9.10)
(in print 3.9.10)

Also Artinfo (2.9.10), Juxtapoz (2.9.10), The Daily Telegraph (3.9.10). Público (Portugal 3.9.10).
BBC
(3.9.10): Hirst's press officer promises a "comprehensive" rebuttal. We look forward to that. Ah, this must be the comprehensive rebuttal:
Q: You have repeatedly been accused of plagiarism. Is there any truth to the claims?
Damien Hirst: It's just gibberish, isn't it? Just ridiculous. It's nothing really.

The Observer (26.9.10).

Ongoing 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).

Blogs

Art Fag City (6.9.10), Peter Friedman Associate Professor, Legal Analysis & Writing Case Western Reserve University School of Law, gives the legal angle (7.9.10). Big Think (7.9.10). A report on London Art News (9.9.10).

Natasha Nicole Waddon is not happy with all thist. See her blog (2.9.10).


Transparency in the art world by Charles Thomson on Counterpunch (2.3.11)

Katherine Rose, director of Flow Education and Culture Consultants, in a talk, Dimensions in British contemporary art 1990 to 2010, at the British Library, Hyberabad, India (3.2.11): "Stuckism, founded in 1999, is one of the many major movements that influenced the art scene in Britain." Report on Indian Express (4.2.11)

Stella Vine's finest moment in The Independent (24.5.10)

Guy Denning, Stuckist artist, in The Independent (5.8.10)

This site is one of Spoonfed's Top 10 London Art Blogs - though "Not strictly speaking a blog". (27.7.10)

Jane Kelly is being treated for ovarian cancer. See her blog icantbelieveitsreallycancer , and her article in The Daily Telegraph (19.7.10)

In debate with art critic Richard Cork, Stuckist co-founder Charles Thomson talked about the
Saatchi Gallery bequest (describing it as "a kind of cultural equivalent of Legoland) on BBC Radio 4 PM programme (2.7.10). Some of the discussion was broadcast on PRI's The World (1.7.10)

Charles Thomson writes on the future of art in FAD (19.6.10).

Hugh Muir in The Guardian (5th item), 15.6.10, on Stuckism, Billy Childish, Edgeworth Johnstone, Eileen Cooper RA, Mark D (aka Randall) and Stella "go fuck yourself" Vine. Mark D exhibits an "ominous" work (image left) in the Royal Academy Summer Show 2010. See here.

Newsweek, Polish edition (6.6.10), runs a feature on Stuckism. It includes a photo of the Stuckist shark, and starts with a description of Darren Udaiyan's painting The Enemies of Art (Google translation): "Easily identify traitors. Among them is the UK's biggest collector Charles Saatchi, his wife, the famous cook Nigella Lawson and popular critic of the Guardian by Jonathan Jones."

Brisbane Gallery of Remodernism announced. Info here.

Michael Dickinson guilty of insulting the Turkish Prime Minister with a collage, sentenced to 14 months jail, commuted to a fine. (9.3.10). Michael Dickinson interview on BBC World Service Europe Today 9.3.10. Listen online here (item starts at 13.50). Reports on BBC here and here, and Hurriyet (9.3.10). Background here. Photos here.

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Spoonfed listings of London art. Subscribe to the Spoonfed London Art free weekly newsletter here.

DAMIEN HIRST'S PAINTINGS

Damien Hirst the excellent painter - here
Damien Hirst and Reactionary Critics Damien Hirst Reviewed by Stuckists Damien Hirst the Stuckist

The critics said Damien Hirst's paintings are rubbish. They have been praised as "an outstanding achievement"
..... by a Stuckist .... in the Daily Mail. Now there's some irony for you.
23.11.09 (under the photo of Boris).

See more coverage in Culture 24 and on Spoonfed
Spoonfed on Wallace Collection 110th anniversary with Stuckist support for Hirst (22.6.10).
What is Damien Hirst playing at? Charles Thomson writes for Counterpunch, 22.10.09.

Facebook group, "Supporters of Damien Hirst's paintings" here

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