Top
artists websites: 1) White Cube 2) Saatchi Gallery 3) Stuckism 4) Tracey
Emin 5) Damien Hirst -The
Times "Stuckism art is beautiful, fierce and awkward at times but
ultimately it represents passionate, political, unafraid artists. It
is absolute, true, uncontrived art." www.somascene.com
International
art movement for contemporaray figurative painting with
ideas. Anti the pretensions of conceptual art. Anti-anti-art.
The first Remodernist art group.
Daubers (daubing is the new painting).
Contents
of site here
Tel:
020 8343 4282. Email:stuckism@yahoo.co.uk
The
General Editor of this site is Peter McArdle.
For site policy and use of material, see here.
Lara
says: "I'm the ideal Stuckist pinup, I managed to get back
into painting after a 10 year break thanks to reading the manifesto
on your very page!
I'm gonna found a group I think, full of my online friends.....
" Find her on MySpace.
SEROTA,
KNICKERS, JAPAN AND PETITION The
Independent (5.5.08)
BEVIS
HILLIER SIGNS THE PETITION:
Serota... "a ruinous figure"The
Observer (4.5.08) Also reported
in ArtInfo
(5.5.08)
The
Serota petition is "website of the day" for 2 May on counterpunch.org
According to Building
Design ("the architect's website") Nicholas Serota is
"going down" (2.5.08)
SIGN
THE PETITION AT:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/tatedirector
You
must be a British citizen or resident. Important: Where it says "confirm email",
you have to enter your email address again. Then click the "sign"
button. A message should appear, saying you have been sent an
email. When you get the email, it contains a link, which you
have to click to validate your name. (If you don't get the email,
check your bulk/spam folder.) Then check the petition, to make
sure your name has appeared. Any problems, contact the epetitions
team - email address on www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page50.asp
We
the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to state that he
will not give his approval to any reappointment of Sir Nicholas
Serota as Director of the Tate gallery.
Sir
Nicholas Serota was appointed as Director of the Tate gallery
in 1988 on a seven year contract, renewed in 1995 and again
in 2002. It expires on 31 August 2009, and the appointment of
a Director for the next seven years must be decided by 31 August
this year.
The
appointment is made by the Tate Trustees with the Prime Minister’s
approval, as stated in the Museums and Galleries Act 1992 (c.
44) 1992 CHAPTER 44, Schedule 2: The Board of Trustees of the
Tate Gallery: 3 (1):
There shall be a Director of the Tate Gallery who shall be appointed
by the Board with the approval of the Prime Minister
By
law, it is therefore within the Prime Minister’s remit and powers
to give or withhold approval. It is also within his remit and
powers to state his intention in this regard.
THE
STORY OF SUBMITTING A PETITION TO THE PRIME MINISTER
Simon Groom, Director
of modern and contemporary art at National Galleries of Scotland,
gets an unsurprising surprise over Tracey Emin's bed here
(22.4.08)
Good
Boy,
collage by Michael Dickinson
Sign the protest
petition on mungbeing.com.
TWO
YEARS JAIL FOR THIS COLLAGE? Michael
Dickinson appeared in court (again) in Istanbul on 24 March 2008,
for displaying this collage, which shows Turkish Prime Minister,
Tayyip Erdogan. The professors of art from Marmara university invited
by the judge to give their evaluation as to whether it was art or
insult didn't show up, so the trial has been adjourned (again) to
25 October 2008 .
He
faces possible jail under article 125/3 "insulting the prime
minister". See the Turkish Freedom of Expression group list
(page 9). Read
his new article on Counterpunch.
More
on Michael Dickinson here.
See also wikipedia.
It
has taken the editor some four months to bring himself to post this
but now we
proudly present Mauretania:
Sailor Tattoo Song
by New York Stuckist
Terry Marks
The
above video may or may not be something to do with Paul Harvey who used to co-run something
called Mauretania Comics. For more songs see here.
From
Trouble at the Tate in The Evening Standard (ES magazine 1.3.08)
by Godfrey Barker:
A
couple of years ago Serota was asked a question on BBC Radio 4 over
alleged 'insider dealing'. Was he 'irritated', inquired Mark Lawson,
by those who had blown the whistle on the Tate buying art from its own
trustees? Not at all, replied Sir Nicholas amiably. The Stuckists (an
art protest group who believe the Tate are a self-serving group of conceptual
artists and their acolytes) "obviously regard themselves - indeed
they have acted in the public interest in this instance. They don't
irritate me. I think that as a public servant I should be here at the
service of the public and that includes the Stuckists."
Tate Ofili trustee scandal here.
Yet
another conflict of interest involving Tate trustee Jeremy Deller, this
time with Ken Livingstone.
Sunday Telegraph 9.3.08
Adelaide
Stuckists find something in common with football fans here.
(11.3.08)
Time
Out 12.2.08
" Serota stoked up further animosity by allegedly rejecting work
offered to the Tate both by Charles Saatchi, who was the major collector
of young British artists (YBAs) at the time, and by their opponents,
the frankly hopeless stuckists." Link.
Sounds like the frankly hopeless Sarah Kent having her say again.
At
last "Charles Thompson/The Stuckists" (sic) have made it onto
an art list - and at number 2, narrowly being beaten by J.J. Charlesworth,
the reviews editor of Art Review magazine, but way ahead of The Centre
of Attention (8), Fiona Banner (10), Tim Marlow (a paltry 21), Normal
Rosenthal (32), Banksy indeed (33), David Lee of The Jackdaw (hee hee)
(34), Michael Craig-Martin (35), the fine Aesthetica magazine (37),
Gavin Turk (48) and Julian Opie (50)! It is the new Rebel magazine's
"Top 50 Least Important Art World Figures & Institutions".
As JJ himself said, "I’m glad that I’m apparently more less important
than they are." The list is mentioned in The
Guardian (last item) (28.12.07); more about it on artinfo.com
and an interview with Rebel editors Harry Pye and Jasper Joffe by the
delightful Ms Ana Finel Honigman
on the Saatchi
site. Buy The Rebel from the Tate gallery (Eh? - Ed.) (No, seriously.)
"The
Stuckist Revolt" by Stacey Allison in ArtShow
magazine (1.1.08)
Left:
part of ArtShow magazine's timeline. Click image to go to the whole
timeline.
Doris's
crack aka Shibboleth cost £23,000 to ship: Daily
Mail (24.2.08) + Stuckist quote
Mark Lawson alludes to Stuckists on BBC Radio 4 Front Row (19.2.08)
in conversation with airhead "Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art
is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!" Louisa
Buck and Brad Lochore who thinks someone's shoe
is art (video). Here
is a sample of the conversation concerning Duchamp's urinal. Lochore
(contradicting himself as usual within a single sentence): "it
does remain the kind of butt up against which everyone seems to debate
whether things are or are not art, which - I think we've kind of moved
beyond that ..." Lawson comments: "you say we've got beyond
that. Artists have. At least, most of them have, apart from the Stuckists
possibly..." (background sniggers). Indeed artists have got beyond
that. Unfortunately a number of them have failed as yet to get beyond
getting beyond that.
MARK
D IN THE
INDEPENDENT (13.2.08) Apparently he's been satirising
Stella Vine's favourite subjects
of Princess Diana and Kate Moss, by substituting Posh
Spice for the former and depicting the latter eating
slugs. This is nothing to do with the fact that Ms Vine once told
him to "Go fuck yourself", when he wanted to buy one of her
paintings.
Charles
Thomson appeared on BBC1 Breakfast
News (8.2.08) discussing a ghastly
sculpture in Holland Park. He took in his own sculpture, The
Iraq War, which bore a distinct resemblance to a potato, and a portrait
of Victoria Beckham which was to the untrained observer a squashed cardboard
box.
More
trustee acquisitions revealed at the Tate gallery, which had previously
not counted prints as acquisitions(!) Stuckists quoted. Sunday
Telegraph (19.1.08)
Also
in the paper David Lee comments.
See history of Tate Chris Ofili scandal here.
I
feel - or maybe hope - that there will eventually be a return to painting
and draughtsmanship. We have already seen signs of this in the Turner
Prize, and in new art movements such as The Stuckists. - Peter London, Grafitti Magazine and Gallery West-Eleven,
interviewed on Contemporary
Art Gallery, March 2007
I
WON'T HAVE SEX WITH YOU AS LONG AS WE'RE MARRIED Stuckist
show ended - info &
press (including Tate Chairman's visit) + photos
of show
STUCKISM Gordon
Brown accused of stuckism in The Sunday Times (4.11.07). More here.
David
Lee excoriates the Stuckists in the same breath as the Turner Prize
and Andy Goldsworthy on myartspace.com
(16.11.07). We've arrived!
Pinhole ("Stuckism") photos invited for New
book.
Stuckism
and charity commission censure of the Tate on politicalaffairs.net
(11.5.07)
CHARLES
THOMSON
Charles Thomson, Stuckist Co-founder, was on London Talking,
ITV London, midnight, Tues 22 January.
Charles
Thomson interviewed on Stuckism in thethingis
magazine issue 3 (Sep 2007). Either click "view issue 3", then red
square at bottom of page, or direct link to article here.
Stuck! Stuck! Stuck! the song by Factory
Floor. 2nd song here
or to play mp3 click here.
(first 15 seconds are silent)More
info from
David Jarvis on Facebook.com
GEOFFREY
SCOTT HOLLAND
Mid-Kentucky Stuckist, Jeffrey Scott Holland's "Project Egg"
cancelled over anti-plastic concerns (Jan 08). More
here.
PETER
MURPHY Peter
Murphy (Broadstairs Stuckist) does it like Fra Angelico in Tuscany here
Peter Murphy icons in Hereford Cathedral: The
Times (6.8.07) Slide show on myspace.
Peter Murphy (Broadstairs Stuckist and iconographer) on
BBC site (video)
MARK
D
"Mark D & the Stuckists v Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst"
show in Nottingham reviewed on BBC
site
JANE
KELLY Jane Kelly (Acton Stuckist) in TV
documentary on Daily Mail: The
Guardian (20.8.07).
Jane Kelly's Paul Dacre painting: The
Guardian + image
(22.8.07)
EX-STUCKISTS
Former Stuckist Gina
Bold is featured on page 101 of the March issue of Easy Living
magazine.
Charles
Thomson interviewed about ex Stuckists on artuk.com
(1.3.07)
Nigella
Lawson
by Paul Harvey
STUCKISTS
PAINT PICTURES Paul Harvey's celebs here
Pola