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Go West (exhibition)
''Go West'' is the title of the first exhibition by Stuckist artists in a commercial London West End gallery. It was staged in Spectrum London gallery in October 2006. The show attracted media interest for its location, for the use of a painting satirising Sir Nicholas Serota, Director of the Tate gallery, and for two paintings of a stripper by Charles Thomson based on his former wife, artist Stella Vine. Show The Stuckists had previously been seen as art world outsiders, but with the backing of a West End gallery in a "major exhibition"Barnes, Anthony (2006"Portrait of an ex-husband's revenge"''The Independent on Sunday''. Retrieved 9 October 2006, from findarticles.com became "major players" in the art world.Teodorczuk, Tom (2006"Modern art is pants" ''Evening Standard'', 22 August 2006. Retrieved 9 October 2006 from thisislondon.co.uk. Ten leading Stuckist artists were exhibited. Royden Prior, the director of Spectrum London, said, "These artists are good and are part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saatchi Gallery
The Saatchi Gallery is a London gallery for contemporary art and an independent charity opened by Charles Saatchi in 1985. Exhibitions which drew upon the collection of Charles Saatchi, starting with US artists and minimalism, moving to the Damien Hirst-led Young British Artists, followed by shows purely of painting, led to Saatchi Gallery becoming a recognised authority in contemporary art globally. It has occupied different premises, first in North London, then the South Bank by the River Thames, and finally in Chelsea, Duke of York's HQ, its current location. In 2019 Saatchi Gallery became a registered charity and begun a new chapter in its history. Recent exhibitions include the major solo exhibition of the artist JR, ''JR: Chronicles'', and ''London Grads Now'' in September 2019 lending the gallery spaces to graduates from leading fine art schools who experienced the cancellation of physical degree shows due to the pandemic. The gallery's mission is to support artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stuckists Punk Victorian
''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'' was the first national gallery exhibition of Stuckist art.Moss, Richard"Stuckist's Punk Victorian gatecrashes Walker's Biennial Culture24, 17 September 2004. Retrieved 3 December 2009. It was held at the Walker Art Gallery and Lady Lever Art Gallery in Liverpool from 18 September 2004 to 20 February 2005 and was part of the 2004 Liverpool Biennial. It comprised more than 250 paintings by 37 artists, mostly from the UK but also with a representation of international Stuckist artists from the US, Germany and Australia. There was also a smaller accompanying exhibition of the Stuckist Photographers. A book, ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', was published to accompany the exhibition. Six fringe shows, created in association with the event, took place internationally. Some of the work was compared with the "shocking" work of YBAs, Jake and Dinos Chapman.Mansfield, Susan"The artists who are glad to be stuck in their ways" ''The Scotsman'', 28 Septembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuckist Demonstrations
Stuckist demonstrations since 2000 have been a key part of the Stuckist art group's activities and have succeeded in giving them a high-profile both in Britain and abroad. Their primary agenda is the promotion of painting and opposition to conceptual art. Their demonstrations are particularly associated with the Turner Prize at Tate Britain (sometimes dressed as clowns to mock the museum), but have also been carried out at other venues, including Trafalgar Square and the Saatchi Gallery. There have also been other protests in the United States by US Stuckists, and there have been Stuckist events against the Iraq War in 2003. They have received extensive media coverage for these events both in the UK and internationally, and become possible suspects for any London art protests, as in Matthew Collings' description of the opening of Tate Modern in 2000: "Guilt-free art lovers crossed picket lines put up by envious artist-outsiders. They didn't know who was protesting out there. Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsa Dax
Elsa Dax (born 14 May 1972) is a French painter and a member of the Stuckists art movement.Milner, Frank ed. (2004), ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', p. 58, National Museums Liverpool, . Major themes in her work are myth, legend and fairytale.Buckman, David (2006), ''Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945'', p. 392, Art Dictionaries, Bristol, 2006, Life and career Elsa Dax was born in Paris, and educated at the Sorbonne where she gained an MA in cinema, Russian art studies, Constructivism and Suprematism. In 1994, she worked as a production assistant for the film '' Beyond the Clouds'', directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. In 1995 she was a librarian in the Pompidou Centre. In 1996 she was a television production assistant at the Musée d'Orsay for the film ''Whistler, an American in Paris'', directed by Edwige Kertes. In 1997, she was a production cinema assistant at the Ciné Lumière, French Institute, South Kensington, London, and the following year a television e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eamon Everall
Eamon Everall (born 6 October 1948) is an English artist and educator. He was one of the 12 founder members of the Stuckists art group.Milner, Frank ed. (2004), ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', p. 62, National Museums Liverpool, He paints in a "neo-cubist" style,Moss, Richard"Stuckist's Punk Victorian gatecrashes Walker's biennial" Culture24, 17 September 2004. Retrieved 24 November 2009. with subjects from life worked on over a long period. Life and career He was born in Aldershot, Hampshire in an army family.Buckman, David (2006), ''Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945'', p. 488, Art Dictionaries, Bristol, 2006, He spent his childhood years in the UK, Europe and Asia, and attended 14 schools, including in Germany and the Far East. The last of these were St Edmunds School, Dover, and The Harvey Grammar School, Folkestone, both in Kent, England. He studied art at the now-defunct Folkestone School of Art, and then Waltham Forest School of Art (now University of East L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolf Howard
Wolf Howard (born 7 April 1968)Evans, p.36. is an English artist, poet and filmmaker living in Rochester, Kent and was a founder member of the Stuckists art group.Milner, p.80. He is also a drummer who has played in garage and punk bands, currently as a member of The Musicians of the British Empire (MBE's) with Billy Childish. Life Simon 'Wolf' Howard was born in Strood, Kent and attended Mid-Kent College for O-levels, where he "doesn't think he got any but always tells people he got two". In 1986 he began drumming, having taught himself, and has continued to do so ever since. From 1987 for 15 years he was on the dole, except for a total of two periods of two months, one day and half-an-hour, when he was respectively sweeping an ironmonger's warehouse floor, sweeping a neon light warehouse floor, picking apples and working in a frozen shepherds-pie factory. He decided against going to art college on the basis that it would "worsen himself". He lives in Chatham, where he works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Lewis
William Lewis (born 1 August 1953) is an English artist, story-teller, poet and mythographer.Milner, Frank, ed. ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', p. 86, National Museums Liverpool 2004, . Pages 6–30, Charles Thomson's essay, "A Stuckist on Stuckism", can be found online astuckism.com He was a founder-member of The Medway Poets and of the Stuckists art group. Life and career Early life Bill Lewis was born in Maidstone, Kent, England. He attended Westborough Secondary Modern School and left in 1968 with no qualifications. In 1975, with his friend, Rob Earl, he started a series of poetry readings called ''Outcrowd'' at the Lamb pub, later renamed Drakes' Crab and Oyster House, by the River Medway in Maidstone.Milner, p. 8 Both Charles Thomson and Billy Childish, the later co-founders of the Stuckists group, read at these events.Evans, Katherine, ed. ''The Stuckists'', p. 6, Victoria Press 2000, 1970s He spent a year unloading trucks in Cheeseman department store in Mai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Absolon
Philip Absolon (born 24 November 1960) is a British artist and a founder member of the Stuckists art group,Milner, Frank, ed. ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', p. 50, National Museums Liverpool 2004, . Pages 6–30, Charles Thomson's essay, "A Stuckist on Stuckism", can be found online astuckism.com exhibiting in the group shows, including ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'' at the Walker Art Gallery in 2004,"The Stuckists Punk Victorian" , , . Retrieved 6 April 2008. and takin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter McArdle
Peter McArdle (born 17 December 1965) is an English artist, member of the Stuckists art group and gallery owner.Milner, Frank (Editor). ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', p. 96, National Museums Liverpool, 2004. . The biography ostuckism.comis based on that in the book. Life and career Peter McArdle was born in Tynemouth. He finished St. Aidan's RC School (Ashbrooke, Sunderland) in 1983, at which point he began to get sales for his paintings, which have supported him since. He gained a National Diploma in Art and Design at Newcastle College of Art and Design, 1983–85, then attended the University of Sunderland, from which he graduated in 1992. From 1992, he showed at Mark Jason Fine Art in Bond Street, London. In 1989, he was on the shortlist for the Winsor & Newton Young Artist Award. In 1997, during the Year of Visual Art, he was commissioned for work by the Tyne & Wear Development Corporation. He also received commissions from Arts Resource, Sunderland, and the City ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ella Guru
Ella Guru (born May 24, 1966) is an American painter and musician living in Hastings, East Sussex, England. She was a member of Mambo Taxi and the Voodoo Queens. In 1999, she became one of the founding members of the Stuckist art movement. Early life and education Guru (birth name Ella Drauglis) was born in the U.S. state of Ohio.Buckman, David (2006), ''Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945'', p.653, Art Dictionaries, Bristol, 2006, She did a commercial art course at Fort Hayes Career Center (1982–84) and attended Columbus College of Art and Design (1984–86), which she left because of "all the conceptual crap".Milner, Frank ed. (2004), ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', p.68, National Museums Liverpool, . See also excerpt on National Museums Liverpool web sit/ref> She graduated in fine arts from Ohio State University (1988–89), where she received the Visual Arts Award. Career From 1990 to 1991, Guru worked as a go-go dancer and stripper, and travelled to Africa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Harvey (artist)
Paul Arthur Harvey (born 7 May 1960) is a British musician and Stuckist artist, whose work was used to promote the Stuckists' 2004 show at the Liverpool Biennial.Milner, Frank ed. ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', p.74, National Museums Liverpool 2004. His paintings draw on pop art and the work of Alphonse Mucha, and often depict celebrities, including Madonna. Life and career Paul Harvey was born in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire. He attended Burton Grammar School (1971–1978) and North Staffordshire Polytechnic (1978–1982) for Foundation Art and BA (Hons) Design. In 1982, he moved to London and played in post-punk bands including Happy Refugees; in 1986 he moved to Newcastle to join Pauline Murray's band. During this time, he co-published-and-drew '' Mauretania Comics'' with comics artist Chris Reynolds, and also taught graffiti art. In 2001, he became a full-time lecturer in graphic design at North Tyneside College (now Tyne Metropolitan College, within The Creat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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