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Stuckism () is an international art movement founded in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figurative painting as opposed to conceptual art."Glossary: Stuckism"
''''. Retrieved 16 September 2009.
By May 2017 the initial group of 13 British artists had expanded to 236 groups in 52 countries."Stuckism International"
stuckism.com. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
Childish and Thomson have issued several manifestos. The first one was ''The Stuckists'', consisting of 20 points starting with "Stuckism is a quest for
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Charles Thomson (artist)
Charles Thomson (born 6 February 1953) is an English artist, poet and photographer. In the early 1980s he was a member of The Medway Poets. In 1999 he named and co-founded the Stuckists art movement with Billy Childish. He has curated Stuckist shows, organised demonstrations against the Turner Prize, run an art gallery, stood for parliament and reported Charles Saatchi to the OFT. He is frequently quoted in the media as an opponent of conceptual art. He was briefly married to artist Stella Vine. Early life Charles Thomson was born in Romford, Essex, and educated at Brentwood School, Essex, where he was a classmate of Douglas Adams. While still at school, he organised mixed media arts events and contributed to ''Broadsheet'', a magazine edited by Paul Neil Milne Johnstone and published by ''Artsphere'', a school arts group. Outside school, he started the Havering Arts Lab. this resulted in a headline "Sex Orgy Tale—Group Banned" in the local ''Havering Express'' newspape ...
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John Bourne (artist)
John Bourne (born 1943) is a British artist and painter, living and working in Wales, and a member of the Stuckists art movement.Milner, Frank, ed. ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', p. 118, National Museums Liverpool 2004, . Charles Thomson's essay, "A Stuckist on Stuckism", pages 6–30, can be found online astuckism.com He founded the Wrexham Stuckists group in 2001
stuckism.com. Retrieved 8 April 2008.
and has been exhibited in the group's shows since then, including '' The Stuckists Punk Victorian''."John Bourne"
stuckism.com. Retrieved 8 April 2008.
He has also taken part in
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Udaiyan
Stuckism is an international anti-conceptual art and pro-figurative art, figurative painting art movement founded by Charles Thomson (artist), Charles Thomson and Billy Childish in 1999."Glossary: Stuckism"
, Tate. Retrieved 16 September 2009.
The founding group in London had 13 members. In 2000, Regan Tamanui started a group in Melbourne, Australia, and it was decided that other artists should be free to start their own groups also, named after their locality.Charles Thomson (artist), Thomson, Charles, "A Stuckist on Stuckism" in: Milner, Frank, ed. ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', p.20, National Museums Liverpool 2004, . Essay available online a

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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 ...
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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 en ...
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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 Cr ...
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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 ...
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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"
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Stephen Howarth
Stephen Purbeck Howarth (born 23 July 1981), known as S.P., is a poet, Stuckist artist and actor. He was expelled from college for his paintings. He has demonstrated against the Turner prize at the Tate gallery. Life and work Stephen Howarth was born in Lewisham, London and educated at St Christopher School, Letchworth. He is severely dyslexic."'Temptations of a Poet', SP Howarth"
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In 2000, he attended

Mark D
Mark D, born Mark Randall,Deedes, Henry ''The Independent'', 13 February 2008. Retrieved 13 February 2008. is a British punk musician (guitarist and songwriter). He is also associated with the Stuckist group of artists. Mark D was born and spent his childhood in Peterborough. He now lives in Nottingham. Music From university onwards, Mark D (D standing for "degenerate") played in various bands including the Fat Tulips, Confetti (when he was known as David), the Pleasure Heads (when he was known as Mark Randyhead), Oscar, Servalan and Sundress, and appeared on dozens of releases. He published and edited fanzines, including the underground C86 fanzine ''Two Pint Take Home''. He is a co-owner of Heaven Records."Mark D: Biog/text"
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The Fat Tulips were formed in 1987 and have been described a ...
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Joe Machine
Joe Machine (born Joseph Stokes,Buckman, David (2006), ''Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945'', p. 1018, Art Dictionaries, Bristol, 2006, 6 April 1973) is an English artist, poet and writer. He is a founding member of the Stuckists art group.Milner, Frank ed. (2004), ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', p. 90, National Museums Liverpool, Life Joseph Machine was born in Chatham, Kent, and comes from a Romany background on the Isle of Sheppey. In 1988 Machine was sent to Alston House Approved School, Rochester, for the theft of scrap material, and the following year to Dover Borstal for young offenders, after burgling a greengrocers in Leysdown (Isle of Sheppey). He spent time claiming benefits and running the family business, an amusement arcade in Leysdown, as well as breeding Rottweiler dogs and working as a bouncer in South London night clubs. He started painting around 1988 and has not had any formal college art training. He has described creativity as the way ou ...
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Rémy Noë
Rémy Noë (born 8 December 1974), is a British painter, a member of the international art movement Stuckism and co-founder of the Maidstone Stuckists.Milner, Frank ed. (2004), ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', p.128, National Museums Liverpool, . Life and work Rémy Noë was born in Bromley, Kent, England, to a French and Dutch father and English mother, but has lived in Medway for most of their life. From 1986 to 1993, he attended Vinters Boys School, described as "a living hell", and Chatham Grammar School for Boys. 1993-97, attended Canterbury College of Art for Foundation and BA in Fine Art, but was forced to leave by the Department of Social Security. From 1997 to 1998, resumed a part-time BA, but was expelled for condemning "conceptual shit" and also threatened with arrest. Since then, Noë has worked in their father's garage, Medway Citroen. During this time they returned to studies at Canterbury Christ Church College, and obtained a Master in Fine Arts degree in ...
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