''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 The Walker Art Gallery is an art gallery in Liverpool, which houses one of the largest art collections in England outside London. It is part of the National Museums Liverpool group. History of the Gallery The Walker Art Gallery's collection ...

and

Lady Lever Art Gallery The Lady Lever Art Gallery is a museum founded and built by the industrialist and philanthropist William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme and opened in 1922. The Lady Lever Art Gallery is set in the garden village of Port Sunlight, on the Wirral ...

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a popul ...

from 18 September 2004 to 20 February 2005 and was part of the 2004

Liverpool Biennial Liverpool Biennial is the largest international contemporary art festival in the United Kingdom. Every two years, the city of Liverpool hosts an extensive range of artworks, projects, and a programme of events. The biennial commissions leading ...

. 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 Iakovos "Jake" Chapman (born 1966) and Konstantinos "Dinos" Chapman (born 1962) are British visual artists, often known as the Chapman Brothers. Their subject matter tries to be deliberately shocking, including, in 2008, a series of works that ...

.Mansfield, Susan
"The artists who are glad to be stuck in their ways"
''

The Scotsman ''The Scotsman'' is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh. First established as a radical political paper in 1817, it began daily publication in 1855 and remained a broadsheet until August 2004. Its par ...

'', 28 September 2004. Retrieved 1 February 2008 The gallery posted a warning notice of some "sexual and violent" subject matter.Walker Art Gallery website
Retrieved 26 March 2006 ''

Daily Mail The ''Daily Mail'' is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper and news websitePeter Wilb"Paul Dacre of the Daily Mail: The man who hates liberal Britain", ''New Statesman'', 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) publish ...

'' journalist, Jane Kelly, exhibited a painting of

Myra Hindley The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around Manchester, England. The victims were five children—Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey, and Edward E ...

and was dismissed from her job.Wells, Matt and Cozens, Claire
"Daily Mail sacks writer who painted Hindley picture"
''

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...

'', 30 September 2004. Retrieved 1 February 2008. In 1997 the ''Daily Mail'' had condemned Britartist

Marcus Harvey Marcus Harvey (born 1963 in Leeds) is an English artist and painter, one of the Young British Artists (YBAs). Exhibitions Harvey has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including "The Führer's Cakes" at Galleria Marabini in Bologna ...

's painting ''Myra'', a portrait of Hindley made from children's hand prints, when it was exhibited at the

Sensation exhibition ''Sensation'' was an exhibition of the collection of contemporary art owned by Charles Saatchi, including many works by Young British Artists, (YBAs), which first took place 18 September – 28 December 1997 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Londo ...

in the

Royal Academy The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its pur ...

, London. Critical reaction to the show ranged from "dreadful"Searle, Adrian
"Scouse Stew"
''

'', 21 September 2004. Retrieved 1 February 2008. to "the next big thing in art".Pia, Simon. "Simon Pia's Diary: Now the Stuckists are on the move", ''

'', p.22, 22 September 2004. Retrieved fro
newsuk
15 March 2008. Sir

Nicholas Serota Sir Nicholas Andrew Serota, (born 27 April 1946) is an English art historian and curator, who served as the Director of the Tate from 1988 to 2017. He is currently Chair of Arts Council England, a role which he has held since February 2017. Se ...

, director of the

Tate Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art galleries, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. It is not a government institution, but its main sponsor is the U ...

gallery, visited the show and called it "lively". The Walker deemed it a very successful show and extended the run."The Stuckists Punk Victorian"
stuckism.com. Retrieved 9 April 2008. In 2005, the Stuckists offered 160 of the paintings as a donation to the Tate gallery. This was turned down by Serota on the grounds that the work was not of "sufficient quality".Alberge, Dalya

''

The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (fou ...

'', 28 July 2005. Retrieved 1 February 2008. The rejection stimulated a campaign by the group over purchases of trustee work by the Tate. These purchases were subsequently censured by the

Charity Commission , type = Non-ministerial government department , seal = , seal_caption = , logo = Charity Commission for England and Wales logo.svg , logo_caption = , formed = , preceding1 = , ...

.Higgins, Charlotte
"How the Tate broke the law in buying a £600,000 Ofili work"
''

'', 19 July 2006. Retrieved 1 February 2008 The Stuckists Punk Victorian 7

The Stuckists

The Stuckists were founded in 1999 by

Charles Thomson Charles Thomson (November 29, 1729 – August 16, 1824) was an Irish-born Patriot leader in Philadelphia during the American Revolution and the secretary of the Continental Congress (1774–1789) throughout its existence. As secretary, Thomson ...

and

Billy Childish Billy Childish (born Steven John Hamper, 1 December 1959) is an English painter, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer and guitarist. Since the late 1970s, Childish has been prolific in creating music, writing and visual art. He has le ...

to promote figurative painting and oppose

conceptual art Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns. Some works of conceptual art, sometimes called insta ...

. The name was derived from an insult by

Tracey Emin Tracey Karima Emin, Order of the British Empire, CBE, Associate of the Royal Academy, RA (; born 3 July 1963) is a British artist known for her autobiographical and confessional artwork. Emin produces work in a variety of media including drawi ...

. The original group of 13 artists has now grown to an international movement of over 160 groups in 40 countries. Childish left the group in 2001.

Walker Art Gallery

The main show was in a large gallery at the Walker which normally houses works from the contemporary collection. The paintings were hung in a manner akin to the "salon" style, using the whole height of the wall. "Founder and featured artists" were each given their own space, while representative works from other UK and international artists were grouped accordingly. There was also a free-standing display of work which satirised the

Tate Gallery Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art galleries, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. It is not a government institution, but its main sponsor is the U ...

and the

Turner Prize The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist. Between 1991 and 2016, only artists under the age of 50 were eligible (this restriction was removed for the 2017 award) ...

. The Gallery posted a notice: :VISITOR NOTICE: THE STUCKISTS PUNK VICTORIAN :Stuckist artists believe in "honest and uncensored expression". Their wide range of subject matter includes themes of a sexual and violent nature. Some of the images in this exhibition may not be suitable for children. The show was extended from two to five months and the Walker called it "a really, really popular show and very successful."

Lady Lever Art Gallery

A separate smaller show at the

concentrated on the theme of "Art and Artists", including Stuckist interpretations of past work by artists such as

Thomas Gainsborough Thomas Gainsborough (14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, he is considered one of the most important British artists of ...

Frans Hals Frans Hals the Elder (, , ; – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, chiefly of individual and group portraits and of genre works, who lived and worked in Haarlem. Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group ...

and

Georges Seurat Georges Pierre Seurat ( , , ; 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough su ...

. The gallery also staged the first national exhibition by the Stuckist Photographers.

Book

A 144-page book was published by

National Museums Liverpool National Museums Liverpool, formerly National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, comprises several museums and art galleries in and around Liverpool, England. All the museums and galleries in the group have free admission. The museum is a non ...

to accompany the show with 150 colour illustrations, including work by all the artists, as well as photographs showing the history of the group. A photograph from 1987 shows some of the group members in an earlier form as

The Medway Poets The Medway Poets were founded in Medway, Kent, in 1979. They were an English punk based poetry performance group and later formed the core of the first Stuckists Art Group. The members were Miriam Carney, Billy Childish, Robert Earl, Bill Lewis ...

, at which time

was associated with them. Other photographs are of demonstrations outside the

, two artists (

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. E ...

and

Sexton Ming Sexton Ming (born 1961) is a British artist, poet and musician who was a founding member of The Medway Poets (1979) and Stuckism art movement (1999). Life and career Ming was born in Gravesend, Kent, England. In 1979 he was one of the founder me ...

) getting married in drag, and

Stella Vine Stella Vine (born Melissa Jane Robson, 1969) is an English artist, who lives and works in London. Her work is figurative painting, with subjects drawn from personal life, as well as from rock stars, royalty, and other celebrities. In 2001, she ...

in the ''Vote Stuckist'' show in 2001. The book also includes two Stuckist manifestos, biographies of the artists, a section on Stuckist photographers, and two essays, "A Stuckist on Stuckism" by group co-founder,

and "Manifestos From the Edge and Beyond" by art historian

Paul O'Keefe Paul O'Keefe (born April 27, 1951) is an American actor best known for his work as Ross Lane, the younger brother of Patty Duke's character Patty Lane in the television series ''The Patty Duke Show'' and for the movie '' The Daydreamer''. Born i ...

. The book was edited by Frank Milner and designed by March Design, Liverpool.

Cover

The image on the cover is a painting by

Paul Harvey Paul Harvey Aurandt (September 4, 1918 – February 28, 2009) was an American radio broadcaster for ABC News Radio. He broadcast ''News and Comment'' on mornings and mid-days on weekdays and at noon on Saturdays and also his famous ''The Rest o ...

(acrylic on canvas, 212.5 × 75.5 cm), and was originally intended to accompany a previous show, the ''Stuckists Real Turner Prize Show 2003'', when the placard held by the main figure read "SEROTA NEEDS A GOOD SPANKING".Milner, Frank ed. ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', p.74,

, 2004. Due to an argument between Harvey and another artist, Gina Bold, the painting was not used and the show was cancelled. Some months later the placard was repainted to promote the Walker show. The main figure is based on a photograph of the model, musician and DJ Emily Mann, taken by Charles Thomson.

A Stuckist on Stuckism

Thomson's essay starts with an account of a confrontation with Sir

Trafalgar Square Trafalgar Square ( ) is a public square in the City of Westminster, Central London, laid out in the early 19th century around the area formerly known as Charing Cross. At its centre is a high column bearing a statue of Admiral Nelson commemo ...

in 2001 on the occasion of a Stuckist demonstration against the installation of

Rachel Whiteread Dame Rachel Whiteread (born 20 April 1963) is an English artist who primarily produces sculptures, which typically take the form of casts. She was the first woman to win the annual Turner Prize in 1993. Whiteread was one of the Young British Ar ...

's sculpture ''Monument''.Milner, Frank, ed. ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', pp.6-30,

2004, . These pages contain

's essay, "A Stuckist on Stuckism", which is online a
stuckism.com
It then traces the history of the group from origins in 1979 to its foundation in 1999, reviews "A Dysfunctional Decade of Saatchi Art", describes Stuckist demonstrations at the

and gives background on artists who have left the Stuckists—co-founder

and Gina Bold. A final section puts the group in context in a wider historical view with a proposition that the development of

Modernism Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western world, Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new fo ...

has been a "story of fragmentation" and that it is necessary to provide a holistic approach. A passage by

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 ...

is quoted to explain Stuckist art:

Manifestos From the Edge

Paul O'Keefe's essay, ''Manifestos from the Edge and Beyond'', is in three sections. The first treats the history of Modernism in Britain and the scorn that greeted the 1910

Post-impressionist Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction ag ...

exhibition. He describes the emergence of the homegrown radical movement, the

Vorticists Vorticism was a London-based Modernism, modernist art movement formed in 1914 by the writer and artist Wyndham Lewis. The movement was partially inspired by Cubism and was introduced to the public by means of the publication of the Vorticist mani ...

and how they clashed on one occasion, using brass knuckledusters, with rival avant-garde group the Italian

Futurists Futurists (also known as futurologists, prospectivists, foresight practitioners and horizon scanners) are people whose specialty or interest is futurology or the attempt to systematically explore predictions and possibilities abou ...

. He includes

President,

Alfred Munnings Sir Alfred James Munnings, (8 October 1878 – 17 July 1959) was known as one of England's finest painters of horses, and as an outspoken critic of Modernism. Engaged by Lord Beaverbrook's Canadian War Memorials Fund, he earned several prest ...

', notorious 1949 speech, wanting to kick

Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...

. He traces the evolution of radicalism into the new establishment, setting the scene for the Stuckist challenge to it.Milner, Frank, ed. ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', pp.32-48,

2004, .

The second section is an analysis of a BBC2 ''Newsnight'' programme on 19 October 1999 hosted by

Jeremy Paxman Jeremy Dickson Paxman (born 11 May 1950) is an English broadcaster, journalist, author, and television presenter. Born in Leeds, Paxman was educated at Malvern College and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he edited the undergraduate ne ...

with Charles Thomson attacking that year's Turner Prize and artist Brad Lochore defending it. Thomson was displaying Stuckist paintings, while Lochore had brought along a plastic detergent bottle on a cardboard plinth. At one stage Lochore states, "if people say it's art, it's art". Paxman asks, "So you can say anything is art?" and Lochore replies, "You could say everything is art..." At this point Thomson, off-screen, can be heard to say, "Is my shoe art?" while at the same time his shoe appears in front of Lochore, who observes, "If you say it is. I have to judge it on those terms." Thomson's response is, "I've never heard anything so ludicrous in my life before." Part three describes the Stuckists' line of argument as "devastating in its capacity to demolish the pretensions of Conceptualism" and cites

Damien Hirst Damien Steven Hirst (; né Brennan; born 7 June 1965) is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingd ...

's observation that "The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel" (one of Hirst's assistants). O'Keefe's conclusion remains undecided as to "whether the Momart warehouse blaze indeed represents the funeral pyre of

BritArt The Young British Artists, or YBAs—also referred to as Brit artists and Britart—is a loose group of visual artists who first began to exhibit together in London in 1988. Many of the YBA artists graduated from the BA Fine Art course at Goldsm ...

" and as to the future of Stuckism's role "from its outpost on the edge".

''Daily Mail''

'' feature writer Jane Kelly, who is also a Stuckist artist, was sacked by the paper after exhibiting her painting ''If We Could Undo Psychosis 2'' in the show. The painting shows a family group of mother and two children with child-killer

substituted for the father and holding a teddy bear. Thomson said, "It is not glorifying Myra Hindley, it's called psychosis—can anyone ever be healed is the question posed by this painting." Kelly's sacking was reported on the front page of ''

'', which described how the ''Daily Mail'' had welcomed a previous work by Kelly showing London Mayor

Ken Livingstone Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born 17 June 1945) is an English politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as Mayor of London from the creation of the office i ...

in the context of the 1944 Stauffenberg plot against

Hitler Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany from 1933 until his death in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then ...

, and commented: :"Stuckism, the art movement founded by Tracey Emin's former boyfriend to oppose the pretensions of Britart, claims to advocate 'honest, uncensored expression'. Unfortunately, the Daily Mail does not appear to share those values". The ''Daily Mails managing editor, Lawrence Sear, who dismissed Kelly, described as "unmitigated rubbish" the claim that the loss of her job was related to her artwork and that "the departure of Jane Kelly is a matter only for her and the newspaper."

Reaction

There was a very diverse reaction to the show.

Adrian Searle Adrian Searle (born 1953 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire) is the chief art critic of ''The Guardian'' newspaper in Britain, and has been writing for the paper since 1996. Previously he was a painter. Life and career Searle studied at the St ...

, art critic of ''The Guardian'' called it "dreadful" and Tate Chairman,

Paul Myners Paul Myners, Baron Myners, (1 April 1948 – 16 January 2022) was a British businessman and politician. In October 2008 he was elevated to the House of Lords as a life peer and was appointed City Minister in the Labour Government of Gordon B ...

denounced it as "a travesty". " Young British Artist"

Gavin Turk Gavin Turk (born 1967) is a British artist from Guildford in Surrey, and is considered to be one of the Young British Artists.Tate Modern. (2009)'Pop Life: Art in a Material World' Retrieved 14 August 2012. Turk's oeuvre deals with issues of aut ...

advised in a BBC interview that people should try to see the show. The sexual and violent content of some of the paintings was commented on.

Mark Lawson Mark Gerard Lawson is an English journalist, broadcaster and author. Specialising in culture and the arts, he is best known for presenting the flagship BBC Radio 4 arts programme ''Front Row (radio programme), Front Row'' between 1998 and 2014. ...

on BBC Radio 4 warned, with particular reference to a painting by

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 ...

of two sailors having anal sex, that the paintings might cause controversy, as they were "certainly not ... conventional" but contained "very bold and explicit images". Joe Machine, Sea Shanty

Susan Mansfield in ''The Scotsman'' said they were "far from traditional or conservative" and "as shocking as anything

could produce", adding "the Stuckists have a strong philosophical base". Simon Pia, another writer in the same paper, predicted the group would be "the next big thing in art". A review in the inflight magazine ''Velocity'' evaluated the work as "a worthy argument for painting as the fundamental medium of artistic expression ... a refreshing willingness to be understood in today's world of oblique messages." ''

The Sunday Times ''The Sunday Times'' is a British newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category. It was founded in 1821 as ''The New Observer''. It is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News UK, whi ...

'' saw the presence of the work in an established national museum as "another step on the road to critical acceptance", as did the museum review site ''24hourmuseum'': ""They’ve spent years fighting the establishment. Now ... the Stuckists have been invited to join it."

Fringe shows

There were also 6 simultaneous fringe shows: *''"Stigmata" or "Censorious": The Stuckists Punk Victorian'' at the Rivington Gallery in London *''Stuck in the Country'' at the Brockdam Gallery in

Northumberland Northumberland () is a county in Northern England, one of two counties in England which border with Scotland. Notable landmarks in the county include Alnwick Castle, Bamburgh Castle, Hadrian's Wall and Hexham Abbey. It is bordered by land on ...

*''Stuckists in the Walker - Stuckists in Lewenhagen'' at the Stuckism Centre in Germany *''Stuckist Punk Victorian Lite If You Can't Be Bothered to Go to Liverpool'' in

Edinburgh Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian ...

*''More of the Welsh Bit of the Stuckists Punk Victorian'' at the Stuckism Centre in Wales *''The Stuckists Punk Victorian In the Toilet'' in

New Haven New Haven is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut and is part of the New York City metropolitan area. With a population of 134,02 ...

, US. The Rivington Gallery issued a statement from its Director, Harold Werner Rubin that he was showing work from private collections by ex-Stuckists,

and Gina Bold, which had been barred from the Walker show because of their objection, as well as a painting ''Charity Work'' by Philip Absolon which had also been excluded. ''The Scotsman'' reported that Stella Vine had threatened to commit suicide if her work was in the Stuckist show.

Serota's visit and Tate donation

Sir Nicholas Serota was dubbed the "least likely visitor" to the show, which included a wall of work satirising the Tate and Serota himself, such as Thomson's ''

Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision ''Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision'' is one of the paintings that was made as a part of the Stuckism art movement,Cripps, Charlotte"Visual arts: Saying knickers to Sir Nicholas ''The Independent'', 7 September 2004. Retrieved fr ...

''.Taylor, John Russell
"Lord have Mersey"
''

'', 29 September 2004. Retrieved 22 March 2008. In fact, he did visit and met the artists, describing the work as "lively". In 2005, the Stuckists offered a donation of 160 paintings from the show with a value of £500,000 to the Tate. This offer was rejected by Serota, who wrote, "the works in question have been reviewed by our curators and presented to the Board of Trustees ... We do not feel that the work is of sufficient quality in terms of accomplishment, innovation or originality of thought to warrant preservation in perpetuity in the national collection." ''

'' reported: Thomson said, "The Tate ... rejected Modernism and artists such as Matisse and Picasso ... Now it has lost the nation the prime works of an international movement founded in Britain. A direct consequence of this was a media campaign Thomson led over the

's purchase of its trustee

Chris Ofili Christopher Ofili, (born 10 October 1968) is a British Turner Prize-winning painter who is best known for his paintings incorporating elephant dung. He was one of the Young British Artists. Since 2005, Ofili has been living and working in Trin ...

's work, ''

The Upper Room The Cenacle (from the Latin , "dining room"), also known as the Upper Room (from the Koine Greek and , both meaning "upper room"), is a room in Mount Zion in Jerusalem, just outside the Old City walls, traditionally held to be the site of t ...

''."How Ageing Art Punks Got Stuck into Tate's Serota", ''The Observer'', 11 December 2005
Retrieved 1 February 2008 In 2006 the

Charity Commission , type = Non-ministerial government department , seal = , seal_caption = , logo = Charity Commission for England and Wales logo.svg , logo_caption = , formed = , preceding1 = , ...

censured the Tate and ruled that it had broken the law in making the purchase and similar trustee purchases during the previous 50 years. ''

The Daily Telegraph ''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally. It was fo ...

'' called the verdict "one of the most serious indictments of the running of one of the nation's major cultural institutions in living memory."Reynolds, Nigel
"Tate broke charity laws by buying art from its trustees"
''

'', 21 July 2006. Retrieved 22 April 2008.

Artists

Featured artists

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 ...

, Frances Castle,

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.B ...

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, cu ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mandy McCartin Mandy McCartin (born 10 April 1958) is an English artist based in London, a "proud butch lesbian" and DJ "classic soul fanatic". Life and work Mandy McCartin was born in Sheffield, England, and went to North East London Polytechnic (now the U ...

, Charles Williams

UK artists

Stephen Coots, David John Beesley, Dan Belton, John Bourne,

Jonathon Coudrille Jonathon Xavier Coudrille (born Jonathan Coudrill; November 1945) is an English artist, musician and writer. He has lived from a young age on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, an area with which he is still closely associated. His father was th ...

, Michelle England, Stephen Howarth,

Naive John Naive John (born Ian Wylie; 18 October 1962) is a British artist and figurative painter. His work shows attention to detail with subjects that combine elements from popular culture alongside the mythic and mundane. He has also in the past been ...

Rachel Jordan Rachel Jordan (born 8 May 1968) is a British artist and has been a frequent guest exhibitor with the Stuckists.Milner, Frank ed. ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', p. 126, National Museums Liverpool 2004, For Stuckist shows she created satir ...

, Jane Kelly, Emily Mann, Daniel Pincham-Phipps, Matthew Robinson, Mary von Stockhausen.

International artists

Godfrey Blow Godfrey Blow (born 6 October 1948) is an artist based in Kalamunda, Western Australia. He is the founder of the Perth Stuckists. Life and art Godfrey Blow was born in North Hykeham, Lincolnshire, England on the same day as fellow Stuckist ...

, J Todd Dockery, Brett Hamil, Tony Juliano, ZF Lively,

Terry Marks Terry Marks is a Stuckist artist in New York City. She was one of the US artists in the show '' The Stuckists Punk Victorian'' at the Walker Art Gallery during the 2004 Liverpool Biennial. She is also a tattooist and actor for film and televi ...

Jesse Richards Jesse Richards (born July 17, 1975) is a painter, filmmaker and photographer from New Haven, Connecticut and was affiliated with the international movement Stuckism. He has been described as "one of the most provocative names in American underg ...

Photographers

Andy Bullock, Larry Dunstan,

Gallery

Image:Philip Absolon. Job Club.jpg,

. ''Job Club'' Image:Eamon Everall. Olympia.jpg,

. ''A Newer Olympia'' Image:Ella Guru, Sexton Ming with Face Pack.jpg,

. ''Facepack'' Image:Paul Harvey, Madonna.jpg,

. ''Madonna'' Image:Bill Lewis. God Is an Atheist - She Doesn't Believe in Me.jpg,

. ''God Is an Atheist: She Doesn't Believe in Me'' Image:Joe Machine, My Grandfather Will Fight You.jpg,

. ''My Grandfather Will Fight You'' Image:Peter McArdle, An Annunciation.jpg,

. ''On a Theme of Annunciation'' Image:Charles Thomson. A Long Way From Greece.jpg,

. ''A Long Way from Greece'' Image:John Bourne. Aeroplane.jpg, John Bourne. ''Aeroplane'' Image:Elsa Dax. Venus and Mars.jpg,

. ''Venus and Mars'' Image:Jane Kelly. Psychosis 1.jpg, Jane Kelly. ''If We Could Undo Psychosis 1'' Image:Wolf Howard. El Toro.jpg,

. ''El Toro''

Notes and references

External links

The show on Stuckism website

The show on the Walker Gallery websiteList of Stuckist paintings rejected by the Tate (Excel doc)BBC interview with Bill Lewis at the show
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