STUCKIST
TURNER DEMO
1 Dec
2008
Latest
coverage in North London Times
series (13.12.08)
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).
Contents
of site here
Tel:
020 8343 4282.
Email:stuckism@yahoo.co.uk
The
General Editor of this site is Jim Dennis.
For site policy and use of material, see here.
Above:
Stuckist Turner demo 29 Sept 2008 - Shelley Li, Edgeworth Johnstone,
Jacqueline Jones, Daniel Pincham-Phipps, Charles Thomson, Jonathon
Coudrille, Alexis Hunter.
Stuckists Turner demo 1 Dec 2008 -
night
Video by Rick Friend of Production
Friend
Stuckists
Turner demo 1 Dec 2008 - day
Video by Rick Friend of Production
Friend
Charles
Thomson, Daniel Pincham-Phipps and Laura Mathews
"Boot Serota out of the Tate" - Charles Thomson at
the demo
video
"I
love the Stuckist conspiracy theory, that Nicholas Serota is
a kind of machiavellian Skeletor who manipulates the government
and the people"
- Mark Leckey, 2008 Turner Prize winner, The
Guardian (3.12.08) Actually
the conspiracy theory, or rather reality, is that he merely
manipulates the Tate board; the government aren't interested,
and most of the people haven't a clue. See
3amamagazine
Art
critic, Jonathan Jones: "On the way in I was presented
with this lovely official-looking pack, which actually says,
'The Turner Prize is crap', and it's given you by the Stuckists."
Guardian
video (2.12.08).
Around
160 of these limited edition signed packs were presented to
guests arriving for the prize. The packs were signed and numbered.
They contained a Turner
Prize leaflet and button badge, a Serota
painting postcard, the catalogue from the Stuckists Go
West show and a reprint of an article from The Jackdaw,
online here.
In contrast to Jonathan Jones, Germaine Greer does not take
a Turner Prize pack.
Also in the picture: Daniel Pincham-Phipps (left) and Charles
Thomson (right). Stills from video by Rick Friend.
Maggie
Tran meets the Stuckist demo, Tate
site (3.12.08):
"The
first thing that I encountered as I approached the Tate Britain
were The Stuckists handing out anti flyers against it (and The
Tate). Are they there to piggyback onto the media attention
of the Prize…? I don’t even want to start going into that debate.
Amusingly they handed a flyer to Nicholas Serota (or an uncanny
lookalike) who was passing through. Posted
by Charles Thomson 4 pm, 3 Dec:
"Sir Nicholas is indeed a keen collector of our protest
material, having written to me, “we should ensure that the Tate
Archive, as the national record of art in Britain, properly
represents the contribution of the Stuckist movement to debates
about contemporary art in recent years. I have asked our Archivist
to check what material we have recording your various events
and demonstrations, particularly relating to Tate and the Turner
Prize.” You can see some stills of him taking the leaflet this
year on http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/stuck-inn-v-what-is-wrong-with-sir-nicholas-serota-part-ii/
There’s a video of him in 2006 making a helpful suggestion for
the protest leaflet’s content: http://www.stuckism.com/Videos.html#Serota
Images of this year’s demo at http://www.stuckism.com/Tate/Tate08.html
I hope this helps.
Charlotte
Appleyard on never-happy Stuckists on Huffington
Post (2.12.08)
Charlotte Appleyard is Director of Development at Outset Contemporary
Art Fund, which raises money to buy stunning works of art for
the Tate, such as an idea for a queue (only Ł20,000) and a filing
cabinet, costing a mere £15,000.
Tim
Davies, young critic competition winner, quotes Stuckists on
Turner Prize: "The work is not of sufficient quality in
terms of accomplishment, innovation or originality of thought
to warrant exhibition in a national museum." The
Guardian (1.12.08)
Why the Stuckists didn't demonstrate last year: National
Post (28.11.08)
Steven
Yates, Jane Kelly, Shelley Li, Edgeworth Johnstone.
Click
image for enlargement.
Earlier
demo: 29 Sep 2008 at Tate Britain Photos
at Turner demo 2008
From
Private Eye magazine (page 12), 17.10.08. Earlier cartoon here.
"the
mediocre standard has almost turned me into a supporter of the
Stuckists"
- Richard Brooks The
Sunday Times (4th item) (5.9.08)
Turner
Prize: the debate on the Tate site has a distinctly underwhelming
response.
Make them feel loved and post your heartfelt opposition. Debates
here.
What
is wrong with Sir Nicholas Serota? 3ammagazine, part two here
10.10.08.
Also
on heyokamagazine.com
What
is wrong with Sir Nicholas Serota? 3ammagazine,
part one here
6.10.08.
Serota
attacks Stuckists in Varsity, Cambridge Student newspaper, 3.10.08
online or pdf. Letter
in Varsity 17.10.08
pdf (page 2)
replying to Serota
Charles
Thomson, Stuckist co-founder, was on BBC London radio 94.9 FM
on Christmas Day, 7.15 - 10.00 pm, Tessa Dunlop show.
Bad
photos of drawings by Laura Mathews on her
blog 18.12.08 (see above for her in demo pics)
Charles Thomson
and Stuckism on Bloomberg
(19.11.08) Why
does David Ross, Deputy Chairman of Carphone Warehouse, have his photo
in the National Portrait Gallery collection? Evening
Standard 11.12.08.
SOUTH
AFRICA
Kari
Seid, recent founder of the first Stuckist
group in South Africa says: "Stuckism has freed me from the
bounds of the conceptual gallery centred power-seat which predominates
in contemporary art today. Before i stumbled upon the "Stuckist Manifesto"
in a bookstore in an arbitrary place in Lakeside Cape Town, I had been
in the throws of a severe Artist's Block for more that two years, and
ready to hang up my paintbrush in disillusionment forever. I identified
with the Manifesto in every way. It breathed life into my tired soul,
gave me hope and a new reason to paint again. I am NO LONGER stuckstuckSTUCK,
and am inspired to call myself a STUCKIST as all that matters to me
now is painting paintingPainting!"
AUSTRALIA
Check
out Kaye Blum's 2001 short film on the Melbourne Stuckists
Jasmine
Maddock on Yoko Ono's installation Skyladders in St. Luke's church:
"It's a concept, but it's a concept that's a bit of a
joke. It's just a bunch of stepladders. They've not actually been
painted. It doesn't say anything about Liverpool culture directly
or indirectly. It reminds me of going to a very weird jumble sale,
where everything is ladders and that's all you can buy. The space
hasn't been used adequately at all. It could have been filled
with so much more beauty."
Jasmine
Maddock on the John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize in the
Walker Art Gallery: This exhibition is great, because it's actually artwork, rather
than stepladders and videos. It's traditional art, but with a
twist. It's imaginative and creative, and it's everything that
art in Liverpool should be.
Jasmine
Maddock is the founder of The
Merseyside Stuckists and was an exhibitor in the Stuckists
An Antidote to the Ghastly Turner Prize.
ENDED
The Stuckists AN ANTIDOTE TO THE GHASTLY TURNER PRIZE
31 artists exhibit 170 paintings 6 - 29 Nov 2008 View Two Gallery 23 Mathew St, Liverpool L2 6RE, England
Thu & Fri 12 - 4 pm, Sat 12 - 5 pm (complimentary drink on
Sat pm)
or by appointment with Ken Martin. Gallery tel: 0151 2369444. Web site
here.
Map here.
The launch of An Antidote to the Ghastly Turner Prize at
View Two Gallery on 5 November as part of the
2008 Liverpool Biennial.
Video by The
Other Muswell Hill Stuckists
Stuckist
artists at the launch of An Antidote to the Ghastly Turner
Prize at View Two Gallery on 5 November.
Left
to right: Alexis Hunter, Joe Machine, Charles Thomson, Andrew
Galbraith, Paul Harvey. Foreground: Ella Guru
"Fantastic
... recommendation of the week"
- Art in Liverpool podcast
(just over half way through) 5.11.08
Chris Yates in the Bury
Times 1.11.08. Chris
Reynolds in the Rok
Comics 31.10.08
Charles
Thomson, Stuckist co-founder, was on a panel discussing "Will the
recession be good
for art?" at the
Art Festival at Hay, 5.30 pm, Sat 29 November.
Stuckism,
Remodernism and Anti-anti-art manifestos now translated into Farsi (Persian)
by Tehran Stuckist, Hamed Dehnavi. Links on manifestos
page.
Georgina
Hall paints portraits of Stuckists as a homage to the movement, Leeds
Met Uni here.
"savage
satires by Mark D, Nottingham's
own Stuckist who's sticking a rigid digit up at celebrity culture"
- Nottingham
Evening Post (24.10.08) reviewing Open at The Art Organisation gallery,
Nottingham.
ENDED
Prague Stuckists STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF NOVEMBER II
Uvízli v listopadu II Curated
by Robert Janás Ph.D 4 - 25 Nov 2008, 11 am - 4 pm
Galerie Dolmen Jakubské námestí 1, Brno, Czech
republic
Tram: lines 4,5,12,13, stop Námestí Svobody Email
artists: rjanas@centrum.cz
Artists site: www.prague-stuckists.wz.cz
Gallery site:
www.galerie-dolmen.cz
Photographs
by Robert Janás. Paintings by Jaroslav Valecka, Filip Kudrnác,
Martin Salajka,
Jirí Hauschka, Jan Spevácek, Lukáš Orlita, Katerina Pažoutová,
Barbora Lungová, Jan Karpíšek
Private
view: Tue 4 Nov, 6-9 pm
Czech
Stuckists against "Czech Turner Prize",
the Jindrich Chalupecky Prize
A Czech gallerist was impressed by a success of the
exhibition Stuck in the Middle of November which
was organized last year by the Prague Stuckists as a
counterpart to the Jindrich Chalupecky Prize, the most
important Czech art prize and the Czech equivalent to
the Turner Prize, dominated by conceptualism.
He
has decided to sponsor the exhibition of the Prague
Stuckists every year as a counterpart to the Jindrich
Chalupecky Prize, with the private view on the day of
the announcement of the winner of the Chalupecky. The
venue for an exhibition of finalists of the Chalupecky
rotates annually between Prague and Brno. In 2007, it
was hosted in Prague, this year in Brno. That´s why
Stuck in the Middle of November II is going to
be held in Brno.
Contrary
to the Chalupecky which is traditionally organised without
a catalogue, there will be one of the Stuckists exhibition
again.
2008
Prague Stuckist show below. Photos
of 2007 show on Picasa.
- News from Robert Janas (left) of the Prague Stuckists.
Billy
Childish in The
Sunday Times 12.10.08 + "influential" Stuckists.
Polly Toynbee decides
"stuckist" is a handy world in political commentary and Robert
Philpot answers back - Etymology
8.10.08
Gina Bold by Gino
Vanelli may lead to Gino Vanelli by Gina Bold, but will the same be
true of Billy Childish? Cathy Lomax's apology still awaited. All on
Von Stuck's Hot Gossip 6.10.08
SIGN
THE SEROTA PETITION
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. (You must be a British
citizen or resident in the UK.) Go
to:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/tatedirector
Leo Goatley, Stuckist artist and lawyer, writes to Culture Minister:
The Times 27.9.08. From
his letter: "The
Trustees should not be seen to act like slick corporate operators,
engineering a tax dodge" Read
the rest here.
Jonathan
Jones attacks Leo Goatley: Guardian
blog 26.9.08.
Why
don't the Chapmans donate a work to the Tate like other artists? See Pandora in
The Independent 25.9.08. White
Cube/Saatchi makes £500,000 profit from the Tate. The Tate
refuse to comment. Why? They are spending public money and should
explain to the public exactly what they are doing and why. Anyone
would think they've got something to hide. See
artnet.com
(2nd story) 19.9.08. and Artinfo
23.9.08
Sir Nicholas Serota, Tate director - more conflict of interest.
Sunday
Telegraph 2.8.07.
Funny
video of Martin Creed's crap installation at Tate Britain here.
Stuckist artist Michael Dickinson acquitted in landmark Turkish
court case over this collage (25.9.08). More here.
Abby
Jackson (left with friend), currently
in Turkey, met up with Michael Dickinson
in Istanbul after his acquittal in a prosecution
for insulting the Turkish prime minister with a collage. back
to top
Stuckism
article in Summer 2008 The Oldie magazine, p.12. Read it here.
Available from newsagents. Get three issues for £1 with this special
offer, or a sample issue from 0845 357 3613.
LATEST
SITE UPDATES
All links from this page open in a new window.
Item filed under date given (except date in bracket = date added
to site).
•Etymology
Link to sound sample of Half Man Half Biscuit's lyric (20.7.08)
•A
Dead Shark The Stuckist shark gets another airing in The New
York Sun and a new art book (19.7.08).
•Blogs
Tim Dean on how to kill Postmodernism 18.7.08. Also a meeting
with Bill Lewis c. 1999 - see 13.7.08. •
Non-English
A new page to list other language links 18.7.08
• Groups
First Stuckist group in Peru 16.7.08 •Merchandise
Bootleg manifesto and badge, also Medway Poets LP (13.7.08) •Edward
Lucie-Smith
New page 11.7.08
• Online
groups and forumsNew page. Further information welcome. 8.7.08
• Press
cuttingsScottish painters not in a Stuckist reaction to conceptual
art 3.7.08
• Turner
Prize 2008 Art Clown of the Year - Anthony Gormley proposed
by Andrew Galbraith. 3.7.08 •
Interviews
Charles Thomson interviewed by Fraser Kee Scott, director of A
Gallery. 26.6.08. •
International
news Rich Cronborg writes (Jun 08). Adelaide Stuckists speak
11.3.08 •
Tate
Ofili Scandal
Godfrey Barker in the Evening Standard on Serota and Stuckists
1.3.08 •
Gina
Bold Ex Stuckist exhibitor featured in Easy Living magazine
1.3.08 •
Charles
Williams, Wolf
Howard, Elsa
Dax and John
Bourne: new pages •
Video
songsMauretania:
Sailor Tattoo Song
by New York Stuckist Terry Marks
Stuckist
artist Paul Harvey's work follows in the footsteps of Alphonse
Mucha in new poster campaign for Job cigarette papers. See Crain's
(16.6.08) and newswire,
and Paul's work on the Job
site. A poster in situ here.
Eye
on Art: What is Stuckism? with the Stella Vine connection
by editor Ryan Slade on AlrightLondon
(2008)
Top
artists websites: 1) White Cube 2) Saatchi Gallery 3) Stuckism 4) Tracey
Emin 5) Damien Hirst -The
Times
"One
of the largest, most international and most active art sites on the
internet" - Edward
Lucie-Smith Art Review "Stuckism art is beautiful, fierce and awkward at times but
ultimately it repressents passionate, political, unafraid artists. It
is absolute, true, uncontrived art." www.somascene.com
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
Art
critic, Jonathan Jones: "On the way in I was presented
with this lovely official-looking pack, which actually says,
'The Turner Prize is crap', and it's given you by the Stuckists."
).jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
Why
don't the Chapmans donate a work to the Tate like other artists?
Pola 