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Stuckism

Stuckism (/ˈstʌkɪzəm/) is an international art movement founded in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figurative painting as opposed to conceptual art.[2][3] By May 2017 the initial group of 13 British artists had expanded to 236 groups in 52 countries.[4]

Stuckism
Formation28 January 1999; 25 years ago (1999-01-28)[1]
Location
  • Worldwide
Membership
233 groups
Founders
Billy Childish
Charles Thomson
Members of first group
Philip Absolon, Eamon Everall, Ella Guru, Bill Lewis, Joe Machine, Charles Williams, Wolf Howard, Sexton Ming, Frances Castle, Sheila Clarke, Sanchia Lewis
Later members
Elsa Dax, Guy Denning, Michael Dickinson, Robert Janás, Odysseus Yakoumakis, John Bourne, Mark D, Paul Harvey, Stephen Howarth, Alexis Hunter, Abby Jackson, Naive John, Rachel Jordan, Jane Kelly, Peter McArdle, Mandy McCartin, Peter Murphy, Rémy Noë, Udaiyan, Jeffrey Scott Holland, Frank Kozik, Terry Marks, Nicholas Watson, Godfrey Blow, Asim Butt, Mike Mayhew, Regan Tamanui, Jonathon Coudrille
Websitestuckism.com

Childish and Thomson have issued several manifestos. The first one was The Stuckists, consisting of 20 points starting with "Stuckism is a quest for authenticity".[5] Remodernism, the other well-known manifesto of the movement, opposes the deconstruction and irony of postmodernism in favor of what Stuckists refer to as the "spirituality" of the artist.[6] In another manifesto they define themselves as anti-anti-art[7] which is against anti-art and for what they consider conventional art.[8]

After exhibiting in small galleries in Shoreditch, London, the Stuckists' first show in a major public museum was held in 2004 at the Walker Art Gallery, as part of the Liverpool Biennial. The group has demonstrated annually at Tate Britain against the Turner Prize since 2000, sometimes dressed in clown costumes. They have also come out in opposition to the Charles Saatchi-patronised Young British Artists.[9][10]

Although painting is the dominant artistic form of Stuckism, artists using other media such as photography, sculpture, film and collage have also joined, and share the Stuckist opposition to conceptualism and "ego-art."[11]

Name, founding and origin edit

 
Sexton Ming, Tracey Emin, Charles Thomson, Billy Childish and musician Russell Wilkinson at the Rochester Adult Education Centre to record The Medway Poets LP, 11 December 1987.

The name "Stuckism" was coined in January 1999 by Charles Thomson in response to a poem read to him several times by Billy Childish. In it, Childish recites that his former girlfriend, Tracey Emin had said he was "stuck! stuck! stuck!" with his art, poetry and music.[12] Later that month, Thomson approached Childish with a view to co-founding an art group called Stuckism, which Childish agreed to, on the basis that Thomson would do the work for the group, as Childish already had a full schedule.[12]

There were eleven other founding members: Philip Absolon, Frances Castle, Sheila Clark, Eamon Everall, Ella Guru, Wolf Howard, Bill Lewis, Sanchia Lewis, Joe Machine, Sexton Ming, and Charles Williams.[12] The membership has evolved since its founding through creative collaborations:[13] the group was originally promoted as working in paint, but members have since worked in various other media, including poetry, fiction, performance, photography, film and music.[12]

In 1979, Thomson, Childish, Bill Lewis and Ming were members of The Medway Poets performance group, to which Absolon and Sanchia Lewis had earlier contributed.[12] Peter Waite's Rochester Pottery staged a series of solo painting shows.[12] In 1982, TVS broadcast a documentary on the poets.[12] That year, Emin, then a fashion student, and Childish started a relationship; her writing was edited by Bill Lewis, printed by Thomson and published by Childish.[12] Group members published dozens of works.[12] The poetry group dispersed after two years, reconvening in 1987 to record The Medway Poets LP.[12] Clark, Howard and Machine became involved over the following years.[12] Thomson got to know Williams, who was a local art student and whose girlfriend was a friend of Emin; Thomson also met Everall.[12] During the foundation of the group, Ming brought in his girlfriend, Guru, who in turn invited Castle.[12]

Manifestos edit

 
The first Stuckists group of 13 artists at the Real Turner Prize Show, Pure Gallery, Shoreditch, London, in October 2000

In August 1999, Childish and Thomson wrote The Stuckists manifesto[5] which stress the value of painting as a medium, its use for communication, and the expression of emotion and experience – as opposed to what Stuckists see as the superficial novelty, nihilism and irony of conceptual art and postmodernism. The most contentious statement in the manifesto is: "Artists who don't paint aren't artists".[14]

The second and third manifestos, An Open Letter to Sir Nicholas Serota and Remodernism respectively, were sent to the director of the Tate, Nicholas Serota. He sent a brief reply: "Thank you for your open letter dated 6 March. You will not be surprised to learn that I have no comment to make on your letter, or your manifesto 'Remodernism'."[15]

In the Remodernism manifesto, the Stuckists declared that they aimed to replace postmodernism with remodernism, a period of renewed spiritual (as opposed to religious) values in art, culture and society. Other manifestos have included Handy Hints, Anti-anti-art, The Cappuccino writer and the Idiocy of Contemporary Writing, The Turner Prize, The Decreptitude of the Critic and Stuckist critique of Damien Hirst.

In Anti-anti-art, the Stuckists outlined their opposition to what is known as "anti-art".[8] Stuckists claim that conceptual art is justified by the work of Marcel Duchamp, but that Duchamp's work is "anti-art by intent and effect". The Stuckists feel that "Duchamp's work was a protest against the stale, unthinking artistic establishment of his day", while "the great (but wholly unintentional) irony of postmodernism is that it is a direct equivalent of the conformist, unoriginal establishment that Duchamp attacked in the first place".[16]

Manifestos have been written by other Stuckists, including the Students for Stuckism group. An "Underage Stuckists" group was founded in 2006 with a manifesto for teenagers written by two 16-year-olds, Liv Soul and Rebekah Maybury, on MySpace.[17] In 2009, a group calling itself The Other Muswell Hill Stuckists published The Founding, Manifesto and Rules of The Other Muswell Hill Stuckists.[18]

Growth in the UK edit

 
Stuck! Stuck! Stuck!, the first Stuckist show, 1999

In July 1999, the Stuckists were first mentioned in the media, in an article in The Evening Standard and soon gained other coverage, helped by press interest in Tracey Emin, who had been nominated for the Turner Prize.[19][20]

The first Stuckist show was Stuck! Stuck! Stuck! in September 1999 in Joe Crompton's in Shoreditch Gallery 108 (now defunct), followed by The Resignation of Sir Nicholas Serota. In 2000 they staged The Real Turner Prize Show at the same time as the Tate Gallery's Turner Prize exhibition.[21]

A "Students for Stuckism" group was founded in 2000 by students from Camberwell College of Arts, who staged their own exhibition. S.P. Howarth was expelled from the painting degree course at Camberwell college for his paintings,[22] and had the first solo exhibit at the Stuckism International Gallery in 2002, named I Don't Want a Painting Degree if it Means Not Painting.[23]

Thomson stood as a Stuckist candidate for the 2001 British General Election, in the constituency of Islington South & Finsbury, against Chris Smith, the then Secretary of State for Culture. He picked up 108 votes (0.4%).[24][25] Childish left the group at this time because he objected to Thomson's leadership.[26][27]

 
Stuckism International Gallery

From 2002 to 2005 Thomson ran the Stuckism International Centre and Gallery in Shoreditch, London. In 2003, under the title A Dead Shark Isn't Art, the gallery exhibited a shark which had first been put on public display in 1989 (two years before Damien Hirst's) by Eddie Saunders in his Shoreditch shop, JD Electrical Supplies. It was suggested that Hirst may have seen this and copied it.[28]

In 2003 they reported Charles Saatchi to the UK Office of Fair Trading, complaining that he had an effective monopoly on art. The complaint was not upheld.[29] In 2003, an allied group, Stuckism Photography, was founded by Larry Dunstan and Andy Bullock. In 2005 the Stuckists offered a donation of 175 paintings from the Walker show to the Tate, but it was rejected by the Tate's trustees.[30]

In August 2005 Thomson alerted the press to the fact that the Tate had purchased a work by Chris Ofili, The Upper Room, for £705,000 while the artist was a serving Tate trustee.[31][32] Fraser Kee Scott, owner of A Gallery, demonstrated with the Stuckists outside the Tate Gallery against the gallery's purchase of The Upper Room. Scott said in The Daily Telegraph that the Tate Gallery's chairman, Paul Myners, was hypocritical for refusing to divulge the price paid. Ofili had asked other artists to donate work to the gallery.[33] In July 2006 the Charity Commission censured the gallery for acting outside its legal powers.[34] Sir Nicholas Serota stated that the Stuckists had "acted in the public interest".[35]

In October 2006, the Stuckists staged their first exhibition, Go West, in a commercial West End gallery, Spectrum London,[36] signalling their entry as "major players" in the art world.[37]

 
Paul Harvey. Charles Saatchi, 2006.

An international symposium on Stuckism took place in October 2006 at the Liverpool John Moores University during the Liverpool Biennial. The programme was led by Naive John, founder of the Liverpool Stuckists. There was an accompanying exhibition in the 68 Hope Gallery at Liverpool School of Art and Design (John Moores University Gallery).[38]

By 2006 there were 63 Stuckist groups in the UK. Members include Naive John, Mark D, Elsa Dax, Paul Harvey, Jane Kelly, Udaiyan, Peter McArdle, Peter Murphy, Rachel Jordan, Guy Denning and Abby Jackson. John Bourne opened Stuckism Wales at his home, a permanent exhibition of (mainly Welsh) paintings. Mandy McCartin is a regular guest artist.[39]

In 2010, Paul Harvey's painting of Charles Saatchi was banned from the window display of the Artspace Gallery in Maddox Street, London, on the grounds that it was "too controversial for the area".[40][41] It was the centrepiece of the show, Stuckist Clowns Doing Their Dirty Work, the first exhibition of the Stuckists in Mayfair,[41] and depicted Saatchi with a sheep at his feet and a halo made from a cheese wrapper.[42] The Saatchi Gallery said that Saatchi "would not have any problem" with the painting's display.[42] The gallery announced they were shutting down the show.[41] Harvey said, "I did it to make Saatchi look friendly and human. It's a ludicrous decision".[42] The Stuckists protested with emails to the gallery.[43] Subsequently, the painting was reinstated and the show continued.[43]

Demonstrations edit

 
Outside the Turner Prize, Tate Britain, 2005: Stuckists demonstrate against the purchase of Chris Ofili's The Upper Room. The cutout is Tate chairman Paul Myners.

The Stuckists gained significant media coverage for eight years of protests (2000–2006 and 2008) outside Tate Britain against the Turner Prize, sometimes dressed as clowns. In 2001 they demonstrated in Trafalgar Square at the unveiling of Rachel Whiteread's Monument. In 2002, they carried a coffin marked The Death of Conceptual Art to the White Cube Gallery.[44][45] In 2004 outside the launch of The Triumph of Painting at the Saatchi Gallery they wore tall hats with Charles Saatchi's face emblazoned and carried placards claiming that Saatchi had copied their ideas.[46]

Events outside Britain have included The Clown Trial of President Bush held in New Haven in 2003 to protest against the Iraq War. Michael Dickinson has exhibited political and satirical collages in Turkey for which he was arrested,[47] and charged, but acquitted of any crime—an outcome which was seen to have positive implications for Turkey's relationship with the European Union.[48]

The Stuckists Punk Victorian edit

 
Cover of the book The Stuckists Punk Victorian

The Stuckists Punk Victorian was the first national gallery exhibition of Stuckist art. It was held at the Walker Art Gallery and Lady Lever Art Gallery and was part of the 2004 Liverpool Biennial. It consisted of over 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 an accompanying exhibition of Stuckist photographers. A book, The Stuckists Punk Victorian, was published to accompany the exhibition. Daily Mail journalist Jane Kelly exhibited a painting of Myra Hindley in the show, which may have been the cause of her dismissal from her job.[49]

A Gallery edit

 
The A Gallery, Wimbledon, July 2007. Paintings by Peter McArdle (left) and Paul Harvey, sculpture by Adrian Bannister.

In July 2007, the Stuckists held an exhibition at A Gallery, I Won't Have Sex with You as long as We're Married,[50][51] titled after words apparently said to Thomson by his ex-wife, Stella Vine on their wedding night.[51] The show coincided with the opening of Vine's major show at Modern Art Oxford and was prompted by Thomson's anger that the material promoting her show did not mention her time with the Stuckists.[50] Tate chairman Paul Myners visited both shows.[52]

Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision edit

 
Charles Thomson. Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision, 2000
 
Demonstration against the Turner Prize, 2006. Left to right: Federico Penteado, Charles Thomson, John Bourne.

As Charlotte Cripps of The Independent wrote, Charles Thomson's painting Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision is one of the best known paintings to come out of the Stuckist movement,[45] and as Jane Morris wrote in The Guardian it's a likely "signature piece" for the movement,[53] standing for its opposition to conceptual art. Painted in 2000, the piece has been exhibited in later Stuckist shows, and featured on placards in Stuckist demonstrations against the Turner Prize. It depicts Sir Nicholas Serota, Director of the Tate Gallery and the usual chairman of the Turner Prize jury, and satirises Young British Artist Tracey Emin's installation, My Bed, consisting of her bed and objects, including knickers, which she exhibited in 1999 as a Turner Prize nominee.[54]

International movement edit

In 2000 Regan Tamanui started the first Stuckist group outside Britain in Melbourne, Australia, and it was decided that other artists should be free to start their own groups also, named after their locality.[55] Stuckism has since grown into an international art movement[2] of 233 groups in 52 countries, as of July 2012.[4]

Africa edit

Mafa Bamba founded The Abidgan Stuckists in 2001 in Ivory Coast and Kari Seid founded The Cape Town Stuckists in 2008 in South Africa.[56]

America edit

 
Charles Thomson with US Stuckists, Nicholas Watson, Terry Marks, Marisa Shepherd, Jesse Richards and Catherine Chow, 2001

In 2000, Susan Constanse founded the first U.S. group The Pittsburgh Stuckists in Pittsburgh[56]—the second group to be founded outside the UK. This was announced in the In Pittsburgh Weekly, 1 November 2000: "The new word in art is Stuckism. A Stuckist paints their life, mind and soul with no pretensions and no excuses."[57] By 2011 there were 44 U.S. Stuckist groups. There have been Stuckist shows and demonstrations in the U.S., and American Stuckists have also exhibited in international Stuckist shows abroad. U.S. Stuckists include Ron Throop, Jeffrey Scott Holland, Frank Kozik and Terry Marks.[56] There are also 4 Stuckist groups in Canada including The White Rock Stuckists in British Columbia founded by David Wilson.[56]

Asia edit

Asim Butt founded the first Pakistani Stuckist group, The Karachi Stuckists, in 2005.[58] At the end of 2009 he was thinking of expanding The Karachi Stuckists with new members,[59] but on 15 January 2010 he committed suicide.[60] In 2011 Sheherbano Husain restarted the group.[56]

The Tehran Stuckists is an Iranian Stuckist, Remodernist and anti-anti-art group of painters founded in 2007 in Tehran,[56] which is a major protagonist of Asian Stuckism.[11] In April 2010 they curated the first Stuckist exhibition in Iran, Tehran Stuckists: Searching for the Unlimited Potentials of Figurative Painting, at Iran Artists Forum, Mirmiran Gallery.[61] Their second exhibition, International Stuckists: Painters Out of Order, including paintings by Stuckists from Iran, Britain, USA, Spain, South Africa, Pakistan and Turkey was held at Day Gallery in November 2013.[62] Although one of the main aspects of Stuckism movement is that "the Stuckist allows him/herself uncensored expression",[5] but The Tehran Stuckists' exhibitions in Iran are censored and they are not allowed to exhibit some of their artworks in Iranian galleries.[63] The group has also participated in Stuckist exhibitions in Britain, Lithuania and Spain.[61]

Other Asian Stuckists are Shelley Li (China), Smeetha Boumik (India), Joko Apridinoto (Indonesia), Elio Yuri Figini (Japan) and Fady Chamaa (Lebanon).[56]

Europe edit

 
Peter Klint. Rotes Kliff, 2008

The Prague Stuckists were founded in 2005 in the Czech Republic by Robert Janás,[56][64] Other Stuckist artists in Europe include Peter Klint (Germany), Michael Dickinson (Turkey), Odysseus Yakoumakis (Greece), Artista Eli (Spain), Kloot Per W (Belgium), Jaroslav Valečka (Czech Republic), Jiří Hauschka (Czech Republic),[65] Markéta Korečková (Czech Republic), Ján Macko (Slovakia) and Pavel Lefterov (Bulgaria).[56]

Oceania edit

In October 2000, Regan Tamanui founded The Melbourne Stuckists in Melbourne,[66] the fourth Stuckist group to be started and the first one outside the UK. On 27 October 2000, he staged the Real Turner Prize Show at the Dead End Gallery in his home, concurrent with three shows with the same title in England (London, Falmouth and Dartington) and one in Germany in protest against the Tate Gallery's Turner Prize. Other Australian Stuckists include Godfrey Blow, who exhibited in The Stuckists Punk Victorian.[67] In 2005 Mike Mayhew also founded The Christchurch Stuckists in New Zealand.[56]

Ex-Stuckists edit

Co-founder Billy Childish left the group in 2001, but has stated that he remains committed to its principles. Sexton Ming left to concentrate on a solo career with the Aquarium Gallery. Wolf Howard left in 2006, but has exhibited with the group since. Jesse Richards who ran the Stuckism Centre USA in New Haven, left the group in 2006 to focus on Remodernist film.

 
Stella Vine (right) with Charlotte Gavin (left) and Joe Machine at the Vote Stuckist show in 2001, where her work was first shown publicly.[68]

In June 2000, Stella Vine went to a talk given by Childish and Thomson on Stuckism and Remodernism in London.[69] At the end of May 2001, she exhibited some of her paintings publicly for the first time in the Vote Stuckist show in Brixton, and formed The Westminster Stuckists group.[68] On 4 June, she took part in a Stuckist demonstration in Trafalgar Square.[69][70] By 10 July, she had renamed her group The Unstuckists.[71] In mid-August, Thomson and Vine married.[72] A work by her was shown in the Stuckist show in Paris, which ended in mid-November, by which time she had rejected the Stuckists,[68] and the marriage had ended.

In February 2004, Charles Saatchi bought a painting of Diana, Princess of Wales, by Vine and was credited with "discovering" her. Thomson said it was the Stuckists and not Saatchi who had discovered her.[73] At the end of March 2004, Thomson made a formal complaint about Saatchi to the Office of Fair Trading, claiming that Saatchi's leading position was monopolistic "to the detriment of smaller competitors",[74] citing Vine as an example of this.[75] On 15 April, the OFT closed the file on the case on the basis that Saatchi was not "in a dominant position in any relevant market."[76]

Responses and critique edit

A short time after the 1999 exhibition of My Bed and the Stuckists' response with Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision, a pair of performance artists named Yuan Cai and Jian Jun Xi performed an art intervention titled Two Naked Men Jump into Tracey's Bed at the Tate Gallery's Turner Prize. Cai had written, among other things, the words "Anti Stuckism" on his bare back as the two jumped on the bed and performed a pillow fight. Fiachra Gibbons of The Guardian wrote (in 1999) that the event "will go down in art history as the defining moment of the new and previously unheard of Anti-Stuckist Movement."[77] Writing in The Guardian ten years later, Jonathan Jones described the Stuckists as "enemies of art", and what they say as "cheap slogans" and "hysterical rants".[78]

The artist Max Podstolski wrote that the art world needed a new manifesto, as confrontational as that of Futurism or Dadaism, "written with a heart-felt passion capable of inspiring and rallying art world outsiders, dissenters, rebels, the neglected and disaffected", and suggests that "Well now we've got it, in the form of Stuckism".[79]

New York art gallery owner Edward Winkleman wrote in 2006 that he had never heard of the Stuckists, so he "looked them up on Wikipedia", and stated he was "turned off by their anti-conceptual stance, not to mention the inanity of their statement about painting, but I'm more than a bit interested in the democratization their movement represents." Thomson responded to Winkleman directly.[80]

Also in 2006, Colin Gleadell, writing in The Telegraph, noted that the Stuckists' first exhibition in central London had brought "multiple sales" for leading artists of the movement, and that this raised the question of how good they were at painting. He observed that "Whatever the critics may say, buyers from the UK, the US and Japan have already taken a punt. Six of Thomson's paintings have sold for between £4,000 and £5,000 each. Joe Machine, a former prisoner who paints for therapeutic reasons, has also sold six paintings for the same price."[81]

Paul Vallely defended Sir Nicholas Serota from Stuckist campaigns, criticizing the movement's anti-conceptualism for its association with "forces of social reaction" such as the Daily Mail and upholding Serota as the "greatest single champion of modern art in Britain".[82] Vallely stated that while "I did smile" at Acquisitions Decision, he equally admired Serota's "cool response to the Stuckist détournement", visiting the Punk Victorian show and conversing with members before rejecting an offered donation of their work as not of "sufficient quality in terms of accomplishment, innovation or originality of thought to warrant preservation in perpetuity in the national collection"[82]

The BBC arts correspondent Lawrence Pollard wrote in 2009 that the way was paved for "cultural agitators" like the Stuckists, as well as the Vorticists, Surrealists and others, by the Futurist Manifesto of 20 February 1909.[83]

Gallery edit

Some UK Stuckist artists' work:

See also edit

References edit

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Further reading edit

  • Ed. Katherine Evans, "The Stuckists", Victoria Press, 2000, ISBN 0-907165-27-3.
  • Ed. Frank Milner, "The Stuckists punk Victorian", National Museums Liverpool, 2004, ISBN 1-902700-27-9.
  • Robert Janás, "Stuckism International: The Stuckist Decade 1999–2009", Victoria Press, 2009, ISBN 0-907165-28-1.
  • Charles Thomson, Robert Janás, Edward Lucie-Smith, "The Enemies of Art: The Stuckists", Victoria Press, 2011, ISBN 0-907165-31-1.
  • Gabriela Luciana Lakatos, (pages 13–14), University of Art and Design Cluj Napoca, 2011.
  • Yolanda Morató, "¿Qué pinto yo aquí? Stuckistas, vanguardias remodernistas y el mundo del arte contemporáneo", Zut, 2006, ISSN 1699-7514 [It includes a translation into Spanish of Stuckism International and a portfolio of Larry Dunstan's pictures]
  • Charles Thompson, "Stuck in the Emotional Landscape - Jiri Hauschka, Jaroslav Valecka", Victoria press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-907165-32-3.

External links edit

  • Stuckism International
  • Billy Childish interviewed about Stuckism
  • Charles Thomson Interviewed about Stuckism 20 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  • Prague Stuckists
  • Central Europe Stuckists

stuckism, international, movement, founded, 1999, billy, childish, charles, thomson, promote, figurative, painting, opposed, conceptual, 2017, initial, group, british, artists, expanded, groups, countries, formation28, january, 1999, years, 1999, locationworld. Stuckism ˈ s t ʌ k ɪ z em is an international art movement founded in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figurative painting as opposed to conceptual art 2 3 By May 2017 the initial group of 13 British artists had expanded to 236 groups in 52 countries 4 StuckismFormation28 January 1999 25 years ago 1999 01 28 1 LocationWorldwideMembership233 groupsFoundersBilly ChildishCharles ThomsonMembers of first groupPhilip Absolon Eamon Everall Ella Guru Bill Lewis Joe Machine Charles Williams Wolf Howard Sexton Ming Frances Castle Sheila Clarke Sanchia LewisLater membersElsa Dax Guy Denning Michael Dickinson Robert Janas Odysseus Yakoumakis John Bourne Mark D Paul Harvey Stephen Howarth Alexis Hunter Abby Jackson Naive John Rachel Jordan Jane Kelly Peter McArdle Mandy McCartin Peter Murphy Remy Noe Udaiyan Jeffrey Scott Holland Frank Kozik Terry Marks Nicholas Watson Godfrey Blow Asim Butt Mike Mayhew Regan Tamanui Jonathon CoudrilleWebsitestuckism wbr com Childish and Thomson have issued several manifestos The first one was The Stuckists consisting of 20 points starting with Stuckism is a quest for authenticity 5 Remodernism the other well known manifesto of the movement opposes the deconstruction and irony of postmodernism in favor of what Stuckists refer to as the spirituality of the artist 6 In another manifesto they define themselves as anti anti art 7 which is against anti art and for what they consider conventional art 8 After exhibiting in small galleries in Shoreditch London the Stuckists first show in a major public museum was held in 2004 at the Walker Art Gallery as part of the Liverpool Biennial The group has demonstrated annually at Tate Britain against the Turner Prize since 2000 sometimes dressed in clown costumes They have also come out in opposition to the Charles Saatchi patronised Young British Artists 9 10 Although painting is the dominant artistic form of Stuckism artists using other media such as photography sculpture film and collage have also joined and share the Stuckist opposition to conceptualism and ego art 11 Contents 1 Name founding and origin 2 Manifestos 3 Growth in the UK 3 1 Demonstrations 3 2 The Stuckists Punk Victorian 3 3 A Gallery 3 4 Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision 4 International movement 4 1 Africa 4 2 America 4 3 Asia 4 4 Europe 4 5 Oceania 5 Ex Stuckists 6 Responses and critique 7 Gallery 8 See also 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External linksName founding and origin edit nbsp Sexton Ming Tracey Emin Charles Thomson Billy Childish and musician Russell Wilkinson at the Rochester Adult Education Centre to record The Medway Poets LP 11 December 1987 The name Stuckism was coined in January 1999 by Charles Thomson in response to a poem read to him several times by Billy Childish In it Childish recites that his former girlfriend Tracey Emin had said he was stuck stuck stuck with his art poetry and music 12 Later that month Thomson approached Childish with a view to co founding an art group called Stuckism which Childish agreed to on the basis that Thomson would do the work for the group as Childish already had a full schedule 12 There were eleven other founding members Philip Absolon Frances Castle Sheila Clark Eamon Everall Ella Guru Wolf Howard Bill Lewis Sanchia Lewis Joe Machine Sexton Ming and Charles Williams 12 The membership has evolved since its founding through creative collaborations 13 the group was originally promoted as working in paint but members have since worked in various other media including poetry fiction performance photography film and music 12 In 1979 Thomson Childish Bill Lewis and Ming were members of The Medway Poets performance group to which Absolon and Sanchia Lewis had earlier contributed 12 Peter Waite s Rochester Pottery staged a series of solo painting shows 12 In 1982 TVS broadcast a documentary on the poets 12 That year Emin then a fashion student and Childish started a relationship her writing was edited by Bill Lewis printed by Thomson and published by Childish 12 Group members published dozens of works 12 The poetry group dispersed after two years reconvening in 1987 to record The Medway Poets LP 12 Clark Howard and Machine became involved over the following years 12 Thomson got to know Williams who was a local art student and whose girlfriend was a friend of Emin Thomson also met Everall 12 During the foundation of the group Ming brought in his girlfriend Guru who in turn invited Castle 12 Manifestos edit nbsp The first Stuckists group of 13 artists at the Real Turner Prize Show Pure Gallery Shoreditch London in October 2000 In August 1999 Childish and Thomson wrote The Stuckists manifesto 5 which stress the value of painting as a medium its use for communication and the expression of emotion and experience as opposed to what Stuckists see as the superficial novelty nihilism and irony of conceptual art and postmodernism The most contentious statement in the manifesto is Artists who don t paint aren t artists 14 The second and third manifestos An Open Letter to Sir Nicholas Serota and Remodernism respectively were sent to the director of the Tate Nicholas Serota He sent a brief reply Thank you for your open letter dated 6 March You will not be surprised to learn that I have no comment to make on your letter or your manifesto Remodernism 15 In the Remodernism manifesto the Stuckists declared that they aimed to replace postmodernism with remodernism a period of renewed spiritual as opposed to religious values in art culture and society Other manifestos have included Handy Hints Anti anti art The Cappuccino writer and the Idiocy of Contemporary Writing The Turner Prize The Decreptitude of the Critic and Stuckist critique of Damien Hirst In Anti anti art the Stuckists outlined their opposition to what is known as anti art 8 Stuckists claim that conceptual art is justified by the work of Marcel Duchamp but that Duchamp s work is anti art by intent and effect The Stuckists feel that Duchamp s work was a protest against the stale unthinking artistic establishment of his day while the great but wholly unintentional irony of postmodernism is that it is a direct equivalent of the conformist unoriginal establishment that Duchamp attacked in the first place 16 Manifestos have been written by other Stuckists including the Students for Stuckism group An Underage Stuckists group was founded in 2006 with a manifesto for teenagers written by two 16 year olds Liv Soul and Rebekah Maybury on MySpace 17 In 2009 a group calling itself The Other Muswell Hill Stuckists published The Founding Manifesto and Rules of The Other Muswell Hill Stuckists 18 Growth in the UK edit nbsp Stuck Stuck Stuck the first Stuckist show 1999 In July 1999 the Stuckists were first mentioned in the media in an article in The Evening Standard and soon gained other coverage helped by press interest in Tracey Emin who had been nominated for the Turner Prize 19 20 The first Stuckist show was Stuck Stuck Stuck in September 1999 in Joe Crompton s in Shoreditch Gallery 108 now defunct followed by The Resignation of Sir Nicholas Serota In 2000 they staged The Real Turner Prize Show at the same time as the Tate Gallery s Turner Prize exhibition 21 A Students for Stuckism group was founded in 2000 by students from Camberwell College of Arts who staged their own exhibition S P Howarth was expelled from the painting degree course at Camberwell college for his paintings 22 and had the first solo exhibit at the Stuckism International Gallery in 2002 named I Don t Want a Painting Degree if it Means Not Painting 23 Thomson stood as a Stuckist candidate for the 2001 British General Election in the constituency of Islington South amp Finsbury against Chris Smith the then Secretary of State for Culture He picked up 108 votes 0 4 24 25 Childish left the group at this time because he objected to Thomson s leadership 26 27 nbsp Stuckism International Gallery From 2002 to 2005 Thomson ran the Stuckism International Centre and Gallery in Shoreditch London In 2003 under the title A Dead Shark Isn t Art the gallery exhibited a shark which had first been put on public display in 1989 two years before Damien Hirst s by Eddie Saunders in his Shoreditch shop JD Electrical Supplies It was suggested that Hirst may have seen this and copied it 28 In 2003 they reported Charles Saatchi to the UK Office of Fair Trading complaining that he had an effective monopoly on art The complaint was not upheld 29 In 2003 an allied group Stuckism Photography was founded by Larry Dunstan and Andy Bullock In 2005 the Stuckists offered a donation of 175 paintings from the Walker show to the Tate but it was rejected by the Tate s trustees 30 In August 2005 Thomson alerted the press to the fact that the Tate had purchased a work by Chris Ofili The Upper Room for 705 000 while the artist was a serving Tate trustee 31 32 Fraser Kee Scott owner of A Gallery demonstrated with the Stuckists outside the Tate Gallery against the gallery s purchase of The Upper Room Scott said in The Daily Telegraph that the Tate Gallery s chairman Paul Myners was hypocritical for refusing to divulge the price paid Ofili had asked other artists to donate work to the gallery 33 In July 2006 the Charity Commission censured the gallery for acting outside its legal powers 34 Sir Nicholas Serota stated that the Stuckists had acted in the public interest 35 In October 2006 the Stuckists staged their first exhibition Go West in a commercial West End gallery Spectrum London 36 signalling their entry as major players in the art world 37 nbsp Paul Harvey Charles Saatchi 2006 An international symposium on Stuckism took place in October 2006 at the Liverpool John Moores University during the Liverpool Biennial The programme was led by Naive John founder of the Liverpool Stuckists There was an accompanying exhibition in the 68 Hope Gallery at Liverpool School of Art and Design John Moores University Gallery 38 By 2006 there were 63 Stuckist groups in the UK Members include Naive John Mark D Elsa Dax Paul Harvey Jane Kelly Udaiyan Peter McArdle Peter Murphy Rachel Jordan Guy Denning and Abby Jackson John Bourne opened Stuckism Wales at his home a permanent exhibition of mainly Welsh paintings Mandy McCartin is a regular guest artist 39 In 2010 Paul Harvey s painting of Charles Saatchi was banned from the window display of the Artspace Gallery in Maddox Street London on the grounds that it was too controversial for the area 40 41 It was the centrepiece of the show Stuckist Clowns Doing Their Dirty Work the first exhibition of the Stuckists in Mayfair 41 and depicted Saatchi with a sheep at his feet and a halo made from a cheese wrapper 42 The Saatchi Gallery said that Saatchi would not have any problem with the painting s display 42 The gallery announced they were shutting down the show 41 Harvey said I did it to make Saatchi look friendly and human It s a ludicrous decision 42 The Stuckists protested with emails to the gallery 43 Subsequently the painting was reinstated and the show continued 43 Demonstrations edit Main article Stuckist demonstrations nbsp Outside the Turner Prize Tate Britain 2005 Stuckists demonstrate against the purchase of Chris Ofili s The Upper Room The cutout is Tate chairman Paul Myners The Stuckists gained significant media coverage for eight years of protests 2000 2006 and 2008 outside Tate Britain against the Turner Prize sometimes dressed as clowns In 2001 they demonstrated in Trafalgar Square at the unveiling of Rachel Whiteread s Monument In 2002 they carried a coffin marked The Death of Conceptual Art to the White Cube Gallery 44 45 In 2004 outside the launch of The Triumph of Painting at the Saatchi Gallery they wore tall hats with Charles Saatchi s face emblazoned and carried placards claiming that Saatchi had copied their ideas 46 Events outside Britain have included The Clown Trial of President Bush held in New Haven in 2003 to protest against the Iraq War Michael Dickinson has exhibited political and satirical collages in Turkey for which he was arrested 47 and charged but acquitted of any crime an outcome which was seen to have positive implications for Turkey s relationship with the European Union 48 The Stuckists Punk Victorian edit Main article The Stuckists Punk Victorian nbsp Cover of the book The Stuckists Punk Victorian The Stuckists Punk Victorian was the first national gallery exhibition of Stuckist art It was held at the Walker Art Gallery and Lady Lever Art Gallery and was part of the 2004 Liverpool Biennial It consisted of over 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 an accompanying exhibition of Stuckist photographers A book The Stuckists Punk Victorian was published to accompany the exhibition Daily Mail journalist Jane Kelly exhibited a painting of Myra Hindley in the show which may have been the cause of her dismissal from her job 49 A Gallery edit Further information A Gallery Stuckists nbsp The A Gallery Wimbledon July 2007 Paintings by Peter McArdle left and Paul Harvey sculpture by Adrian Bannister In July 2007 the Stuckists held an exhibition at A Gallery I Won t Have Sex with You as long as We re Married 50 51 titled after words apparently said to Thomson by his ex wife Stella Vine on their wedding night 51 The show coincided with the opening of Vine s major show at Modern Art Oxford and was prompted by Thomson s anger that the material promoting her show did not mention her time with the Stuckists 50 Tate chairman Paul Myners visited both shows 52 Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision edit nbsp Charles Thomson Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision 2000 nbsp Demonstration against the Turner Prize 2006 Left to right Federico Penteado Charles Thomson John Bourne Main article Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision As Charlotte Cripps of The Independent wrote Charles Thomson s painting Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision is one of the best known paintings to come out of the Stuckist movement 45 and as Jane Morris wrote in The Guardian it s a likely signature piece for the movement 53 standing for its opposition to conceptual art Painted in 2000 the piece has been exhibited in later Stuckist shows and featured on placards in Stuckist demonstrations against the Turner Prize It depicts Sir Nicholas Serota Director of the Tate Gallery and the usual chairman of the Turner Prize jury and satirises Young British Artist Tracey Emin s installation My Bed consisting of her bed and objects including knickers which she exhibited in 1999 as a Turner Prize nominee 54 International movement editIn 2000 Regan Tamanui started the first Stuckist group outside Britain in Melbourne Australia and it was decided that other artists should be free to start their own groups also named after their locality 55 Stuckism has since grown into an international art movement 2 of 233 groups in 52 countries as of July 2012 4 Africa edit Mafa Bamba founded The Abidgan Stuckists in 2001 in Ivory Coast and Kari Seid founded The Cape Town Stuckists in 2008 in South Africa 56 America edit nbsp Charles Thomson with US Stuckists Nicholas Watson Terry Marks Marisa Shepherd Jesse Richards and Catherine Chow 2001 Main article Stuckism in the United States In 2000 Susan Constanse founded the first U S group The Pittsburgh Stuckists in Pittsburgh 56 the second group to be founded outside the UK This was announced in the In Pittsburgh Weekly 1 November 2000 The new word in art is Stuckism A Stuckist paints their life mind and soul with no pretensions and no excuses 57 By 2011 there were 44 U S Stuckist groups There have been Stuckist shows and demonstrations in the U S and American Stuckists have also exhibited in international Stuckist shows abroad U S Stuckists include Ron Throop Jeffrey Scott Holland Frank Kozik and Terry Marks 56 There are also 4 Stuckist groups in Canada including The White Rock Stuckists in British Columbia founded by David Wilson 56 Asia edit Asim Butt founded the first Pakistani Stuckist group The Karachi Stuckists in 2005 58 At the end of 2009 he was thinking of expanding The Karachi Stuckists with new members 59 but on 15 January 2010 he committed suicide 60 In 2011 Sheherbano Husain restarted the group 56 The Tehran Stuckists is an Iranian Stuckist Remodernist and anti anti art group of painters founded in 2007 in Tehran 56 which is a major protagonist of Asian Stuckism 11 In April 2010 they curated the first Stuckist exhibition in Iran Tehran Stuckists Searching for the Unlimited Potentials of Figurative Painting at Iran Artists Forum Mirmiran Gallery 61 Their second exhibition International Stuckists Painters Out of Order including paintings by Stuckists from Iran Britain USA Spain South Africa Pakistan and Turkey was held at Day Gallery in November 2013 62 Although one of the main aspects of Stuckism movement is that the Stuckist allows him herself uncensored expression 5 but The Tehran Stuckists exhibitions in Iran are censored and they are not allowed to exhibit some of their artworks in Iranian galleries 63 The group has also participated in Stuckist exhibitions in Britain Lithuania and Spain 61 Other Asian Stuckists are Shelley Li China Smeetha Boumik India Joko Apridinoto Indonesia Elio Yuri Figini Japan and Fady Chamaa Lebanon 56 Europe edit nbsp Peter Klint Rotes Kliff 2008 The Prague Stuckists were founded in 2005 in the Czech Republic by Robert Janas 56 64 Other Stuckist artists in Europe include Peter Klint Germany Michael Dickinson Turkey Odysseus Yakoumakis Greece Artista Eli Spain Kloot Per W Belgium Jaroslav Valecka Czech Republic Jiri Hauschka Czech Republic 65 Marketa Koreckova Czech Republic Jan Macko Slovakia and Pavel Lefterov Bulgaria 56 Oceania edit Main article Stuckism in Australia In October 2000 Regan Tamanui founded The Melbourne Stuckists in Melbourne 66 the fourth Stuckist group to be started and the first one outside the UK On 27 October 2000 he staged the Real Turner Prize Show at the Dead End Gallery in his home concurrent with three shows with the same title in England London Falmouth and Dartington and one in Germany in protest against the Tate Gallery s Turner Prize Other Australian Stuckists include Godfrey Blow who exhibited in The Stuckists Punk Victorian 67 In 2005 Mike Mayhew also founded The Christchurch Stuckists in New Zealand 56 Ex Stuckists editCo founder Billy Childish left the group in 2001 but has stated that he remains committed to its principles Sexton Ming left to concentrate on a solo career with the Aquarium Gallery Wolf Howard left in 2006 but has exhibited with the group since Jesse Richards who ran the Stuckism Centre USA in New Haven left the group in 2006 to focus on Remodernist film nbsp Stella Vine right with Charlotte Gavin left and Joe Machine at the Vote Stuckist show in 2001 where her work was first shown publicly 68 In June 2000 Stella Vine went to a talk given by Childish and Thomson on Stuckism and Remodernism in London 69 At the end of May 2001 she exhibited some of her paintings publicly for the first time in the Vote Stuckist show in Brixton and formed The Westminster Stuckists group 68 On 4 June she took part in a Stuckist demonstration in Trafalgar Square 69 70 By 10 July she had renamed her group The Unstuckists 71 In mid August Thomson and Vine married 72 A work by her was shown in the Stuckist show in Paris which ended in mid November by which time she had rejected the Stuckists 68 and the marriage had ended In February 2004 Charles Saatchi bought a painting of Diana Princess of Wales by Vine and was credited with discovering her Thomson said it was the Stuckists and not Saatchi who had discovered her 73 At the end of March 2004 Thomson made a formal complaint about Saatchi to the Office of Fair Trading claiming that Saatchi s leading position was monopolistic to the detriment of smaller competitors 74 citing Vine as an example of this 75 On 15 April the OFT closed the file on the case on the basis that Saatchi was not in a dominant position in any relevant market 76 Responses and critique editA short time after the 1999 exhibition of My Bed and the Stuckists response with Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision a pair of performance artists named Yuan Cai and Jian Jun Xi performed an art intervention titled Two Naked Men Jump into Tracey s Bed at the Tate Gallery s Turner Prize Cai had written among other things the words Anti Stuckism on his bare back as the two jumped on the bed and performed a pillow fight Fiachra Gibbons of The Guardian wrote in 1999 that the event will go down in art history as the defining moment of the new and previously unheard of Anti Stuckist Movement 77 Writing in The Guardian ten years later Jonathan Jones described the Stuckists as enemies of art and what they say as cheap slogans and hysterical rants 78 The artist Max Podstolski wrote that the art world needed a new manifesto as confrontational as that of Futurism or Dadaism written with a heart felt passion capable of inspiring and rallying art world outsiders dissenters rebels the neglected and disaffected and suggests that Well now we ve got it in the form of Stuckism 79 New York art gallery owner Edward Winkleman wrote in 2006 that he had never heard of the Stuckists so he looked them up on Wikipedia and stated he was turned off by their anti conceptual stance not to mention the inanity of their statement about painting but I m more than a bit interested in the democratization their movement represents Thomson responded to Winkleman directly 80 Also in 2006 Colin Gleadell writing in The Telegraph noted that the Stuckists first exhibition in central London had brought multiple sales for leading artists of the movement and that this raised the question of how good they were at painting He observed that Whatever the critics may say buyers from the UK the US and Japan have already taken a punt Six of Thomson s paintings have sold for between 4 000 and 5 000 each Joe Machine a former prisoner who paints for therapeutic reasons has also sold six paintings for the same price 81 Paul Vallely defended Sir Nicholas Serota from Stuckist campaigns criticizing the movement s anti conceptualism for its association with forces of social reaction such as the Daily Mail and upholding Serota as the greatest single champion of modern art in Britain 82 Vallely stated that while I did smile at Acquisitions Decision he equally admired Serota s cool response to the Stuckist detournement visiting the Punk Victorian show and conversing with members before rejecting an offered donation of their work as not of sufficient quality in terms of accomplishment innovation or originality of thought to warrant preservation in perpetuity in the national collection 82 The BBC arts correspondent Lawrence Pollard wrote in 2009 that the way was paved for cultural agitators like the Stuckists as well as the Vorticists Surrealists and others by the Futurist Manifesto of 20 February 1909 83 Gallery editSome UK Stuckist artists work nbsp Philip Absolon Breakdown uploaded 2008 date of creation not known nbsp John Bourne Epsom Kitchen uploaded 2008 nbsp Mark D Victoria Beckham America Doesn t Love Me uploaded 2008 nbsp Elsa Dax Bacchus uploaded 2008 nbsp Eamon Everall The Marriage uploaded 2008 nbsp Ella Guru Goodbye Columbus uploaded 2008 nbsp Paul Harvey Ford Anglia with Tent and Giotto Tree uploaded 2008 nbsp Jane Kelly If We Could Undo Psychosis 1 uploaded 2008 nbsp Bill Lewis The Laughter of Small White Dogs uploaded 2008 nbsp Joe Machine Diana Dors with an Axe uploaded 2008 nbsp Peter McArdle Artist and Model uploaded 2008 nbsp Charles Thomson A Single Woman in London Is Never more than Six Inches from the Nearest Rat uploaded 2008 See also editList of Stuckist artists List of Stuckist 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Machine 2014 ISBN 978 600 93925 2 0 Charles Thomson Robert Janas Edward Lucie Smith The Enemies of Art The Stuckists 2011 p 8 Victoria Press Archived 18 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine ISBN 978 0 907165 31 6 Edward Lucie Smith Stuck Between Prague and London Paul Harvey Jiri Hauschka Edgeworth Johnstone Charles Thomson Jaroslav Valecka 2013 Victoria Press Archived 18 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine ISBN 978 0 907165 33 0 As available on Amazon co uk International Stuckists Walker Art Gallery National Museums Liverpool Retrieved 15 November 2008 Godfrey Blow Walker Art Gallery National Museums Liverpool Retrieved 15 November 2008 Archived 1 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine a b c Thomson Charles August 2004 A Stuckist on Stuckism Stella Vine from Ed Frank Milner 2004 The Stuckists Punk Victorian p 23 National Museums Liverpool ISBN 1 902700 27 9 Available online at stuckism com a b Stella Vine the Stuckist in photos stuckism com Retrieved 18 December 2008 New sculpture in London s Trafalgar Square Getty Images 4 June 2001 Retrieved 6 January 2008 Stuckism news Westminster Stuckists come unstuck stuckism com 10 July 2001 Retrieved from Internet Archive 9 January 2009 Trouble and strife London Evening Standard p 12 20 August 2001 Alleyne Richard The Saatchi effect has customers queueing for new artist The Daily Telegraph 28 February 2004 Retrieved 10 January 2008 Stummer Robin Charles Saatchi abuses his hold on British art market The Independent on Sunday 28 March 2004 Retrieved 17 December 2008 Renton Andrew Artists licence Collector Charles Saatchi artist Tracey Emin and painter Stella Vine have all been criticised for unfair practices But fairness would kill art London Evening Standard p 41 6 April 2004 Charles Saatchi reported to OFT OFT conclusion stuckism com Retrieved 10 January 2009 Gibbons Fiachra 1999 Satirists Jump into Tracey s Bed The Guardian online 25 October 1999 Retrieved 22 March 2006 Jones Jonathan 2 October 2009 The Stuckists are enemies of art The Guardian Retrieved 16 March 2015 Podstolski Max May 2002 Head vs Heart a Critique of the Stuckist Manifesto Spark online 32 Archived from the original on 28 March 2013 Retrieved 16 March 2015 Winkleman Edward 28 August 2006 The Stuckists Retrieved 16 March 2015 Gleadell Colin 3 October 2006 Market news Roger Hilton s child like drawings stuckist paintings and Edward Seago The Telegraph Retrieved 17 March 2015 a b Vallely Paul Tate that Serota defies his critics The Independent 16 August 2008 Retrieved 21 February 2024 Back to the Futurists BBC 20 February 2009 Retrieved 17 March 2015 Further reading editEd Katherine Evans The Stuckists Victoria Press 2000 ISBN 0 907165 27 3 Ed Frank Milner The Stuckists punk Victorian National Museums Liverpool 2004 ISBN 1 902700 27 9 Robert Janas Stuckism International The Stuckist Decade 1999 2009 Victoria Press 2009 ISBN 0 907165 28 1 Charles Thomson Robert Janas Edward Lucie Smith The Enemies of Art The Stuckists Victoria Press 2011 ISBN 0 907165 31 1 Gabriela Luciana Lakatos Expressionism Today pages 13 14 University of Art and Design Cluj Napoca 2011 Yolanda Morato Que pinto yo aqui Stuckistas vanguardias remodernistas y el mundo del arte contemporaneo Zut 2006 ISSN 1699 7514 It includes a translation into Spanish of Stuckism International and a portfolio of Larry Dunstan s pictures Charles Thompson Stuck in the Emotional Landscape Jiri Hauschka Jaroslav Valecka Victoria press 2011 ISBN 978 0 907165 32 3 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stuckism nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Charles Thomson artist nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Billy Childish Stuckism International Billy Childish interviewed about Stuckism Charles Thomson Interviewed about Stuckism Archived 20 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine Stuckism in Germany Prague Stuckists Tehran Stuckists Central Europe Stuckists Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Stuckism amp oldid 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