Stucco workers

The Stuckists are an international art movement founded in 1999 in London by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson as an alternative to the Young British Artists sponsored by Charles Saatchi .

history

The stucco workers in 2000

The term stuckism goes back to a dispute between the artist Tracey Emin and her then partner Billy Childish. Emin accused Childish that he and his art got stuck because he stuck to painting , in contrast to the now successful conceptual artist Emin: “ Your paintings are stuck, you are stuck! Piece! Piece! Piece! "

In the 1980s Charles Thomson took over Victoria Press London, where the book “Stuckism international. The Stuckism decade 1999–2009 ”was published.

In the late 1990s, Thomson and the musician Billy Childish founded the artist group The Stuckists , which committed itself to a return to painting. In public actions she protested against the mainstream art of established collectors and curators . In 2000, Thomson and Childish organized an exhibition to protest the prestigious Turner Prize . A year later there was also a protest organized by the stucco workers. From 2002 to 2005 Thomson ran a gallery, the "Stuckism international Gallery", in which he exhibited the work of the Stuckists.

The Stuckists encouraged artists from other disciplines and from other countries to join the Stuckism movement. Numerous groups of artists outside of Great Britain now call themselves stuccoists, including not only painters but also representatives of literature, music and photography.

Group exhibitions (selection)

2000: The Real Turner Prize Show , Pure Gallery, London
2003: A Dead Shark Isn't Art , Stuckism International Gallery, London
2004: Stuckist Punk Victorian Lite If You Can't Be Bothered to Go to Liverpool , Walker Art Gallery , Liverpool
2005: Addressing the Shadow and Making Friends with Wild Dogs: Remodernism , CBGB , New York City
2004: Liverpool Biennal of Contemporary Art , Liverpool
2010: Tehran Stuckists: Searching for the Unlimited Potentials of Figurative Painting , Tehran

A Dead Shark Isn't Art ,
Stuckism International Gallery,
London 2003.
The Stuckists Punk Victorian ,
Walker Art Gallery,
Liverpool 2004
Addressing the Shadow and Making Friends with Wild Dogs: Remodernism ,
CBGB,
New York City 2005

Gallery (United Kingdom)

Philip Absolon :
Breakdown
John Bourne :
Epsom Kitchen
Mark D :
Victoria Beckham: America Doesn't Love Me
Elsa Dax :
Bacchus
Eamon Everall :
The Marriage
Ella Guru :
Goodbye Columbus
Jane Kelly :
If We Could Undo Psychosis 1
Bill Lewis :
The Laughter of Small White Dogs
Joe Machine :
Diana Dors with an Ax
Peter McArdle :
Artist and Model
Charles Thomson :
A Single Woman in London Is Never more than Six Inches from the Nearest Rat
Charles Thomson :
Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision