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Stuckism () is an international art movement founded in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figurative painting as opposed to conceptual art."Glossary: Stuckism" ''''. Retrieved 16 September 2009. By May 2017 the initial group of 13 British artists had expanded to 236 groups in 52 countries."Stuckism International" stuckism.com. Retrieved 22 May 2017. Childish and Thomson have issued several manifestos. The first one was ''The Stuckists'', consisting of 20 points starting with "Stuckism is a quest for [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 led and played in bands including the Pop Rivets, Thee Milkshakes, Thee Headcoats, and the Musicians of the British Empire, primarily working in the genres of garage rock, punk and surf and releasing more than 100 albums. He is a consistent advocate for amateurism and free emotional expression. Childish co-founded the Stuckism art movement with Charles Thomson in 1999, which he left in 2001. Since then a new evaluation of Childish's standing in the art world has been under way, culminating with the publication of a critical study of Childish's working practice by the artist and writer Neal Brown, with an introduction by Peter Doig, which describes Childish as "one of the most outstanding, and often misunderstood, figures on the Britis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Harvey (artist)
Paul Arthur Harvey (born 7 May 1960) is a British musician and Stuckist artist, whose work was used to promote the Stuckists' 2004 show at the Liverpool Biennial.Milner, Frank ed. ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', p.74, National Museums Liverpool 2004. His paintings draw on pop art and the work of Alphonse Mucha, and often depict celebrities, including Madonna. Life and career Paul Harvey was born in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire. He attended Burton Grammar School (1971–1978) and North Staffordshire Polytechnic (1978–1982) for Foundation Art and BA (Hons) Design. In 1982, he moved to London and played in post-punk bands including Happy Refugees; in 1986 he moved to Newcastle to join Pauline Murray's band. During this time, he co-published-and-drew '' Mauretania Comics'' with comics artist Chris Reynolds, and also taught graffiti art. In 2001, he became a full-time lecturer in graphic design at North Tyneside College (now Tyne Metropolitan College, within The Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Kozik
Frank Kozik (born January 9, 1962 in Madrid) is an American graphic artist best known for his posters for alternative rock bands. History Kozik has worked with Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Melvins, The Offspring, Butthole Surfers, and Helmet. Kozik used to run Man's Ruin Records, a media outlet and record label, and has published several books including ''Man's Ruin: Posters and Art by Frank Kozik'' and ''Desperate Measures Empty Pleasures''. Kozik has been described as "one of the rock world's top poster artists", and interviewed in ''Rolling Stone''. Kozik created Smorkin' Labbit and is the Creative Director of Kidrobot. Although primarily known for his screen prints, a rare painting of the Labbit sold on the TV blind auction show ''Four Rooms'' for £4,000. Kozik has been a force in the designer toy movement with many of his works produced in that form. He is also a member of the Stuckism art movement. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Scott Holland
Jeffrey Scott Holland, (born May 13, 1966), is an artist, writer and musician living both in New York City and in Louisville, Kentucky. He is an active member of the Stuckist and Remodernist art movements, holding a traveling exhibit of Stuckist art in the United States in 2001, , . Retrieved 17 September 2009. and co-curating the Deatrick Gallery, the first Remodernist art gallery worldwide. Holland cites painters [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Udaiyan
Stuckism is an international anti-conceptual art and pro-figurative art, figurative painting art movement founded by Charles Thomson (artist), Charles Thomson and Billy Childish in 1999."Glossary: Stuckism" , Tate. Retrieved 16 September 2009. The founding group in London had 13 members. In 2000, Regan Tamanui started a group in Melbourne, Australia, and it was decided that other artists should be free to start their own groups also, named after their locality.Charles Thomson (artist), Thomson, Charles, "A Stuckist on Stuckism" in: Milner, Frank, ed. ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', p.20, National Museums Liverpool 2004, . Essay available online a [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rémy Noë
Rémy Noë (born 8 December 1974), is a British painter, a member of the international art movement Stuckism and co-founder of the Maidstone Stuckists.Milner, Frank ed. (2004), ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', p.128, National Museums Liverpool, . Life and work Rémy Noë was born in Bromley, Kent, England, to a French and Dutch father and English mother, but has lived in Medway for most of their life. From 1986 to 1993, he attended Vinters Boys School, described as "a living hell", and Chatham Grammar School for Boys. 1993-97, attended Canterbury College of Art for Foundation and BA in Fine Art, but was forced to leave by the Department of Social Security. From 1997 to 1998, resumed a part-time BA, but was expelled for condemning "conceptual shit" and also threatened with arrest. Since then, Noë has worked in their father's garage, Medway Citroen. During this time they returned to studies at Canterbury Christ Church College, and obtained a Master in Fine Arts degree in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Murphy (artist)
Peter Murphy (born 1959) is a British artist working in traditional egg tempera and gold leaf techniques, and a member of the Stuckist art movement.Morris, Catharine"Vivid new shrine paints the story of St Ethelbert" ''The Times'', 6 August 2007. Retrieved 4 April 2008. Life and work Peter Murphy was born in Leeds, England, and studied at Jacob Kramer College of Art and the University of East London. He trained with iconographer Guillem Ramos-Poquí. Murphy uses traditional techniques from medieval altar painting, including egg tempera paint and gilding with gold leaf. He is a member of the Society of Tempera Painters and runs courses teaching these traditional techniques. He has led workshops in Byzantine painting techniques on the Greek island of Skyros. He has been commissioned by a number of churches in the UK, notably Tewkesbury Abbey and the church of St Mary Redcliffe in Bristol. He has also been employed by a number of museums. In 1998 he recreated a triptych by Simon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 University of East London). She describes herself as from a working-class background and this is reflected in her images which are often of characters in inner city settings, painted in an intense way with different media including spray can graffiti. Shows have included William Jackson Gallery (Cork Street), Whitechapel Open, Battersea Arts Centre, New Contemporaries (ICA), and James Coleman. McCartin describes her work as paintings of "real people living on the edges of society, emotional moments in the struggle to survive." Stuckists founder Charles Thomson has always endorsed her work and sees it as "an intense visual confection of urban life. David Prudames has reviewed it as "snapshot images positively bustle with human activity, de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 based on that in the book. Life and career Peter McArdle was born in Tynemouth. He finished St. Aidan's RC School (Ashbrooke, Sunderland) in 1983, at which point he began to get sales for his paintings, which have supported him since. He gained a National Diploma in Art and Design at Newcastle College of Art and Design, 1983–85, then attended the University of Sunderland, from which he graduated in 1992. From 1992, he showed at Mark Jason Fine Art in Bond Street, London. In 1989, he was on the shortlist for the Winsor & Newton Young Artist Award. In 1997, during the Year of Visual Art, he was commissioned for work by the Tyne & Wear Development Corporation. He also received commissions from Arts Resource, Sunderland, and the City Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Kelly (artist)
Jane Kelly (born 7 May 1956) is a journalist and artist, affiliated with the Stuckism, Stuckist art group.Milner, Frank ed. ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', p. 127, National Museums Liverpool 2004, She was dismissed from the ''Daily Mail'' after exhibiting a painting of serial killer Myra Hindley.Wells, Matt and Cozens, Claire (200"Daily Mail sacks writer who painted Hindley picture" ''The Guardian''. Retrieved 24 April 2006. Life and work Jane Kelly was born in Charlton, London, and educated at Pendeford High School, Wolverhampton, and Stirling University, where she graduated in 1978 in history and fine art. 1978–79 she taught in Sosnowiec University, Poland, since when she has worked as a journalist, including the ''Walsall Observer'', ''The Times'', ''The Daily Telegraph'', ''Daily Mail'', ''The Guardian'' and ''Daily Express''. She said: :In the 1970s it was Lynda Lee-Potter against Jean Rook on the ''Daily Express'', and we younger women writers all thought we would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 satirical figurative paintings; however, her main body of work is abstract paintings and drawings, alluding to cellular forms. Life and career Rachel Jordan was born in Maldon, Essex, England, and attended the University of Sheffield (1986–90), where she obtained Dual Honours in French and Hispanic Studies, then worked in office jobs until 1999, while also attending a fine art course 1995–98 at the City Literary Institute, London, where her final show, ''The Princess Project'', consisted of paintings about Princess Diana. In 2000, she started work as a picture researcher for BBC Books. The same year, she exhibited in the Stuckist show, ''The Resignation of Sir Nicholas Serota'' and took part, dressed as a Pierrot, in the first Stuckist dem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 involved in the Stuckism art movement. Art Naive John is a self-taught artist. Early work like ''The Blue Man'' (1988) with its use of flattened space and cartoon imagery predates Lowbrow (art movement), Lowbrow art and Pop Surrealism and is indicative of the artist's wikt:maverick, maverick approach to art production. His current paintings combine mythological, surreal and popular images juxtaposed with Liverpool's urban setting. They often refer to concerns for the environment with a humorous element. The painting ''Sefton Park – Genetically Modified'' is a good example of the issues the artist has explored. In other paintings figures are shown in isolation and appear pensive and alienated from the rest of society. The relationshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
