Main site:
www.stuckism.com
http://www.stuckism.com
Background photo (by Rick Friend): Sir Nicholas Serota holds up the picture of him by Charles Thomson at the Stuckist Turner Prize demo 2006.
STUCKISM
Stuckism promotes contemporary figurative painting with ideas and is anti-conceptual art, mainly because of its lack of concepts. It was co-founded in 1999 by Charles Thomson and Billy Childish (who left in 2001) along with eleven other artists. The name was derived by Thomson from an insult to Childish from his ex-girlfriend, Brit artist Tracey Emin, who had told him that his art was 'Stuck':
"Your paintings are stuck,
you are stuck!
Stuck! Stuck! Stuck!"
Stuckists have regularly demonstrated dressed as clowns against the Turner Prize. Several Stuckist Manifestos have been issued. One of them Remodernism inaugurates a renewal of spiritual values for art, culture and society to replace the emptiness of current Postmodernism. The web site www.stuckism.com, started by Ella Guru, has disseminated these ideas, and in five years Stuckism has grown to an international art movement with over 173 groups in 41 countries. These groups are independent and self-directed.
