Editing Stuckism

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|formation     = {{Start date and years ago|df=yes|1999|01|28}}<ref name=origins>[http://www.stuckism.com/others.html#history "Origins Of Stuckism", staff writer, September 1999] Accessed 11 April 2006</ref>
|leader_title  = Founders
|leader_name   = [[Billy Childish]]<br/>[[Charles Thomson (artist)|Charles Thomson]]
|leader_title2 = Members of first group
|leader_name2  = [[Philip Absolon]], [[Eamon Everall]], [[Ella Guru]], [[Bill Lewis]], [[Joe Machine]], [[Charles Williams (artist)|Charles Williams]], [[Wolf Howard]], [[Sexton Ming]], Frances Castle, Sheila Clarke, Sanchia Lewis
|leader_title3 = Later members
|leader_name3  = [[Elsa Dax]], [[Guy Denning]], [[Michael Dickinson (artist)|Michael Dickinson]], [[Robert Janás]], [[Odysseus Yakoumakis]], [[John Bourne (artist)|John Bourne]], [[Mark D]], [[Paul Harvey (artist)|Paul Harvey]], [[Stephen Howarth]], [[Alexis Hunter]], [[Abby Jackson]], [[Naive John]], [[Rachel Jordan]], [[Jane Kelly (artist)|Jane Kelly]], [[Peter McArdle]], [[Mandy McCartin]], [[Peter Murphy (artist)|Peter Murphy]], [[Rémy Noë]], [[Udaiyan]], [[Jeffrey Scott Holland]], [[Frank Kozik]], [[Terry Marks]], [[Nicholas Watson]], [[Godfrey Blow]], [[Asim Butt (artist)|Asim Butt]], Mike Mayhew, [[Regan Tamanui]], [[Jonathon Coudrille]]
|name          = Stuckism
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|location      = Worldwide
|membership    = 233 groups
|website      = {{URL|stuckism.com/}}
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'''Stuckism''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|t|ʌ|k|ɪ|z|əm}}) is an international [[art movement]] founded in 1999 by [[Billy Childish]] and [[Charles Thomson (artist)|Charles Thomson]] to promote [[Figurative art|figurative painting]] as opposed to [[conceptual art]].<ref name=tate>[http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/stuckism "Glossary: Stuckism"], ''[[Tate]]''. Retrieved 16 September 2009.</ref><ref>[http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/stuckists/ "The Stuckists Punk Victorian"], [[Walker Art Gallery]], [[National Museums Liverpool]]. Retrieved 15 November 2008.</ref> By May 2017, the initial group of 13 British artists had expanded to 236 groups in 52 countries.<ref name=stuckismwebsite>[http://www.stuckism.com/ "Stuckism International"], stuckism.com. Retrieved 22 May 2017.</ref>

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 (philosophy) |authenticity]]".<ref name=stuckistmanifest>[http://www.stuckism.com/stuckistmanifesto.html The Stuckists manifesto], stuckism.com. Retrieved 17 November 2011.</ref> ''[[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.<ref>[http://painting.about.com/od/artglossaryr/g/defremodernism.htm Art Glossary: Remodernism] {{Webarchive|url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120420012721/http://painting.about.com/od/artglossaryr/g/defremodernism.htm |date=20 April 2012 }}, about.com. Retrieved 17 November 2011.</ref> In another manifesto they define themselves as ''anti-anti-art''<ref>[http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/news/artnetnews/artnetnews10-27-00.asp "Stuck on the Turner Prize"], [[artnet]], 27 October 2000. Retrieved 17 November 2011.</ref> which is against [[anti-art]] and for what they consider conventional art.<ref name = thomson>{{cite web|url = http://www.stuckism.com/StuckistAntiAntiArt.html |title = Anti-anti-art|website= stuckism.com |date = 4 November 2000|first1=Billy|last1= Childish|first2=Charles|last2= Thomson}}</ref>

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]].<ref>[http://www.artbiogs.co.uk/2/movements/stuckism Stuckism], Artist Biographies website.</ref><ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/turner-prize/8834871/The-Turner-Prizes-most-controversial-moments.html The Turner Prize's most controversial moments], 20 October 2011, The Telegraph website.</ref>

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."<ref name=robertjanas>"Stuckism International: The Stuckist Decade 1999–2009", [[Robert Janás]], [http://www.victoriapress.co.uk/ Victoria Press] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218183410/http://www.victoriapress.co.uk/ |date=18 December 2014 }}, 2009, a: p.73 - b: p.64, {{ISBN|0-907165-28-1}}.</ref>

==Name, founding and origin==
[[Image:MedwayPoets.jpg|thumb|[[Sexton Ming]], [[Tracey Emin]], [[Charles Thomson (artist)|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 (artist)|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.<ref name=milner7>[[Charles Thomson (artist)|Thomson, Charles]] (August 2004), "A Stuckist on Stuckism: Stella Vine", from: Ed. Frank Milner (2004), ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', pp. 7–9, [[National Museums Liverpool]], {{ISBN|1-902700-27-9}}. Available online at [http://www.stuckism.com/Walker/AStuckistOnStuckism.html#TwoStarts "The Two Starts of Stuckism"] and [http://www.stuckism.com/Walker/AStuckistOnStuckism.html#Virtual "The Virtual Stuckists"] on stuckism.com.</ref> 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.<ref name=milner7/>

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 (artist)|Charles Williams]].<ref name=milner7/> The membership has evolved since its founding through creative collaborations:<ref>[http://www.stuckism.com/info.html "Stuckism: Introduction"], stuckism.com. Retrieved 18 October 2009.</ref> 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.<ref name=milner7/>

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.<ref name=milner7/> Peter Waite's Rochester Pottery staged a series of solo painting shows.<ref name=milner7/> In 1982, [[Television South|TVS]] broadcast a documentary on the poets.<ref name=milner7/> 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.<ref name=milner7/> Group members published dozens of works.<ref name=milner7/> The poetry group dispersed after two years, reconvening in 1987 to record ''The Medway Poets'' LP.<ref name=milner7/> Clark, Howard and Machine became involved over the following years.<ref name=milner7/> Thomson got to know Williams, who was a local art student and whose girlfriend was a friend of Emin; Thomson also met Everall.<ref name=milner7/> During the foundation of the group, Ming brought in his girlfriend, Guru, who in turn invited Castle.<ref name=milner7/>

==Manifestos==
[[Image:2000 Real Turner Prize Show.jpg|thumb|left|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]]''<ref name=stuckistmanifest/> 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".<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/stuckists-scourge-of-britart-put-on-their-own-exhibition-413009.html Stuckists, scourge of BritArt, put on their own exhibition] Sarah Cassidy, ''[[The Independent]]'', 23 August 2006,</ref>

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&nbsp;March. You will not be surprised to learn that I have no comment to make on your letter, or your manifesto 'Remodernism'."<ref>[http://www.stuckism.com/serotareply.html "An open letter to Sir Nicholas Serota"], stuckism.com, 1999. Retrieved 20 May 2007</ref>

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]]".<ref name="thomson" />  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 [[Postmodern art|postmodernism]] is that it is a direct equivalent of the conformist, unoriginal establishment that Duchamp attacked in the first place".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.angelfire.com/art2/asullivan/stuckism.html |title=Stuckism : Art Against Art Against Art |publisher=Angelfire.com |access-date=2013-10-21}}</ref>

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]].<ref>[http://www.stuckism.com/Manifestos/UnderageStuckists.html "The Underage Stuckists Manifesto"], stuckism.com. Retrieved 25 April 2006</ref> In 2009, a group calling itself The Other Muswell Hill Stuckists published ''The Founding, Manifesto and Rules of The Other Muswell Hill Stuckists''.<ref name="Danchev2011">{{cite book |last=Danchev |first=Alex |title=100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L80epydK6qcC&pg=PT537 |year=2011 |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=978-0-14-193215-6 |page=537}}</ref>

==Growth in the UK==
[[Image:1999 First Stuckist show.jpg|thumb|''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]].<ref>[http://www.stuckism.com/news99.html Stuckism news 1999], stuckism.com. Retrieved 30 August 2011.</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Aitch|first1=Iain|title=Dirty Laundry Brit Artists Tracey Emin and Billy Childish go very public|url=http://www.gettingit.com/article/373|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021104064024/http://www.gettingit.com/article/373|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 November 2002|publisher=Whoa!|access-date=17 March 2015|date=23 November 1999}}</ref>

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.<ref>[http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-891549-turner-prize-a-load-of-rubbish.do Turner Prize: a load of rubbish?], ''[[London Evening Standard]]'', 24 October 2000. Retrieved 30 August 2011. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091114085645/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-891549-turner-prize-a-load-of-rubbish.do |date=14 November 2009 }}</ref>

A "Students for Stuckism" group was founded in 2000 by students from [[Camberwell College of Arts]], who staged their own exhibition. [[Stephen Howarth|S.P. Howarth]] was expelled from the painting degree course at Camberwell college for his paintings,<ref>Alberge, Dalya, "Students accuse art college of failing to teach them the basics", ''[[The Times]]'', p. 9, 8 July 2002. Online at [http://www.stuckism.com/SPHowarth/TimesArticle.html stuckism.com].</ref> 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''.<ref>[http://www.stuckism.com/Howarth/index.html S.P. Howarth], stuckism.com. Retrieved 30 August 2011.</ref>

Thomson stood as a Stuckist candidate for the [[2001 United Kingdom general election|2001 British General Election]], in the constituency of [[Islington South and Finsbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Islington South & Finsbury]], against [[Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury|Chris Smith]], the then [[Secretary of State for Culture]]. He picked up 108 votes (0.4%).<ref>[http://www.stuckism.com/votearch.html Vote Stuckist 2001], stuckism.com. Retrieved 30 August 2011.</ref><ref>[http://www.independentsbiennial.org/?p=99 Vote 2001, Islington South & Finsbury], BBC. Retrieved 30 August 2011.</ref> Childish left the group at this time because he objected to Thomson's leadership.<ref>[http://www.trakmarx.com/2004_02/10_billy.htm Billy Childish On Stuckism], April 2004, trakmarx.com. Retrieved 13 September 2011.</ref><ref>[http://www.stuckism.com/Childish.html Billy Childish], stuckism.com. Retrieved 30 August 2011.</ref>

[[Image:Stuckism International Gallery 2004.jpg|thumb|left|[[Stuckism International Gallery]]]]

From 2002 to 2005, Thomson ran the [[Stuckism International Gallery|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.<ref name=deadshark>[http://www.stuckism.com/SharkSpot.html "A Dead Shark Isn't Art"], stuckism.com. Retrieved 20 March 2006.</ref>

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.<ref>[http://www.stuckism.com/Saatchi/SaatchiOFT.html "Charles Saatchi reported to OFT"], stuckism.com. Retrieved 27 May 2006</ref> 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; however, it was rejected by the Tate's trustees.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/dec/11/arts.artsnews1 How ageing art punks got stuck into Tate's Serota], ''[[The Guardian]]'', 11 December 2005. Retrieved 30 August 2011.</ref>

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.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/dec/11/arts.artsnews1 How ageing art punks got stuck into Tate's Serota], The Guardian, 11 December 2005.</ref><ref>[http://www.stuckism.com/Tate/Ofili.html "Tate buys trustee Chris Ofili's The Upper Room in secret £705,000 deal"], stuckism.com. Retrieved 27 May 2006</ref> Fraser Kee Scott, owner of [[A Gallery]], demonstrated with the Stuckists outside the Tate Gallery against the [[Tate's purchase of The Upper Room|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.<ref name=walden>Walden, Celia. "Spy: Art-felt grumble", ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', p. 22, 19 October 2008.</ref> In July 2006 the Charity Commission censured the gallery for acting outside its legal powers.<ref>Alberge, Dalya (2006) [https://web.archive.org/web/20110517032514/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article689514.ece "Tate's Ofili purchase broke charity law"] ''The Times'' online, 19 July 2006. Retrieved 8 April 2007</ref> Sir Nicholas Serota stated that the Stuckists had "acted in the public interest".<ref>Front Row, BBC Radio 4, interview by Mark Lawson, 25 July 2006</ref>

In October 2006, the Stuckists staged their first exhibition, ''[[Go West (exhibition)|Go West]]'', in a commercial West End gallery, [[Spectrum London]];<ref name=portrait>Barnes, Anthony (2006) [https://web.archive.org/web/20080516073122/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20060903/ai_n16710587 "Portrait of an ex-husband's revenge"] ''The Independent on Sunday''. Retrieved 9 October 2006, from findarticles.com</ref> this signalled their entry as "major players" in the art world.<ref name=pants>Teodorczuk, Tom (2006) [http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/article-23364213-details/Modern+art+is+pants/article.do "Modern art is pants"] ''[[London Evening Standard]]'', 22 August 2006. Retrieved 9 October 2006 from thisislondon.co.uk. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090617120902/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/article-23364213-details/Modern+art+is+pants/article.do |date=17 June 2009 }}</ref>

[[Image:Paul Harvey, Charles Saatchi.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Paul Harvey (artist)|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&nbsp;Hope Gallery at [[Liverpool School of Art and Design]] (John Moores University Gallery).<ref>[http://www.independentsbiennial.org/?p=99 Day 13th Oct "International Symposium on Stuckism"], Independents Liverpool Biennial. Retrieved 30 August 2011.</ref>

By 2006, there were 63 Stuckist groups in the UK. Members include Naive John, [[Mark D]], [[Elsa Dax]], [[Paul Harvey (artist)|Paul Harvey]], [[Jane Kelly (artist)|Jane Kelly]], [[Udaiyan]], [[Peter McArdle]], [[Peter Murphy (artist)|Peter Murphy]], [[Rachel Jordan]], [[Guy Denning]] and [[Abby Jackson]]. [[John Bourne (artist)|John Bourne]] opened Stuckism Wales at his home, a permanent exhibition of (mainly Welsh) paintings. [[Mandy McCartin]] is a regular guest artist.<ref>[http://www.stuckism.com/McCartin/index.html Mandy McCartin], stuckism.com. Retrieved 30 August 2011.</ref>

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".<ref>[http://londonersdiary.standard.co.uk/2010/08/mr-saatchi-in-the-frame.html "Mr Saatchi in the frame"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716081052/http://londonersdiary.standard.co.uk/2010/08/mr-saatchi-in-the-frame.html |date=16 July 2011 }}, ''[[London Evening Standard]]'', 24 August 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2010.</ref><ref name="spoonfed">[http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/spooners/spoonfed-arts-team-8139/charles-saatchi-painting-gets-stuckists-shut-down-3643/ "Charles Saatchi painting gets Stuckists shut down"], [[Spoonfed Media]], 25 August 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2010. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312083222/http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/spooners/spoonfed-arts-team-8139/charles-saatchi-painting-gets-stuckists-shut-down-3643/|date=12 March 2012}}</ref> It was the centrepiece of the show, ''Stuckist Clowns Doing Their Dirty Work'', the first exhibition of the Stuckists in [[Mayfair]],<ref name=spoonfed/> and depicted Saatchi with a sheep at his feet and a halo made from a cheese wrapper.<ref name=wilkinson/> The [[Saatchi Gallery]] said that Saatchi "would not have any problem" with the painting's display.<ref name=wilkinson>Wilkinson, Tara Loader.[http://www.efinancialnews.com/story/2010-08-26/charles-saatchi-art?mod=mostread-TT "Mayfair divided over Charles Saatchi cheese painting"], ''[[Financial News]]'', 26 August 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2010.</ref> The gallery announced they were shutting down the show.<ref name=spoonfed/> Harvey said, "I did it to make Saatchi look friendly and human. It's a ludicrous decision".<ref name=wilkinson/>
The Stuckists protested with emails to the gallery.<ref name=carmichael>Carmichael, Kim. [http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2010/08/28/painting-by-north-east-artist-sparks-row-in-art-world-61634-27154002/ "Painting by North East artist sparks row in art world"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100917232318/http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2010/08/28/painting-by-north-east-artist-sparks-row-in-art-world-61634-27154002/ |date=17 September 2010 }}, ''[[The Journal (Newcastle upon Tyne newspaper)|The Journal]]'', 28 August 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2010.</ref> Subsequently, the painting was reinstated and the show continued.<ref name=carmichael/>

===Demonstrations===
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[[Image:2005 Stuckist Turner demo (2).jpg|thumb|left|Outside the Turner Prize, Tate Britain, 2005: Stuckists demonstrate against the purchase of [[Chris Ofili]]'s ''[[The Upper Room (paintings)|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.<ref>[http://www.stuckism.com/Tate/WhiteCube.html "White Cube Demo 2002"], stuckism.com. Retrieved 19 April 2008.</ref><ref name="cripps"/> Outside the launch of ''The Triumph of Painting'' at the Saatchi Gallery in 2004, they wore tall hats with Charles Saatchi's face emblazoned; they also carried placards claiming that Saatchi had copied their ideas.<ref>[http://www.thejournal.co.uk/news/north-east-news/painting-north-east-artist-sparks-4453343 Painting by North East artist sparks row in art world] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402205727/http://www.thejournal.co.uk/news/north-east-news/painting-north-east-artist-sparks-4453343 |date=2 April 2015 }}, The Journal, 28 August 2010.</ref>

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 (artist)|Michael Dickinson]] has exhibited political and satirical collages in [[Turkey]] for which he was arrested,<ref name=guardianbriton>Birch, Nicholas. [http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1871134,00.html "Briton charged over 'insult' to Turkish PM"], ''[[The Guardian]]'', 13 September 2006. Retrieved 2 September 2007.</ref> and charged, but acquitted of any crime—an outcome which was seen to have positive implications for Turkey's relationship with the [[European Union]].<ref name=tait>Tait, Robert. [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/sep/26/turkey.humanrights "Turkish court acquits British artist over portraying PM as US poodle"], ''[[The Guardian]]'', 26 September 2008. Retrieved 15 November 2008.</ref>

===The Stuckists Punk Victorian===
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''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.<ref name=sacked>Wells, Matt and Cozens, Claire. [https://www.theguardian.com/uk_news/story/0,,1315987,00.html "Daily Mail sacks writer who painted Hindley picture"], ''[[The Guardian]]'', 30 September 2004. Retrieved 1 February 2008.</ref>

===A Gallery===
{{Further|A Gallery#Stuckists}}

[[File:2007 A Gallery.jpg|thumb|left|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'',<ref name=prune>Duff, Oliver. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090616210252/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/pandora/bolton-gig-just-the-ticket-for-the-other-phil-collins-451755.html "Stuckists prune Vine"], ''[[The Independent]]'', 5 June 2007. Retrieved 24 December 2008. </ref><ref name=moody>Moody, Paul. [https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/artblog/2007/jul/12/everyonestalkingaboutstella "Everyone's talking about Stella Vine"], ''[[The Guardian]]'', 12 July 2007. Retrieved 9 December 2008.</ref> titled after words apparently said to Thomson by his ex-wife, [[Stella Vine]] on their wedding night.<ref name=moody/> 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.<ref name=prune/> Tate chairman [[Paul Myners]] visited both shows.<ref name=legal>Duff, Oliver. [https://web.archive.org/web/20071001144745/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/pandora/article2809157.ece "Legal sharks circle round Davis and his chief of staff"], (3rd story), ''[[The Independent]]'', 27 July 2007. Retrieved 24 December 2008. </ref>

===''Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision''===
[[Image:Charles Thomson. Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Charles Thomson (artist)|Charles Thomson]]. ''[[Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision]]'', 2000]]
[[File:2006 Stuckist Turner demo (4).jpg|thumb|left| Demonstration against the Turner Prize, 2006. Left to right: Federico Penteado, [[Charles Thomson (artist)|Charles Thomson]], [[John Bourne (artist)|John Bourne]]. ]]

{{main|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,<ref name=cripps>Cripps, Charlotte. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090105162919/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20040907/ai_n12797891 "Visual arts: Saying knickers to Sir Nicholas], ''[[The Independent]]'', 7 September 2004. Retrieved from findarticles.com, 7 April 2008.</ref> and as Jane Morris wrote in ''[[The Guardian]]'' it's a likely "signature piece" for the movement,<ref name=morris>Morris, Jane. [http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1857054,00.html "Getting stuck in"], ''[[The Guardian]]'', 24 August 2006. Retrieved 19 April 2008.</ref> 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 [[panties|knickers]], which she exhibited in 1999 as a Turner Prize nominee.<ref name=cassidy>Cassidy, Sarah. [http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1221073.ece "Stuckists, scourge of BritArt, put on their own exhibition"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001130452/http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1221073.ece |date=1 October 2007 }}, ''[[The Independent]]'', 23 August 2006. Retrieved 19 April 2008.</ref>

==International movement==
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.<ref name=milner20>[[Charles Thomson (artist)|Thomson, Charles]], "A Stuckist on Stuckism" in: Milner, Frank, ed. ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', p.20, [[National Museums Liverpool]] 2004, {{ISBN|1-902700-27-9}}. Essay available online at [http://www.stuckism.com/Walker/AStuckistOnStuckism.html#World stuckism.com].</ref> Stuckism has since grown into an international art movement<ref name=tate/> of 233 groups in 52 countries, as of July 2012.<ref name=stuckismwebsite/>

===Africa===
Mafa Bamba founded ''The Abidgan Stuckists'' in 2001 in Ivory Coast and Kari Seid founded ''The Cape Town Stuckists'' in 2008 in South Africa.<ref name=stuckistgroups>[http://www.stuckism.com/world.html "Stuckist groups"], stuckism.com. Retrieved 30 November 2011.</ref>

===America===
[[Image:US Stuckists in 2001.jpg|thumb|[[Charles Thomson (artist)|Charles Thomson]] with US Stuckists, [[Nicholas Watson]], [[Terry Marks]], Marisa Shepherd, [[Jesse Richards]] and Catherine Chow, 2001]]
{{Main|Stuckism in the United States}}
In 2000, Susan Constanse founded the first U.S. group ''The Pittsburgh Stuckists'' in [[Pittsburgh]]<ref name=stuckistgroups/>—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."<ref>[http://www.stuckism.com/StuckistMediaAppearances.doc The Stuckists in the Media]. The document lists articles in newspapers and magazines from Britain, Cyprus, Germany, Scotland, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United States. Retrieved 15 November 2008.</ref> 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]].<ref name=stuckistgroups/> There are also 4 Stuckist groups in Canada including ''The White Rock Stuckists'' in [[British Columbia]] founded by David Wilson.<ref name=stuckistgroups/>

===Asia===
[[Asim Butt (artist)|Asim Butt]] founded the first Pakistani Stuckist group, ''The Karachi Stuckists'', in 2005.<ref>[http://jang.com.pk/thenews/jan2010-weekly/nos-24-01-2010/instep/mainissue.htm INSTEP Magazine], jang.com. Retrieved 24 October 2010.</ref> At the end of 2009 he was thinking of expanding ''The Karachi Stuckists'' with new members;<ref>[http://www.stuckism.com/Butt/Index.html#Dehnavi Asim's tribute page], stuckism.com. Retrieved 24 October 2010.</ref> however, on 15 January 2010 he committed suicide.<ref>[http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\16\story_16-1-2010_pg12_6 Pakistan Daily Times], ''[[Daily Times (Pakistan)|Daily Times]]'', 16 January 2010. Retrieved 24 October 2010.</ref> In 2011, Sheherbano Husain restarted the group.<ref name=stuckistgroups/>

''The Tehran Stuckists'' is an Iranian Stuckist, Remodernist and anti-anti-art group of painters founded in 2007 in [[Tehran]],<ref name=stuckistgroups/> which is a major protagonist of Asian Stuckism.<ref name=robertjanas/> 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.<ref name=exhibitions>[https://archive.today/20140127142041/http://tehranstuckism.ir/exhibitions Exhibitions - Tehran Stuckists], Tehran Stuckists website. Retrieved 10 February 2012.</ref> 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.<ref name=municipality>[http://en.tehran.ir/default.aspx?tabid=77&ArticleId=1575 International Exhibition of Works of Stuckist Artists in Tehran] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508234450/http://en.tehran.ir/default.aspx?tabid=77&ArticleId=1575 |date=8 May 2015 }}, Tehran Municipality website. Retrieved 20 October 2014.</ref> Although one of the main aspects of Stuckism movement is that "the Stuckist allows him/herself uncensored expression";<ref name=stuckistmanifest/> however, ''The Tehran Stuckists''' exhibitions in Iran are censored and they are not allowed to exhibit some of their artworks in Iranian galleries.<ref name=articlesaboutart>"Articles about Art 2": ''Analytic Study of Stuckism Movement in Paintings'' {{in lang|fa}}, Tayebeh Rouzbahani, page 237, [http://www.daryabeygipublications.com/ Daryabeygi publications] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019233257/http://www.daryabeygipublications.com/ |date=19 October 2014 }}, 2014, {{ISBN|978-600-93925-2-0}}.</ref> The group has also participated in Stuckist exhibitions in Britain, Lithuania and Spain.<ref name=exhibitions/>

Other Asian Stuckists are Shelley Li (China), Smeetha Boumik (India), Joko Apridinoto (Indonesia), Elio Yuri Figini (Japan) and Fady Chamaa (Lebanon).<ref name=stuckistgroups/>

===Europe===
[[File:roteskliff.jpg|thumb|[[Peter Klint]]. ''Rotes Kliff'', 2008]]
''The Prague Stuckists'' were founded in 2005 in the Czech Republic by [[Robert Janás]],<ref name=stuckistgroups/><ref name=LucieSmith>[[Charles Thomson (artist)|Charles Thomson]], [[Robert Janás]], [[Edward Lucie-Smith]], "The Enemies of Art: The Stuckists" (2011), p. 8, [http://www.victoriapress.co.uk/ Victoria Press] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218183410/http://www.victoriapress.co.uk/ |date=18 December 2014 }}, {{ISBN|978-0-907165-31-6}}.</ref> Other Stuckist artists in Europe include [[Peter Klint]] (Germany), [[Michael Dickinson (artist)|Michael Dickinson]] (Turkey), [[Odysseus Yakoumakis]] (Greece), Artista Eli (Spain), Kloot Per W (Belgium), Jaroslav Valečka (Czech Republic), [[Jiří Hauschka]] (Czech Republic),<ref name=Enemies>[[Edward Lucie-Smith]], "Stuck Between Prague and London: Paul Harvey Jiri Hauschka Edgeworth Johnstone Charles Thomson Jaroslav Valecka" (2013), [http://www.victoriapress.co.uk/ Victoria Press] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218183410/http://www.victoriapress.co.uk/ |date=18 December 2014 }}, {{ISBN|978-0-907165-33-0}}. As available on Amazon.co.uk.</ref>  Markéta Korečková (Czech Republic), Ján Macko (Slovakia) and Pavel Lefterov (Bulgaria).<ref name=stuckistgroups/>

===Oceania===
{{main|Stuckism in Australia}}
In October 2000, Regan Tamanui founded ''The Melbourne Stuckists'' in Melbourne,<ref>[http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/stuckists/international/ "International Stuckists"], [[Walker Art Gallery]], [[National Museums Liverpool]]. Retrieved 15 November 2008.</ref> 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, Cornwall|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''.<ref>[http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/stuckists/international/godfreyblow.asp "Godfrey Blow"], [[Walker Art Gallery]], [[National Museums Liverpool]]. Retrieved 15 November 2008. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201155232/http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/stuckists/international/godfreyblow.asp |date=1 December 2008 }}</ref> In 2005 Mike Mayhew also founded ''The Christchurch Stuckists'' in New Zealand.<ref name=stuckistgroups/>

==Ex-Stuckists==
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]].

[[File:Vote Stuckist 2001 Machine and Vine (2).jpg|thumb|[[Stella Vine]] (right) with Charlotte Gavin (left) and [[Joe Machine]] at the ''Vote Stuckist'' show in 2001, where her work was first shown publicly.<ref name=sos23/>]]

In June 2000, Stella Vine went to a talk given by Childish and Thomson on Stuckism and Remodernism in London.<ref name=salon>[http://www.stuckism.com/StellaVine/Salon.html "Stella Vine the Stuckist in photos"], stuckism.com. Retrieved 18 December 2008.</ref> 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.<ref name=sos23>
[[Charles Thomson (artist)|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 [http://www.stuckism.com/Walker/AStuckistOnStuckism.html#Vine stuckism.com].</ref> On 4 June, she took part in a Stuckist [[Stuckist demonstrations#Trafalgar Square|demonstration in Trafalgar Square]].<ref name=salon/><ref>[http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/1318399/Getty-Images-Entertainment?axd=DetailPaging.Search%7c1&axs=0%7c56344716%2c56270150%2c56270140%2c56270139%2c56270138%2c56270137%2c56270136%2c56270135%2c56270134%2c56270133%2c56270132%2c56270131%2c56270130%2c56270128%2c56270101%2c56270100%2c56270099%2c56270095%2c56270093%2c56270092%2c56270091%2c56270090%2c3120280%2c3120146%2c3120112%2c3120109%2c3107445%2c1318401%2c1318399 "New sculpture in London's Trafalgar Square"], [[Getty Images]], 4 June 2001. Retrieved 6 January 2008.</ref> By 10 July, she had renamed her group The Unstuckists.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20011015205854/http://www.stuckism.com/news.html#unstuck Stuckism news: Westminster Stuckists come unstuck"], stuckism.com, 10 July 2001. Retrieved from [[Internet Archive]], 9 January 2009.</ref> In mid-August, Thomson and Vine married.<ref>"Trouble and strife", ''[[London Evening Standard]]'', p. 12, 20 August 2001.</ref> 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,<ref name=sos23/> 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.<ref name=alleyne2>Alleyne, Richard. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1455547/The-Saatchi-effect-has-customers-queueing-for-new-artist.html "The 'Saatchi effect' has customers queueing for new artist"], ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', 28 February 2004. Retrieved 10 January 2008.</ref> 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",<ref name=stummer>Stummer, Robin. [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/charles-saatchi-abuses-his-hold-on-british-art-market-567914.html "Charles Saatchi 'abuses his hold on British art market'"], ''[[The Independent on Sunday]]'', 28 March 2004. Retrieved 17 December 2008.</ref> citing Vine as an example of this.<ref name=renton>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.</ref> 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."<ref>[http://www.stuckism.com/Saatchi/SaatchiOFT.html#Conclusion Charles Saatchi reported to OFT: OFT conclusion"], stuckism.com. Retrieved 10 January 2009.</ref>

==Responses and critique==
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 art]]ists 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."<ref name=satirists>Gibbons, Fiachra (1999)[https://www.theguardian.com/turner1999/Story/0,12119,201733,00.html "Satirists Jump into Tracey's Bed"]''[[The Guardian]]'' online, 25 October 1999. Retrieved 22 March 2006.</ref> 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".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jones |first1=Jonathan |title=The Stuckists are enemies of art |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/oct/01/art-stuckist-manifesto |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=16 March 2015|date=2 October 2009}}</ref>

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".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Podstolski |first1=Max |title=Head vs. Heart: a Critique of the Stuckist Manifesto |url=http://www.spark-online.com/issue32/podstolski.html |journal=Spark-online |access-date=16 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130328082935/http://www.spark-online.com/issue32/podstolski.html |archive-date=28 March 2013 |date=May 2002 |volume=32 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Winkleman |first1=Edward |title=The Stuckists |url=http://www.edwardwinkleman.com/2006/08/stuckists.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121124072909/http://www.edwardwinkleman.com/2006/08/stuckists.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 November 2012 |access-date=16 March 2015 |date=28 August 2006 }}</ref><!--Winkleman is notable in this context, read above for why-->

Also in 2006, Colin Gleadell, writing in ''[[Daily Telegraph|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."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Gleadell|first1=Colin|title=Market news: Roger Hilton's child-like drawings, 'stuckist' paintings and Edward Seago|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3655699/Market-news-Roger-Hiltons-child-like-drawings-stuckist-paintings-and-Edward-Seago.html|newspaper=The Telegraph|access-date=17 March 2015|date=3 October 2006}}</ref>

[[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".<ref name=TakeThat>Vallely, Paul. "Tate that: Serota defies his critics", ''[[The Independent]]'', 16 August 2008. Retrieved 21 February 2024</ref> 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".<ref name=TakeThat />

The BBC arts correspondent Lawrence Pollard wrote in 2009 that the way was paved for "cultural agitators" like the Stuckists, as well as the [[Vorticism|Vorticists]], [[Surrealism|Surrealists]] and others, by the ''[[Futurist Manifesto]]'' of 20 February 1909.<ref>{{cite web |title=Back to the Futurists |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7894877.stm |publisher=BBC |access-date=17 March 2015 |date=20 February 2009}}</ref>

==Gallery==
Some UK Stuckist artists' work:
<gallery widths="140px" heights="140px" perrow="4">
Image:Philip Absolon. Breakdown.jpg|[[Philip Absolon]]. ''Breakdown'' (uploaded 2008, date of creation not known)
Image:John Bourne. Epsom Kitchen.jpg|[[John Bourne (artist)|John Bourne]]. ''Epsom Kitchen'' (uploaded 2008<!--date of creation not known-->)
Image:Mark D. Victoria Beckham.jpg|[[Mark D]]. ''Victoria Beckham: America Doesn't Love Me'' (uploaded 2008<!--date of creation not known-->)
Image:Elsa Dax. Bacchus.jpg|[[Elsa Dax]]. ''Bacchus'' (uploaded 2008<!--date of creation not known-->)
Image:Eamon Everall. The Marriage.jpg|[[Eamon Everall]]. ''The Marriage'' (uploaded 2008<!--date of creation not known-->)
Image:Ella Guru, Goodbye Columbus.jpg|[[Ella Guru]]. ''Goodbye Columbus'', (uploaded 2008<!--date of creation not known-->)
Image:Paul Harvey, Ford Anglia with Tent and Giotto Tree.jpg|[[Paul Harvey (artist)|Paul Harvey]]. ''Ford Anglia with Tent and Giotto Tree''  (uploaded 2008<!--date of creation not known-->)
Image:Jane Kelly. Psychosis 1.jpg|[[Jane Kelly (artist)|Jane Kelly]]. ''If We Could Undo Psychosis 1'' (uploaded 2008<!--date of creation not known-->)
Image:Bill Lewis. The Laughter of Small White Dogs.jpg|[[Bill Lewis]]. ''The Laughter of Small White Dogs'' (uploaded 2008<!--date of creation not known-->)
Image:Joe Machine, Diana Dors with an Axe.jpg|[[Joe Machine]]. ''Diana Dors with an Axe'' (uploaded 2008<!--date of creation not known-->)
Image:Peter McArdle, Artist and Model.jpg|[[Peter McArdle]]. ''Artist and Model'' (uploaded 2008<!--date of creation not known-->)
Image:Charles Thomson. A Single Woman in London.jpg|[[Charles Thomson (artist)|Charles Thomson]]. ''A Single Woman in London Is Never more than Six Inches from the Nearest Rat'' (uploaded 2008<!--date of creation not known-->)
</gallery>

==See also==
{{colbegin}}
* {{annotated link|List of Stuckist artists}}
* {{annotated link|List of Stuckist shows}}
* {{annotated link|Remodernism}}
* {{annotated link|Dogme 95}}
* {{annotated link|Neomodernism}}
* {{annotated link|New Puritans}}
* {{annotated link|Wesley Kimler}} (anti-conceptual artist)
{{colend}}

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==Further reading==
* 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 (artist)|Charles Thomson]], Robert Janás, [[Edward Lucie-Smith]], "The Enemies of Art: The Stuckists", Victoria Press, 2011, {{ISBN|0-907165-31-1}}.
* Gabriela Luciana Lakatos, [https://web.archive.org/web/20111216045054/http://www.uad.ro/storage/Dataitems/rezumat%20Thesis%20summary%20LAKATOS%20GABRIELA%20LUCIANA%20-engleza.pdf Expressionism Today] (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==
{{Commons category|Stuckism}}
{{Wikiquote|Charles Thomson (artist)}}
{{Wikiquote|Billy Childish}}
* [http://www.stuckism.com/ Stuckism International]
* [http://www.trakmarx.com/2004_02/10_billy.htm Billy Childish interviewed about Stuckism]
* [http://www.thethingis.co.uk/index.php/2007/10/15/tti-speak-to-charles-thomson/ Charles Thomson Interviewed about Stuckism] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071120015706/http://www.thethingis.co.uk/index.php/2007/10/15/tti-speak-to-charles-thomson/ |date=20 November 2007 }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060901031038/http://www.stuckismus.de/ Stuckism in Germany]
* [http://praguestuckists.eu/ Prague Stuckists]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090130112651/http://tehranstuckism.ir/ Tehran Stuckists]
* [http://www.centraleuropestuckists.eu/ Central Europe Stuckists] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130331205642/http://www.centraleuropestuckists.eu/ |date=31 March 2013 }}

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