Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Aquisitions Decision, 2000, painting by Charles Thomson Charles Thomson (born February 6, 1953) is a British artist, painter, poet, photographer. In the early 1980s he was a member of The Medway Poets, during which time he was friends with Tracey Emin. In 1999 he named and co-founded the Stuckists art movement with Billy Childish. He has curated Stuckist shows, organised demonstrations against the Turner Prize, run an art gallery, stood for parliament and reported Charles Saatchi to the OFT. He is frequently quoted in the media as an opponent of conceptual art. He was briefly married to artist Stella Vine. Image File history File links Thomson,_Serota_Aquisition. ...
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Sexton Ming, Tracey Emin, Charles Thomson, Billy Childish and musician Russell Wilkinson at the Rochester Adult Education Centre December 11, 1987 to record the Medway Poets LP Bill Lewis, Sexton Ming, Rob Earl and Billy Childish: in Yoga position - August 2003 The Medway Poets were founded in North Kent in...
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The Stuckists Punk Victorian show at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2004 Stuckism is a British art movement founded in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figurative painting in opposition to conceptual art. ...
This is This album by Billy Childishs current band, the Buff Medways Billy Childish (real name William Charlie Hamper, or Steven John Hamper) (born December 1, 1959) is a British artist, author, poet, singer and guitarist. ...
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Early life
Charles Thomson was born in Romford, England, and educated at Brentwood School, Essex, where he was class mates with Douglas Adams. While still at school he organised mixed media arts events and started the Havering Arts Lab. this resulted in a headline "Sex Orgy Tale—Group Banned" in the local Havering Express newspaper. In 1971 he stood (unsuccessfully) as a Dwarf candidate in the Havering council elections, and was involved in ant-pollution protests. He distributed "underground" magazines around London, including "Schoolkids Oz". In 1975 he went to Maidstone College of Art, where he was the only person in ten years to fail the painting degree. 1979–87 he worked part-time as a telephonist and receptionist at Kent County Ophthalmic and Aural Hospital. 1987–99 he was a full-time poet, with work in over 100 anthologies.[1] Romford is a town in East London, England. ...
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The Medway Poets - Main article: The Medway Poets
In 1979, Thomson was a founder member of The Medway Poets, a punk performance group, who read in pubs, as well as the Kent Literature Festival and the 1981 Cambridge International Poetry Festival. There were, however, personality clashes in the group, particularly between Billy Childish and Thomson, who said, "There was friction between us, especially when he started heckling my poetry reading and I threatened to ban him from a forthcoming TV documentary." [2]However, a TV South documentary on the group in 1982 brought them to a wider regional audience. According to Childish: "Me & Charles were at war from 1979 until 1999. He even threatened having bouncers on the doors of Medway poet’s readings to keep me out."[3] Thomson has said this period was "an incredibly pressured and creative time and established the basis on which we are still working."[4] Other members included future Stuckist artists Bill Lewis and Sexton Ming. Tracey Emin, then a local student, was a friend. In 1987 Thomson printed her first book of writing, Turkish Tales, which had been edited by Lewis and was published by Childish.[5] Sexton Ming, Tracey Emin, Charles Thomson, Billy Childish and musician Russell Wilkinson at the Rochester Adult Education Centre December 11, 1987 to record the Medway Poets LP Bill Lewis, Sexton Ming, Rob Earl and Billy Childish: in Yoga position - August 2003 The Medway Poets were founded in North Kent in...
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Sexton Ming (born in Gravesend, Kent England in 1961) is a British artist, poet and musician who was a founding member of The Medway Poets (1979) and the Stuckists art group (1999). ...
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Sexton Ming, Tracey Emin, Charles Thomson, Billy Childish and musician Russell Wilkinson at the Rochester Adult Education Centre December 11, 1987 to record the Medway Poets LP Bill Lewis, Sexton Ming, Rob Earl and Billy Childish: in Yoga position - August 2003 The Medway Poets were founded in North Kent in...
Sexton Ming, Tracey Emin, Charles Thomson, Billy Childish and musician Russell Wilkinson at the Rochester Adult Education Centre December 11, 1987 to record the Medway Poets LP Bill Lewis, Sexton Ming, Rob Earl and Billy Childish: in Yoga position - August 2003 The Medway Poets were founded in North Kent in...
This is This album by Billy Childishs current band, the Buff Medways Billy Childish (real name William Charlie Hamper, or Steven John Hamper) (born December 1, 1959) is a British artist, author, poet, singer and guitarist. ...
God Is an Atheist: She Doesnt Believe in Me, by Bill Lewis, between 1997 and 2001. ...
Sexton Ming (born in Gravesend, Kent England in 1961) is a British artist, poet and musician who was a founding member of The Medway Poets (1979) and the Stuckists art group (1999). ...
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Stuckism - Main article: Stuckism
 A Long Way from Greece by Charles Thomson In 1999 Thomson was reconciled with Childish and together they founded the Stuckists art group with eleven other artists. Thomson coined the name "Stuckism" after an insult from Tracey Emin to ex-boyfriend Childish that he was "stuck", which Childish had recorded in a poem. The group stated its aims as promoting figurative painting and opposing conceptual art, being particularly critical of the Turner Prize and Charles Saatchi's promotion of Britart. Childish left after two years and Thomson remained as the figurehead, gaining extensive media coverage for his activities and outspoken views. In the meantime the Stuckists grew to a worldwide movement of over 100 groups in 30 countries. The Stuckists Punk Victorian show at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2004 Stuckism is a British art movement founded in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figurative painting in opposition to conceptual art. ...
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The Stuckists Punk Victorian show at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2004 Stuckism is a British art movement founded in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figurative painting in opposition to conceptual art. ...
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2000-5 he staged yearly Stuckist demonstrations against the Turner Prize (making use of props such as clown costumes and blow-up sex dolls). He stood for the United Kingdom general election, 2001 as a Stuckist candidate against the then-Culture Secretary, Chris Smith. The same year he exhibited the then-unknown artist, Stella Vine (later made famous by Charles Saatchi). The couple married in New York and separated after two months. The Turner Prize is an annual prize given to a British visual artist under 50, named after the painter J.M.W. Turner. ...
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Christopher Robert Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, PC (born 24 July 1951) is a British Labour Party politician and former Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister. ...
Stella Vine is an artist in London. ...
Charles Saatchi, born June 9, 1943, is the founder of the global advertising agency Saatchi and Saatchi, which was the worlds biggest before he and his brother Maurice left and formed M&C Saatchi. ...
Thomson opened the Stuckism International Gallery in Shoreditch (2002-2005). In 2004 he reported Saatchi to the OFT (Office of Fair Trading) for alleged unfair trading practices in the art world: the complaint was not upheld. He co-curated the Stuckists' first major exhibition in a public gallery, The Stuckists Punk Victorian show at the Walker Art Gallery, for the 2004 Liverpool Biennial. In 2005 he offered of a donation of 175 paintings by Stuckists artists from the Walker Gallery show to the Tate Gallery: this was rejected by the trustees. Later that year he obtained Tate Gallery minutes about the purchase of a trustee Chris Ofili's work The Upper Room under the Freedom of Information Act. This led to an ongoing press controversy about the purchase [1]. Shoreditch Town Hall Shoreditch is a district within the London Borough of Hackney. ...
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Thomson will be exhibiting paintings and presenting an academic paper in both the Triumph of Stuckism exhibition and symposium respectively in October 2006. Both these events are being organised by Naive John for the 2006 Liverpool Biennial at the invitation of prof. Colin Fallows, Chair of Contextual Studies at Liverpool School of Art and Design. Art takes a Holiday by Naive John Naive John (born October 18 , 1962) is a British Stuckist artist and figurative painter. ...
Art
 I Feel Bad When I Reject Your Love by Charles Thomson Thomson typically paints figuratively with black outlines and areas of flat colour, often brightly coloured. The painting, I Feel Bad When I Reject Your Love is not typical in this respect. He has commented on it: Image File history File linksMetadata Thomson-Love. ...
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- "Based on something a (now ex) girlfriend said to me. I thought it was a negative picture, but then I realised it was positive because it’s a reconciliation after self-knowledge. It’s also ambiguous as to who’s speaking. Most of my paintings are based on experiences with people I know, usually on a drawing from life, but in this case from a photo I took of her. She can’t really complain because she exhibits nude paintings of me."[1]
His satirical painting of Sir Nicholas Serota has been widely reproduced in the media and become a Stuckist icon. It has been reviewed:
 | Thomson has painted what must be the masterpiece of Stuckism so far: Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision. Here the slick handling and smartass irony of Britart are turned on its champion to make a very funny point and a rather good portrait. This is an example of what the Situationists called detournement, using your enemies' own weapons against him.[6] |
 | However, Sarah Kent (a staunch advocate of Britart) was less impressed with the satire: "One might forgive his puerile humour if Thomson didn't consider it a serious weapon ... cut the ranting and Thomson could be a reasonable painter."[7] Thomson pointed out in response, "it's reality. A few weeks after I did the painting, Tracey Emin was shown on TV getting very angry about an installation because someone had substituted another pair of knickers for hers ... That makes it a bit sad."[8] Image File history File links Cquote1. ...
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The Situationist International (SI), an international political and artistic movement, originated in the Italian village of Cosio dArroscia on 28 July 1957 with the fusion of several extremely small artistic tendencies: the Lettrist International, the International movement for an imaginist Bauhaus, and the London Psychogeographical Association. ...
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The paintings are based on spontaneous line drawings with a black wax crayon in a sketchbook. These are enlarged on the canvas. The colour is usually the first one on the canvas, though mixing it can take up to an hour. He likens colour to feeling and concludes:
- "The final image is a synthesis of material, emotional and spiritual experience."[1]
Quotes Thomson has been the main spokesperson for the Stuckists, articulating their approach to art in essays, interviews and press comments. - On Tate Modern: There is something distinctly anal about the combination of theoretical exactitude and vulgar decay that permeates the Tate. It is exemplified by past Turner Prize choices such as Hirst’s cut-up rotting cow’s innards all neatly placed in pristine vitrines, or Starling’s abandoned musty shed cleanly labelled in the middle of a spotless white room. The result of walking round Tate Modern is not an experience of the marvel of creative profundity which gives meaning to life, but more akin to the detritus of a dryly analytical bureaucrat reverting to an infantile stage during an extended breakdown.[9]
- On the 2005 Turner Prize winner, Simon Starling, who turned a shed into a boat and back into a shed: The Turner should be renamed the B&Q diy prize. There are plenty of hobbyists happily occupying themselves in the garden shed doing equally ingenious but ultimately futile enterprises, building Canterbury Cathedral out of matchsticks for example. It’s the sort of thing I had to do when I was in the Scouts. Starling should get his Craft Badge, first class, but not the Turner Prize.[10]
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The Turner Prize is an annual prize given to a British visual artist under 50, named after the painter J.M.W. Turner. ...
Simon Starling (born 1967 in Epsom, Surrey) is a conceptual artist. ...
See also The Stuckists Punk Victorian show at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2004 Stuckism is a British art movement founded in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figurative painting in opposition to conceptual art. ...
Sexton Ming, Tracey Emin, Charles Thomson, Billy Childish and musician Russell Wilkinson at the Rochester Adult Education Centre December 11, 1987 to record the Medway Poets LP Bill Lewis, Sexton Ming, Rob Earl and Billy Childish: in Yoga position - August 2003 The Medway Poets were founded in North Kent in...
Stuckist artists dressed as clowns demonstrate against the Turner Prize, Tate Britain, in 2000 Stuckist demonstrations since 2000 have been a key part of the Stuckist art groups activities and have succeeded in giving them a high profile both in Britain and abroad. ...
The first national gallery exhibition of Stuckist art was at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool from September 18, 2004 - February 20, 2005. ...
Stuckism was started in London in 1999. ...
References - Evans, Katherine, ed. (2000), "The Stuckists" Victoria Press, ISBN 0-907165-27-3
- Milner, Frank, ed. (2004), "The Stuckists Punk Victorian" National Museums Liverpool, ISBN 1-902700-27-9
Notes - ^ a b c Milner p.106
- ^ Interview with Charles Thomson on 3ammagazine.com
- ^ "Billy Childish on Stuckism", trakmarx.com Accessed April 9, 2006
- ^ Interview with Charles Thomson on artistica.com
- ^ Milner p.8
- ^ Dean, Richard (2000)"The Real Turner Prize Show 2000" Imagespeak. Accessed from superhumanism.com, April 17, 2006
- ^ Kent, Sarah (2002) "The Stuckists: Stuckism International Time Out, August 7, 2002. Retrieved from stuckism.com, April 18, 2006
- ^ "Sarah Kent of Time Out Rants" stuckism.com August 7, 2002. Retrieved April 18, 2006
- ^ "Interview with Charles Thomson of the Stuckists" artistica.com, January 29, 2005. Retrieved March 28, 2006
- ^ Alberge, Dalya (2005)"One Man and His Boat Sail into a Storm over the Turner" The Times, December 6, 2006. Retrieved March 28, 2006
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