International art movement for contemporary figurative painting with ideas. Anti the pretensions of conceptual art. Anti-anti-art. The first Remodernist art group. Daubers (daubing is the new painting). Contents of site here Tel: 020 8343 4282. Email:stuckism@yahoo.co.uk The General Editor of this site is Jim Dennis. For site policy and use of material, see here. There are 197 Stuckist groups in 46 countries.

Michael Dickinson flees Turkey to avoid prosecution for his Good Boy collage after last September's acquittal is overturned. Background here. Dickinson said, "I caught a plane out as soon as I could, leaving most of my possessions behind, including my books, furnishings and computer. I was sad to leave after 23 years in Turkey, but I don't fancy another taste of Turkish hospitality in incarceration." See Coxsoft and The First Post (29.6.09), The Times, The Independent, BBC, Daily Mail, The Northern Echo, Durham Times, Northumberland Gazette and Hürriyet (30.6.09), The Journal, Herald de Paris and ArtInfo (1.7.09). All news results including Turkish language here. Listen to Michael Dickinson on BBC Radio Newcastle or on pop out player. Interview starts halfway through the programme at 01.02. See the collages at the Stuckist show, Not the Groucho Club, Islington Arts Factory, 2 Parkhurst Road, London N7 OSF. Open 10 - 24 July. Mon-Thu 10.00am - 9.45pm, Fri 10am - 6.45pm, Sat 2pm - 5.45pm, Sun 11am - 5.30pm. Private View: 10 July 2009, 7pm - 9pm.

On 23.6.09, Tate Members received an email with a subject heading of "Expect the unexpected at Tate" and the above image (albeit without the last three lines of text) plus a "donate" button and a "where your money goes" button. Clicking the latter shows a picture of the Chapman Family Collection, which was sold to the Tate for £1,500,000 by Charles Saatchi, who bought it from the White Cube gallery for £1,000,000 (see The Independent 25.9.08). Surely the picture on display should be one of Saatchi.

FUTURISM SHOW AT THE TATE

Tom Sutcliffe in The Independent (19.6.09) commends as "wonderfully galvanising" the Futurist manifesto, which wants to "glorify war - the only cure for the world - militarism ... and contempt for woman, " but finds the Stuckist manifesto is "a hopeless reactionary whinge."

Charles Thomson letter to The Independent (5th section) (16.6.09) says Stuckism is not a joke, after Tom Lubbock in The Independent (15.6.09) says Stuckism is a joke. Mark Lawson in The Guardian (12.6.09) coins a new term for Stuckists as "young British painters".

There is a more in-depth view by Lawrence Pollard on the BBC site (20.2.09): hear the Stuckist manifesto here.

Read The Other Muswell Hill Stuckists manifesto here - issued 100 years after the Futurist manifesto.

Jim White in The Daily Telegraph (12.6.09) satire: "Germaine Greer: Save Ronaldo for the nation ... Spare me the rant about the schlock of the new, will ya, all that blaady-blah Stuckist nonsense about paint and canvas. Quite obviously the presiding art form of the 21st century is the boy ... You want art? Just watch the boy in action running down the wing: that's the real lineal descendant of Michelangelo ... Why does the nation waste money on boring, boring paintings when it should be spending it on ensuring those thighs are on Match of the Day every week?"

Shows

Ella Guru show in The Guardian Pick of the Week. Details here.
"dark fantasy works drawn from the underbelly of London life by the Stuckist painter"

Material recently shown on this page is here.