The Stuckists Punk Victorian
This exhibition was held at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool from 18 September 2004 - 20 February 2005.
18 September - 20 February 2005
This exhibition is now closed
Stuckism is a radical and controversial art group that 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 told him that his art was 'stuck'. The Stuckists stand for contemporary figurative painting with ideas. They oppose conceptual art, mainly because of what they regard as its lack of concepts.
As well as staging numerous exhibitions, the 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." They have disseminated these ideas, and in five years Stuckism has grown to an international art movement with some ninety groups round the world.
The Stuckists Punk Victorian was the first major exhibition of work by The Stuckists to be held in a public gallery. The Walker Art Gallery exhibition featured a wide selection of Stuckist paintings. The Lady Lever featured 18 paintings on the theme of ‘Art and Artists’. These included new interpretations of favourite classics by Gainsborough, Hals and Seurat. Also on show was the first major national display of photographs by the Stuckist Photographers.
VISITOR NOTICE: THE STUCKISTS PUNK VICTORIAN
Stuckist artists believe in 'honest and uncensored expression'. Their wide range of subject matter includes themes of a sexual and violent nature.
