Go West (exhibition)
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Go West is the title of the first exhibition by Stuckist artists in a commercial London West End gallery. It was staged in Spectrum London gallery in October 2006. The show attracted media interest for its location, for the use of a painting satirising Sir Nicholas Serota, Director of the Tate gallery, and for two paintings of a stripper by Charles Thomson based on his former wife, artist Stella Vine.
Spectrum London gallery, September 2006, during the Stuckists Go West show.
Exhibiting artist, Ella Guru, is interviewed at Spectrum London gallery during the show by Richard Quest of CNN International.
Charles Thomson. Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision.
Charles Thomson. Stripper.
Stuckism
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Stuckism is an international art movement founded in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figurative painting as opposed to conceptual art. By May 2017 the initial group of 13 British artists had expanded to 236 groups in 52 countries.
Sexton Ming, Tracey Emin, Charles Thomson, Billy Childish and musician Russell Wilkinson at the Rochester Adult Education Centre to record The Medway Poets LP, 11 December 1987.
The first Stuckists group of 13 artists at the Real Turner Prize Show, Pure Gallery, Shoreditch, London, in October 2000
Stuck! Stuck! Stuck!, the first Stuckist show, 1999
Stuckism International Gallery