A group focusing on Stuckist and Remodernist art. This group is open to all Stuckist/Remodernist artists as well as others interested in the new and controversial art movement.

Stuckism was founded in London in 1999 by Billy Childish* and Charles Thomson, and champions a return to spirituality and emotional meaning in art, and opposes post-modernism.


"Being a spiritual artist means addressing unflinchingly our projections, good and bad, the attractive and the grotesque, our strengths as well as our delusions, in order to know ourselves and thereby our true relationship with others and our connection to the divine.

Spiritual art is not about fairyland. It is about taking hold of the rough texture of life. It is about addressing the shadow and making friends with wild dogs. Spirituality is the awareness that everything in life is for a higher purpose.

Spiritual art is the painting of things that touch the soul of the artist. Spiritual art does not mean the painting of Madonnas or Buddhas.

Spiritual art does not often look very spiritual, it looks like everything else because spirituality includes everything.

Spiritual art mediates between the mundane and the unconscious. By definition, the unconscious is what we need to explore and integrate.

It should be noted that technique is dictated by, and only necessary to the extent to which it is commensurate with, the vision of the artist.

Spiritual art is not religion. Spirituality is humanity's quest to understand itself and finds its symbology through the clarity and integrity of its artists."

- from the manifesto 'Remodernism- towards a new spirituality in art'- Billy Childish and Charles Thomson, 1999

Stuckism:
http://www.stuckism.com

Remodernist Film and Photography:
http://www.remodernist.com

The Stuckist
Photographers:
http://www.stuckismphotography.com

The Defastenists- a new Remodernist group founded in Dublin in 2004:
http://www.defastenism.4t.com

*Billy has since left the group.