The Stuckist's Last Supper. Click here for larger images and details.

18 March – 9 April
FUNISM
The Gallery at Willesden Green.
Willesden Green Library Centre, 95 High Road
Willesden Green
London NW10 2SF

Funism with a side order of Stuckism.

Art should be as much fun to look at as it is to think about, art should be intellectually engaging without being elitist. The exhibition takes us out of our comfort zone. Norm Magnusson Funism Artist, began creating allegorical animal paintings with pointed social commentaries. Eventually he became more and more interested in political art and its potential for persuasion.

Stuckism is an international art movement that was founded in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figuartive painting in opposition to conceptual art. The Stuckist have staged shows and gained media attention for outspoken comments and demonstrations, particularly outside Tate Britain against the Turner Prize, sometimes dressed in clown costumes.

Funism and Stuckism both promote enjoyable and accessible art firmly rooted in our own times. Norm Magnusson’s quote about art that is “…aesthetically pleasing, emotionally uplifting, and intellectually challenging without being intellectually elitist” could also apply to many of the Stuckists’ paintings. Likewise the more playful side of Stuckism includes humour and absurdity also found in Funism.

This show features an eclectic mixes from various artists associated with Stuckism, Funism, both, and neither.

Ella Guru, Sexton Ming, Kyla Bullows, Norm Magnusson, Anna Page, Lou M, Chris Yates, El Tel, Simon A Goodall, Richard Smyth and Simon Bullows.

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27 March:
CLUB HELL presents THE NIGHT GALLERY
7PM til late/ FREE ENTRY/ PANGEA PROJECT
72 Stamford Hill
London N16 6XS

07853 725 476‎

Club Hell Rides Again!

Exhibition opening with new Art work by ELLA GURU and ADELE ELIZABETH Fabulous creatures and fantastical chimeras plucked from the London world..

D-66: Legendary howling blues tornado. http://www.myspace.com/d66isd77

SQUIRREL SKIN SLIPPERS: Link Wray and Poison Ivy of The Cramps got trashed on moonshine one lost weekend, and spawned this lot. http://www.myspace.com/squirrelskinslippers

Plus Special Guests, French Garage Go-Go music, Psych Cinema, Mariachi Madness, Hardcore Blues, Delirious Visuals and much more... Visit http://www.myspace.com/welcometoclubhell for more...

The paintings are only up for TWO DAYS – they will also be up for Resonance FM's gLASS shrimp show on the 28^th.

www.pangeaproject.co.uk

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18-24   March. PV 17 March –
The Cambridge Stuckists Present: The Enemies of Art Show
XVIII Jesus Lane Gallery Cambridge
19 Jesus Lane
Cambridge CB5 8BQ

Curated by D Udaiyan.

We (The Stuckists) were referred to as the Enemies of Art by the Guardian Art Critic: Jonathan Jones.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/oct/01/art-stuckist-manifesto

But in fact it is he and conceptual artists he champions that are the real enemies of art. This show will demonstrate that fact both directly and indirectly through the medium of painting.

The show's theme is a return to an idealisation of figurative art which has both a spiritual and political dimension and yet is beyond both. We will show pieces that will stimulate thoughts and emotions –ask questions and attempt to answer them.  We will show paintings that are visual puzzles to be solved and in solving them will allow the viewer to come away something they hadn’t had before.

The paintings we will show will also engender feelings, stories, aesthetic truths and falsehoods. Most of all it will be a collective idea – to be shared and digested with others and make them question the work and their own thoughts and finally uplift them to a higher plane.

The art we will show will not be conceptual, i.e. there will be visual evidence of painterly skill, creativity, historical context and thought gone into producing the pieces and the show.

The show will take place on March 17th 2010 – March 24th 2010  at the
XVIII JESUS LANE Gallery
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XVIII JESUS LANE Gallery
18 Jesus Lane,
Cambridge CB5 8BQ