Charles Thomson (artist)

Charles Thomson is an English artist, poet and photographer. In the early 1980s he was a member of The Medway Poets. In 1999 he named and cofounded the Stuckists art movement with Billy Childish. He has curated Stuckist shows, organised demonstrations against the Turner Prize, run an art gallery, stood for parliament and reported Charles Saatchi to the OFT. He is frequently quoted in the media as an opponent of conceptual art. He was briefly married to artist Stella Vine.

Charles Thomson was born in Romford, London Borough of Havering, East London, and educated at Brentwood School, Essex, where he was a classmate of Douglas Adams. While still at school, he organised mixed media arts events and contributed to Broadsheet, a magazine edited by Paul Neil Milne Johnstone and published by Artsphere, a school arts group. Outside school, he started the Havering Arts Lab. this resulted in a headline Sex Orgy TaleGroup Banned in the local Havering Express newspaper. In 1970 he produced a satirical magazine, called Lubricant, which ran forissues. In 1971 he stood as a Dwarf candidate in the Havering council elections, and was involved in antipollution protests. He distributed underground magazines around London, including Schoolkids OZ. In 1975 he went to Maidstone College of Art, where he was the only person in ten years to fail the painting degree. 197987 he worked parttime as a telephonist and receptionist at Kent County Ophthalmic and Aural Hospital. 1987

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