Charles Thomson

1953 born, Romford, Essex.
1979 founder member of The Medway Poets.
1999 co-founded the Stuckists art group (pro-painting, anti-conceptual art)
2000-20 organised anti-Turner Prize demos at Tate Britain
2001 stood in the General Election against Chris Smith, Culture Minister. Briefly married to Stella Vine
2002-06 Director of the Stuckism International Gallery in Shoreditch
2005 instigated press controversy over the purchase by the Tate of its trustee Chris Ofili's work, The Upper Room
2008 Launched online petition to the prime minister not to reappoint Sir Nicholas Serota as Tate gallery director:

I sold my first artwork age five and have been doing creative things most of my life, writing, painting, organising events. I paint what is important to me and this is emotionally and instinctively driven. I want to make direct images that people can relate to.

1964-70 Brentwood School, Essex
1973-75 Thurrock Technical College, Art Foundation
1975-79 Maidstone College of Art, FFIAD (First Fail in a Decade)

SOLO SHOWS

2015
Crazy Over You in Prague, Cerna labut gallery, Prague

2014
Crazy Over You, Trispace Gallery, London
Drawings, Pugmire's Pizza Party, London

2002
I Need More Space, The Rivington Gallery, London
Paintings, Home, London

2001
Paintings, Kudos Wine Bar, London

2000
Famous Paintings (prints), Di Cerbo Gallery, Pesaro, Italy

1999
Paintings, Timothy Hill & Co, London

1998
Famous Paintings (prints), Sassoon Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Famous Paintings (prints), Rimini Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Famous Paintings (prints), Stuyvesant Gallery, New York, USA
Retrospective, Sandra’s house, London

1979
Paintings, Peter Waite's Pottery, Rochester

GROUP SHOWS

2016
Art on a Postcard, The Hepatitis C Trust, London
The Stuckists Art Show and Summer Sale, View Two Gallery, Liverpool
Eroticop, White Trash Gallery, Illinois, USA

2015
Stuckism: Remodernising the Mainstream, Studio 3 Gallery, University of Kent
The Other Summer Exhibition, Lollipop Gallery, London
One Love/Un amor, Festival Arte Sano, San Pedro de Alcántara, Andalusia, Spain

2014
Burlesque, Trispace Gallery, London
Stuck in Vltavín, Vltavín Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic. Curator Kateřina Tučková
Celebration, C3 G...