Stuckism International Gallery, Art gallery in Shoreditch, London, England
Stuckism International Gallery was an art gallery housed in a four-story Victorian warehouse on Charlotte Road in Shoreditch, London. The space was split across several floors, with areas used both for exhibitions and as working studios for artists.
The gallery opened in 2002 with a procession that carried a cardboard coffin to the nearby White Cube gallery as a protest against conceptual art. It closed in 2005, leaving behind a three-year run that made it one of the most openly oppositional art spaces London had seen in that period.
The gallery showed paintings by Stuckist artists from many countries, with a focus on portraits and figures rather than abstract forms. Visitors could see work that put people and stories at the center, which was unusual for the Shoreditch art scene at the time.
The gallery was on Charlotte Road in Shoreditch, a short walk from several other art spaces in the area. It closed in 2005 and no longer operates, so the building can only be seen from the outside today.
During the filming of a BBC2 television series, the front of the building was dressed as a sex shop in the style of the 1960s and 1970s. The Victorian facade turned out to be well suited to that kind of period transformation for film sets.
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