CV – Ella Guru Art

Ella Guru CV

For teaching experience see also St Mungo’s Artist in Residence and the Drawing and Dancing Society.

Exhibitions: solo

April – June 2024: ‘Jack in the Green revisited’, SEED, Hastings Old Town, East Sussex
April – June 2023: ‘Jack in the Green’, SEED, Hastings Old Town, East Sussex
March 2020: “Czech Collection 2019”, Oscars on the Square, St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex
May-June 2019: “Welcoming the Summer”, SEED, Hastings Old Town, East Sussex
September-October 2017: “Ella Guru Paintings”, SEED, Hastings Old Town, East Sussex
June 2015: “A Year on the Edge”, Whistle Trago, Hastings Old Town, East Sussex
December 2014: “The Ella Guru Tarot”, Susan Diamond, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex
September 2011: “A Feast for Wicked Eyes”, Resistance Gallery, London E8
May-June 2009: “Gods, Demons and Parties”, Intoxica, London W10
August 2005: “Birds of a Feather”, Flaxon Ptootch, London NW1
February 2003: “Guru’s Geese and other waterfowl: paintings and prints”, Ryan’s, London N16
December-January 2001: “Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder”, First Out, London WC2
September-November 2001: “The Beehive Years”, Manto’s, Old Compton Street, London W1
July-August 1999: “The Long Island Iced Tea Party”, Getto, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
May 1999: “New Work”, The Fringe, 76 Oliver Street, Newark, NJ, USA

Exhibitions: group (curated or organised)

October 2012: Stuckist Tarot Project, w Elsa Dax, Islington Arts Factory, London NW1
March 2009: Five Female Stuckists, joint curated, Islington Arts Factory London N7
March 2004: Stuckism International stall at the Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London
April 2003: Art against Iraq war, Stuckism International Gallery, London EC2

Exhibitions: group (participated)

October 2024: “Bright Old Things”, Horse Hospital, Colonade, London WC1N 1JD
August 2024: “BAAM Bottle Alley Art Market”, Hastings sea front
April-May 2024: “Lost and Found”, Atom Gallery, 127 Green Lanes London N16 9DA
July-October 2023: “Stuckism in Ostrove”, Ostrov Summer Palace, Zámecký park 226, Ostrov, Czechia
June-September 2023: “Emerald 20”, St Pancras Hospital Conference Centre, London, UK
June 2023: “A Curious Town Dreams”, Observer Building, Hastings, UK
August- Oct 2022: “Stuck in Venice”, CREA Cantieri del Contemporaneo, Venice, Italy
January 2022: “Together we draw”, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, UK
June 2021: “Underground Hastings Art Show”, The Stade Hall, Hastings, UK
February 2020: “The Beautiful and the Damned”, BSMT Space, London E8
November 2019: “Modern Panic X”, The Truman Brewery, London
November 2018- January 2019: “Colour Me Ecstatic”, St Pancras Conference Centre, London
November 2018: “Modern Panic IX”, The Rose Lipman Building, London
February-May 2018: “Contemporary British Art”, Černá labuť, Prague, Czech Republic
October 2017: “Stuckism in Watkins Glen New York”, Quintus Gallery, NY, USA
November 2016: “The Stuckist Astrology Show”, St Paul’s, Camden Square, London
July-August 2016: “The Stuckist Art Show”, View Two Gallery, Liverpool
October 2015: “Stuckism: Remodernising the mainstream”, University of Kent, Canterbury
August 2015: “Come To The Sabbat, Festival Of Dark Arts”, Apiary Studios, London
July 2015: “The Other Summer Exhibition”, Lollipop Gallery, London
July 2015: “Hand of Artists”, Nucleus Gallery, Chatham, Kent
April 2015: “Sacred and Profane”, 100 Years Gallery, Hoxton, London
January 2015: “Bright Old Things”, Selfridges, Oxford Street, London
September 2014: “Walk on the Wild Side”, Susan Diamond, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex
September 2014: “Femme Fatale”, Trispace Gallery, London SE16
August 2014: “Stuck in a Jewel”, Nucleus Gallery, Chatham, UK
February 2014: “Loudest Whispers”, St Pancras Conference Centre, London NW1
January 2014: “Inventors and Explorers”, Trunk Space, Phoenix AZ USA
November 2013: “International Stuckists: Painters out of Order”, Day Gallery, Tehran, IRAN
November 2013: “TEN”, St Pancras Conference Centre, London NW1
December 2012: “Black Christmas”, Signal Gallery, London EC2
October 2012: “Dare to Wear”, Crypt Gallery, London NW1
September 2012: “Elizabethan Avant Garde”, Bermondsey Project SE1
June 2012: “Remodernist Artists against Rubbish”, Shiraz, Marbella, SPAIN
December 2011: “Fancy Folk: Art and Mummery”, Philadelphia Town Hall, USA
November 2011: “Mexico Siniestro”, Resistance Gallery, London E2
June-July 2011: “Female Iconography”, Chicchi’s, Bow, London E3
April-May 2011: “The Enemies of Art”, Lauderdale House, Highgate, London N6
April 2011: “Paris Stuckist show”, Musée d’Adzak, Paris, FRANCE
Oct 2010-Jan 2011: “Making it/Faking it”, Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham TW1
October 2010: “Flashier and Trashier”, St Pancras Crypt London NW1
March – April 2010: “Funism with a side order of Stuckism”, Willesden Green Library NW10
March 2010: “The Enemies of Art”, Jesus Lane Gallery, Cambridge, England
April 2009: “Stuck on Painting”, W11 Gallery, London W11
November 2008: “An antidote to that ghastly Turner Prize”, View Two Gallery, Liverpool Biennial
May 2008: “Music as Therapy” secret postcard sale, Gillions Art, London SW11
March-April 2008: (You Are Here), RAP Gallery, Leiden, THE NETHERLANDS
November 2007- January 2008: “Urban Nature”, Spectrum, London W1
April 2007: “On Form”, A Gallery, Wimbledon SW19
October 2006: “Go West”, Spectrum, London W1
October 2006: “The Triumph of Stuckism”, John Moores University, Liverpool Biennal
August 2005: Remodernist groups at CBGB 313 GALLERY, 313 Bowery NYC, USA
May 2005: “Paris Stuckist show”, Musée d’Adzak, Paris, FRANCE
September 2004-February 2005: “The Stuckists Punk Victorian”, the Walker Gallery, Liverpool
June 2003: Lewenhagen Gallery, Hanover, GERMANY
October 2002: “Stuck down South”, FAD Gallery, Chinatown, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
August 2002: “Stuck Up North”, Newcastle Arts Centre, Newcastle, UK
May 2001: “M.A.D.E @ Morley”, Morley College, Lambeth North, London
March 2001: The First Remodernist Art Group, Artbank Gallery, Clerkenwell Road, London EC1
October-November 2000: “The Real Turner Prize show 2000”, London & Cornwall
May– October 2000: “STUCK in Germany,” Cologne, Freiburg, Leipzig, Hamburg GERMANY
April 2000: “New paintings by the Stuckists,” The Arts Club, 40 Dover Street, London W2
March 2000: “The Resignation of Sir Nicholas Serota.” Gallery 108, London EC2
September 1999: “Stuck! Stuck! Stuck!” First Stuckist exhibition, Gallery 108, London EC2
October 1998: “Wild Weekend” at the Museum of Pop Culture, Central London

Books

Edward Lucie-Smith, The Enemies of Art (2011), Victoria Press, ISBN 978-0-907165-31-6
An Antidote to the Ghastly Turner Prize (2010), Victoria Press, ISBN-10: 0 90716530 3
Robert Janas (2009) Stuckism International. Victoria Press, ISBN 0 907165 28 1
Max Stout, Max and the Siamese Twins (2009), www.GlubDub.com
Ed. Frank Milner (2004), Punk Victorian, National Museums Liverpool, ISBN 1-902700-27-9
Ed. Katherine Evans (2000), The Stuckists, Victoria Press, ISBN 0-907165-27-3

Lectures

April 2009: Stuckism Powerpoint and talk, Leeds Metropolitan University.
September 2007: Stuckist presentation at Decasia Club, Strongrooms, London
November 2004: Liverpool Biennal, Walker Gallery
July 2003: Shrewsbury Arts Festival, with Richard Cork (The Times) & David Lee (the Jackdaw)

Awards

2017: Judges choice, British Women Artists
2015: Album cover of the Year for Urban Voodoo Machine “Love, Drink and Death”
1999: Visual Arts Award, Ohio State University

Television

March 2018: Czech TV news: “Contemporary British Art”, Černá labuť, Prague, Czech Republic
October 2006: “Quest for Art”, CNN International
2000: “Newsnight”, BBC 2
See www.stuckism.com for more

Collections

Ballhaus Berlin, Germany
Orlicky Zybnek, Prague, Czech Republic
The Von Stockhausen Family, Lewenhagen, Germany
Chris Yates, Manchester, UK
Sue Kreitzman, New York, USA
Hamed Dehnavi, Tehran, Iran
Jenny Valentish, Melbourne, Australia
Karen von Clezie Bartlett, Portland, Oregon, USA