Charles Williams (artist)

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Charles Williams (born March 16, 1965) is a British artist and a founder member of the Stuckist art group.

He was born in Evanston, Illinois USA and raised in England. He was educated at Kent College, Canterbury, Maidstone College of Art and the Royal Academy of Art, London, where in 1992 he won the top prize for painting as well as the prize for anatomical drawing. In 1996 he was elected to the New English Art Club (NEAC) where he is now a committee member and with whom he regularly exhibits in the Mall Galleries in London.

In 1999, along with fellow artist Eamon Everall, he became one of the 12 original founder members of Stuckism, the radical anti-conceptual art movement. Williams exhibited regularly with the Stuckists and was a featured artist in their major show, The Stuckists Punk Victorian, at the Walker Art Gallery, during the 2004 Liverpool Biennial. He left the Stuckists in 2006.

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Ed. Katherine Evans (2000), "The Stuckists" Victoria Press, ISBN 0-907165-27-3
Ed. Frank Milner (2004), "The Stuckists Punk Victorian" National Museums Liverpool, ISBN 1-902700-27-9