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Joe Machine (born Joseph Stokes,〔Buckman, David (2006), ''Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945'', p.1018, Art Dictionaries, Bristol, 2006, ISBN 0-9532609-5-X〕 6 April 1973) is an English artist, poet and writer. He is a founding member of the Stuckists art group.〔Milner, Frank ed. (2004), ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', p.90, National Museums Liverpool, ISBN 1-902700-27-9〕 His work has been called "raw and autobiographical".〔("Go West" ), ''The Daily Telegraph''. Retrieved 29 March 2008. Click to frame 8.〕 ==Life== Joseph Machine was born in Chatham, Kent, and comes from a Romany background on the Isle of Sheppey. In 1988 Machine was sent to Alston House Approved School, Rochester, for the theft of scrap material, and the following year to Dover Borstal for young offenders, after burgling a greengrocers in Leysdown (Isle of Sheppey).〔 He spent time claiming benefits and running the family business, an amusement arcade in Leysdown, as well as breeding Rottweiler dogs and working as a bouncer in South London night clubs.〔 He started painting around 1988 and has not had any formal college art training. He has described creativity as the way out of the background in which he felt trapped: "Painting and writing have been far better for me than any of the mistakes I made in stealing and fighting."〔 Since 1998 he has been having psychotherapy to deal with violence and sex problems. In 1999 he was one of the 13 original founder members of the Stuckists, an anti-conceptual art group co-founded by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson. His painting ''Diana Dors With an Axe'' was used on the front cover of the first book on the group, ''The Stuckists'', and also to promote the show ''The Real Turner Prize Show'' in Shoreditch in 2000. Machine has exhibited widely with the Stuckists, most notably in their first national museum exhibition, at the Walker Art Gallery for the 2004 Liverpool Biennial. The exhibition, titled ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', was a definitive showing of the Stuckist oeuvre, and Machine was one of the "featured artists".〔("The Stuckists Punk Victorian" ), Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool. Retrieved 29 March 2008.〕 Reviewing the Walker show, Mark Lawson commented, referring to Machine's painting, ''Sea Shanty'': :Although they set themselves against conceptual art, they're certainly not standing up for conventional painting. These are very bold and explicit images, particularly a painting over to my left, in which a sailor is taking another sailor from behind... is probably about as far as we can go in describing it. And that is an image, which is very bold, very explicit, and could lead to protests and complaints.〔Lawson, Mark. ("Liverpool Biennial" ), BBC Radio 4 ''Front Row'', 17 September 2004. Retrieved 29 March 2008.〕〔("Joe Machine: Biography" ), stuckism.com. Retrieved 29 March 2008.〕 In January 2005, he took part in a Stuckist protest at the launch of the ''Triumph of Painting'' show at the Saatchi Gallery in London. In December that year he was part of the Stuckist protest outside the Turner Prize at Tate Britain to draw attention to the Tate's purchase of its trustee Chris Ofili's work ''The Upper Room'' and demand the resignation of Tate Director, Sir Nicholas Serota.〔("Turner Prize demo" ), stuckism.com. Retrieved 6 April 2008.〕〔("Shed Wins $58,000 Art Prize" ), ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 6 December 2005. Retrieved 6 April 2008.〕 Machine was one of the ten leading Stuckist artists to show in the Go West at Spectrum London gallery in October 2006,〔("Go West" ), ''The Daily Telegraph''. Retrieved 29 March 2008.〕 where six of his paintings sold in advance of the show opening.〔Gleadell, Colin. ("Market news: Roger Hilton's child-like drawings, 'stuckist' paintings and Edward Seago" ), ''The Daily Telegraph'', 3 October 2006. Retrieved 29 March 2008.〕 Machine commented on the Stuckists: "some of the paintings are not all that marvellous ... But everyone's painting and getting involved".〔O'Keeffe, Alice. ("How ageing art punks got stuck into Tate's Serota" ), ''The Observer'', 11 December 2005. Retrieved 29 March 2008.〕 Billy Childish owns a Machine painting of a woman slashing her wrists, which he describes as "quite disturbing".〔Kinnes, Sally. ("What's over Your Mantelpiece?" ), ''The Sunday Times'', 3 December 2006. Retrieved 29 March 2008.〕 Machine sang with the "junk" group, The Dirty Numbers, and has published six poetry books.〔 In 2003 Machine married Charlotte Gavin,〔 who has exhibited her work in Stuckist shows. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joe Machine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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