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STUART SUTCLIFFE
STUART FERGUSSON VICTOR SUTCLIFFE
Current Happenings:
EXHIBITIONS
2008-2009 Stuart Sutcliffe Retrospective, Victoria Gallery & Museum, University of Liverpool, Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008, UK Co-Curators and catalogue editors: Matthew Clough and Colin Fallows
2008-2009 Tour of the Hamptons II, Brown Harris Stevens, Southampton New York, Amagansett NY, Sag Harbor NY Curators: Diane Vitale and Pauline Sutcliffe
2007 One Man Show within multiple exhibition event, ‘The 1960s: A Cultural Revolution...Artist to Icon. The Stuart Sutcliffe Paintings’, the Alden B. Dow Museum of Science & Art, Midland Centre for the Arts, USA Curators: Bruce Winslow et al
2007 Launch of the Stuart Sutcliffe Lecture Series - Alden B. Dow Museum of Science & Art. Authors and Presenters: Pauline Sutcliffe and Diane Vitale
2007 Tour of the Hamptons I, Brown Harris Stevens, East Hampton, New York & Bridge Hampton, New York, USA Curators: Diane Vitale and Pauline Sutcliffe
2006-2008 Celebrity Art / Neal Glaser, in partnership with Rock Art Show Release of Sutcliffe Limited Edition print ‘Meet the Beatals’ www.artcelebs.com
2006-2008 Rock Art Show, Scott Segelbaum, USA Tour in 32 states including Martha Clara Vineyards, Bob Kern, Riverhead, New York Includes the limited edition print ‘Meet the Beatals’ within this large group show www.rockartshow.com
2005 Prescott Museum, Multi Media 60’s Celebration, Greater Merseyside, UK
2004 One man show, Supervisions, St. Helens, Lancashire, UK
2002 One man show, Proud Gallery, London, UK
2001 One man show, Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, USA Curators: Terry Stewart, Jim Henky et al
2001 One man show, Westwood Gallery, Manhattan, New York, USA Curators: James Cavello and Margarite Almeida
2000 One man show, Beatles Museum, Liverpool, UK Curators: Shelagh Johnson & Terry Sampson with LJMU Art History Studies
1995-2000 One man shows, Govinda Gallery, Washington DC, USA Curator: Chris Murray
1996 -1999 One man and mixed shows, KDK Gallery, London, UK Curators: Pauline Sutcliffe and Kate Kilroy
1995 One man show, Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1995 One-man show, Liverpool John Moores University, School of Design & Visual Art, Stuart Sutcliffe Fellowship Award - launch Curator: Colin Fallows
1994 One man show, Touring Exhibition, Japan (Dela Corporation Tokyo) Backbeat film distributor - touring major cities throughout Japan
1994 One man show, Liverpool John Moores University, School of Design & Visual Arts and launch of the Stuart Sutcliffe Scholarship Curator: Colin Fallows
1994 One man show, Beatlerama Inc., Toronto, Canada
1994 Stuart Sutcliffe / Astrid Kirchherr Exhibition, Special Photographers Gallery London, UK
1992 25th Anniversary Christmas Exhibition, Bluecoat Gallery Liverpool, UK Curator: Bryan Biggs
1990-1991 One man show, BBK Gallery, Cologne, Germany Curators: Bryan Biggs, Mike Evans, Pauline Sutcliffe and BBK
1990 One man show, Sotheby's, London, UK Co-curators: Pauline Sutcliffe and Mike Evans
1990 One-man show, Barbizon Gallery, Glasgow, UK (co-sponsored by Mayfest). Co-curators: Pauline Sutcliffe and Mike Evans
1990 One man show, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK Curator: Bryan Biggs
1987-1988 The Art of the Beatles, Tour of Japan (Seibu Stores/Toshiba) Curator and catalogue author: Mike Evans
1988 The Art of the Beatles, Cologne, Germany (British Council) Curator and catalogue author: Mike Evans
1984 The Art of the Beatles, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (Merseyside County Council), UK. Curator and catalogue author: Mike Evans
1976 One man show, South London Art Gallery, London, UK
1972 One man show, The Room, Greenwich, London, UK
1967 One man show, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK
1967 Art in a City Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK John Willett Art in a City book launch
1966 One man show, Neptune Gallery, Liverpool, UK
1965 One man show, University of Liverpool Student Union, UK
1964 Major retrospective, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK Curators: Nicholas Horsfield, John Jacob, Hugh Scrutton, John Willett
1959 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (John Moores purchased the Sutcliffe painting enabling Sutcliffe to purchase the bass guitar)
TELEVISION DOCUMENTARIES
2005 BBC Television commissioned documentary, Stuart Sutcliffe - The Lost Beatle, Director Steve Cole, Iambic Productions
1991 Exhibition, Cologne, German TV
1990 Midnight Angel, Granada TV (networked) UK
DVDs
2006 Stuart Sutcliffe - The Lost Beatle, Director: Steve Cole, Iambic Productions. Digital Classics International DVD release of BBC commissioned documentary. Winner of the Creative Excellence Award, US International Film and Video Festival.
2005 Backbeat, Director Iain Softley, Producers Finola Dwyer and Stephen Wooley re-released on DVD, Universal Classics
FILMS
1994 Backbeat, Director Iain Softley, Producers Finola Dwyer and Stephen Wooley. Polygram / Scala / Channel 4
LECTURE SERIES
2007 Stuart Sutcliffe Lecture Series © Stuart Sutcliffe Estate Authors and Presenters: Pauline Sutcliffe and Diane Vitale Multi-media presentation series chronicling the art and artefacts of Stuart Sutcliffe
CD COVERS
1999 Mansun
1995 EP's (Aaron Ave Records)
1994 Backbeat Soundtrack (Virgin Records)
PERFORMANCE CD
1995 The Beatles Anthology
THEATRE
2010 BACKBEAT, an exciting new stage version based on the Universal Pictures film by Iain Softley - world premiers at the Citizens Theatre – Glasgow, 9 February 2010 to 6 March 2010 Executive Producer, Karl Sydow Writer Iain Softley with Stephen Jeffreys Director, Iain Softley Stage & Costume Designer, Christopher Oram
2005 Lennon, the Musical, Broadway, New York
PUBLICATIONS
2009 Stuart Sutcliffe, A Retrospective, Victoria Gallery & Museum, University of Liverpool, Liverpool University Press
Pauline Sutcliffe and Douglas Thompson, Sidgwick & Jackson, an imprint of Pan Macmillan Ltd.
1995 STUART, The Life and Art of Stuart Sutcliffe, Pauline Sutcliffe and Kay Williams Genesis Publications, Limited Edition
Sutcliffe, Pan Books / Sidgwick & Jackson
FASHION – MENSWEAR LINE
2009 FACTOTUM, Japanese menswear design house produces “Stuart themed” line "Story" inspired by the life of Stuart Sutcliffe – the British artist and original Beatles bassist.
STUART FERGUSSON VICTOR SUTCLIFFE
Born 23 June 1940 Edinburgh, Scotland Died 10 April 1962 Hamburg, Germany
CHRONOLOGY
1943 Family moves to Liverpool, England 1946-1950 Park View Primary School, Huyton 1950-1956 Prescott Grammar School 1956 Enters Liverpool Regional College of Art (16 years of age) 1957 Meets fellow art students, John Lennon, Rod Murray and Bill Harry 1958 Passes Intermediate Art and Crafts Certificate examinations 1959 Painting selected for John Moores Exhibition at the prestigious Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool - painting subsequently bought by John Moores John Lennon persuades Stuart to invest proceeds from the sale to purchase a bass guitar and join his rock-n-roll group, then known as the Quarry Men, as bass guitarist 1960 Tours Scotland with the group Stuart and John rename the group the Silver Beatles, as accompanists to Johnny Gentle. Stuart later changes the name to the Beatals and John later changes the spelling 1960 Passes NDD (National Diploma in Design) and graduates from Liverpool College of Art 1960 Travels with the Beatles to Hamburg where they work from August to late November, during which time he becomes engaged to photographer Astrid Kirchherr 1961 During the Beatles second visit to Hamburg, he enrolls at the cities Staetiche Hoehschule fur bildende Kunste (State School of Art) and leaves the Beatles 1961-1962 Studies in Eduardo Paolozzi's Master Class 1962 Dies in Hamburg on 10 April 1962 at 21 years of age.
WHAT SOME HAVE TO SAY…
"I looked up to Stu, I depended on him to tell me the truth. Stu would tell me if something was good, and I'd believe him." John Lennon
"I felt I knew Stuart because hardly a day went by that John did not speak about him." Yoko Ono
“Stuart was the most beautiful, sensitive and gifted boy. I still put a flower beside his photograph at my bedside on his birthday.” Astrid Kirchherr
“Stuart was not the best bass player, but he wasn’t anything like as bad as has been said captured in Beatle mythology.” Pete Best
“Stu was actually a very good rock-and-roll bass player. At the time, he was better than Paul.” Klaus Voormann
"Stu was more than just the bass player - he was like our art director." George Harrison
"He (Stuart) was a major attraction because of the James Dean thing, the dark, moody thing. I think a lot of people liked that." Sir Paul McCartney
"My report is that Sutcliffe is very gifted and very intelligent. In the meantime he has become one of my best students." Professor Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Artist
"He (Stuart) was an outstanding loss to Liverpool and to English painting, and over and above the merit of his pictures he has a special significance as somebody whose burning creativity switched from art into pop music and then back again. He showed the way." John Willett, Art Critic & Historian
“Stuart Sutcliffe emerged as an Abstract Expressionist painter just when Abstract Expressionism was in decline, epitomizing all that is best in it. It was this intensity that Sutcliffe captured in his own relentlessly intense art. They throb with new life and fresh emotion.” Donald Kuspit, Prof. of Art History & Philosophy, Author, Art Critic & Historian
“Most mothers believe their children are the most brilliant and the most beautiful – but it happened to be true about Stuart. When he told us he had joined a band, my heart filled with feelings of awful foreboding… His death left a void in our family that nothing, but nothing, could fill. Our family was never the same.” Martha Sutcliffe, Stuart’s mother
“It was difficult for me to try and persuade him not to join the group because I had been a little foolhardy myself in my youth – but I was concerned that it might take him off focus and seriously impact his true passion – which was his art.” Charles Sutcliffe, Stuart’s father
“He didn’t like it when my sister and I would tease him about liking Elvis – we thought it was so out of character for such a serious painter. He used to reply by saying, ‘one day, you’ll understand.’” Joyce Whitelock Wainwright (nee Sutcliffe), Stuart’s sister
“My sister Joyce and I were never in any doubt that we had the most spectacularly wonderful brother that ever set foot on the planet. When his back was turned we would make forays into his room and passed the notice on his door that said, ‘Private. Keep Out’. We would look in wonderment at the amazing range of stuff that included: a record player and records; balsa wood packages for making aeroplanes; Dubbing for his uniform belt as a cadet at ATC; his bugle hanging from the ceiling like a mobile; the unfinished Crucifixion being painted as a gift for his Vicar, Rev. Ward at St. Gabriel’s; the nursery rhymes in preparation for our mothers classroom; many books open at different chapters all being read and a couple of unfinished essay’s on the ‘meaning of life’… We looked in wonderment at the creative use of his dressing table, which doubled as art easel and storage for poster paints, charcoal, linseed oil and all the usual paraphernalia associated with a painter in the 50’s. I was 12-years of age and my sister Joyce was 14 when Stuart became a student at the Liverpool College of Art (he was just 16) - so its not surprising his private room reflected a middle adolescent boy as well as a precociously talented you man. Had Stuart caught us in our foray into his private sanctuary (which he did once) he would leave us in no doubt that we had breached his privacy and that he was concerned lest we should disturb anything that looked chaotic to us - but had total logic to him. It was about this time that he introduced Rod Murray to our family – he was Stuart’s first best friend, before John. At this time he persuaded our mother that he needed to have his own space and she willingly acquiesced - my sister and I lost our secret treasure troving but not yet our brother – that happened some years later. It has been a joy to work on this wonderful website project. We hope you truly appreciate all the hard work as well as the pleasure it has been to share and preserve Stuart’s legacy.” Pauline Sutcliffe, Stuart’s sister
“Stuart was clearly a budding ‘Renaissance Man’ – showing precocious ability and talent in all the arts. The range of his talents - writer, poet, art historian, art critic, filmmaker, overwhelmed me… It intrigued me that such a refined intellect enjoyed other visual aesthetics like style and fashion, and at such a young age, recognized the importance of popular music in our culture. Stuart saw John as a fellow traveller, also a young man of artistic passion – seeing behind the façade of the tough Teddy Boy. It’s no wonder John looked up to him and why Stuart enjoyed being with him so much. For me to have an entree into Stuart’s world – through his art, artefacts and memorabilia - to have the opportunity to read a novel he was writing about his relationship with John, was a real privilege. Having steered the design and launch of the stuartsutcliffeart.com website, I never fail to be surprised at the amount of traffic and requests we receive daily. Pauline has taken great care to preserve Stuart’s life work - to bring it to public attention both nationally and internationally and ensure it has been exhibited worldwide before making it available to private collectors and museums. I’m delighted that I have the honour to develop future tasteful business opportunities whilst maintaining the integrity of the artists life and work.” Diane Vitale, Director, Stuart Sutcliffe Estate
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