Stuart Sutcliffe Estate: About Stuart

STUART SUTCLIFFE
BORN 23RD JUNE 1940 EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
DIED 10TH OF APRIL 1962 HAMBURG, GERMANY

CHRONOLOGY

1943 - Family moves to Liverpool, England
1946-1950 - Park View Primary School, Huyton
1950-1956 - Prescot Grammar School
1956 - Enters Liverpool Regional College of Art (16 years of age)
1957 - Meets fellow art student, John Lennon
1959 - Painting selected for John Moores Exhibition at the prestigious Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool - painting subsequently bought by John Moores
- Joins John Lennon's Rock-n-Roll group, then known as Johnney and the Moon Dogs, as bass guitarist
1960 - Tours Scotland with the group, renamed the Silver Beatles, as accompanists to Johnny Gentle
- Leaves Liverpool Regional College of Art
- 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 the 10th day of April, 1962 at 21 years of age

EXHIBITIONS

1959 - John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery
1964 - Major retrospective, Walker Art Gallery
1965-1967 - One-man show, Liverpool University
- One-man show, Neptune Gallery, Liverpool
- One-man show, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
1967 - Art in a City Exhibition, ICA London
1972 - One-man show, The Room, Greenwich
1976 - One-man show, South London Art Gallery
1984 - The Art of the Beatles, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (Merseyside County Council)
1987-1988 - The Art of the Beatles, Tour of Japan (Seibu Stores/Toshiba)
1988 - The Art of the Beatles, Cologne (British Council)
1990 - One-man show, Sotheby's, London
- One-man show, Barbizon Gallery, Glasgow (Mayfest)
- One-man show, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
1990-1991 - One-man show, BBK Gallery, Cologne
1992 - Mixed Exhibition, 25th Anniversary Christmas Exhibition, Bluecoat Gallery Liverpool
1994 - One-man show, Touring Exhibition, Japan (Dela Corporation)
- One-man show, Liverpool John Moores University, School of Design and Visual Arts
- One-man show, Toronto, Canada (Beatlerama Inc)
- Astrid Kirchherr - Stuart Sutcliffe Exhibition, Special Photographers Gallery, London
1995 - One-man show, Kamen Gallery, Toronto
- One-man show, Liverpool John Moores University, Stuart Sutcliffe Fellowship Award
- One-man show, Govinda Gallery, Washington DC
1995 - 2000 - One-man show, Liverpool, John Moores University
- One-man show, KDK Gallery, London
- One-man show, Liverpool Beatle Museum
2001 - One-man show, Rock-N- Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, USA
- One-man show, Westwood Gallery, Manhattan, New York
2002 - One-man show, Proud Gallery, London

TELEVISION DOCUMENTARIES

1990 - Midnight Angel, Granada TV (networked) U.K.
1991 - Exhibition, Cologne, German TV
2005 - BBC Television, Stuart, His life and Art, U.K. (soon to be released in USA)

FILMS

1994 - Backbeat, Director Iain Softley, Producers Finola Dwyer and Stephen Wooley (Polygram / Scala / Channel 4)

DVDs

2005 - Backbeat, Director Iain Softley, Producers Finola Dwyer and Stephen Wooley (re-released on DVD)

CD COVERS

1994 - Backbeat Soundtrack (Virgin Records)
1995 - E.P.'s(Aaron Ave Records)
1999 - Mansun

PERFORMANCE CD

1995 - The Beatles Anthology

THEATRE

2004"Backbeat", Abbey Road Studios, London, UK
2005"Lennon, The Musical", Broadway, New York

PUBLICATIONS

1994 - "Backbeat, Stuart Sutcliffe, The Lost Beatle" - Alan Clayson and Pauline Sutcliffe (Pan Books / Sidgwick & Jackson)
1995 - "Stuart, The Life and Art of Stuart Sutcliffe" - Pauline Sutcliffe and Kay Williams (Genesis Fine Limited Edition)
2001 - "The Beatles Shadow, STUART SUTCLIFFE, & his lonely hearts club" Pauline Sutcliffe and Douglas Thompson (Sidgwick & Jackson, an imprint of Pan Macmillan Ltd.)
2006 - Future Publication, "The Ballad of John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe" (working title)

MAJOR PURCHASES

2004 - Present - NATIONAL MUSEUMS & GALLERIES OF LIVERPOOL
- Purchase of Stuart Sutcliffe Art and Artifacts for ongoing exhibition at the Museum of Liverpool Life

What some have to say about Stuart.

"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

"He (Stuart) was a major attraction because of the James Dean thing, the dark, moody thing. I think a lot of people liked that."
- Paul McCartney

"Stu was more than just the bass player - he was like our art director."
- George Harrison

"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
Professor of Art History & Philosophy,
Author, Art Critic and Historian