Joe Machine (British, b. 1973) is a world- renowned artist, illustrator and writer described by the legendary art critic Edward Lucie- Smith as being the successor to Francis Bacon and William Blake. Having risen from a troubled upbringing and involvement in crime, he has become one of the most important British artists.
He is a founder member of the Stuckist art movement and painter in residence for the Prometheus Project in Trieste, Italy. He has exhibited at many prestigious venues in London and the UK and internationally in the U.S.A, France, Italy and the Czech Republic. He is known for his instantly recognisable style of painting which incorporates archetypal imagery and esoteric symbolism within his religious and mythological works.
He has collaborated with the mythographer and editor of The London Magazine Dr. Steven O’Brien, on several visual exhibitions and provided illustrations for Dr. O’Brien’s book ‘Britannic Myths’.
He has also illustrated two volumes of poetry for Edward Lucie-Smith, ‘Making For The Exit’ and ‘Surviving’ as well as ‘The Beowulf Oracle’ for John Matthews.
upcoming exhibitions
Future exhibitions will be listed here.
solo exhibitions
2024 Nature, Plaza Premium Lounge, London Gatwick
2023 Mayday, Picturehouse Central, London
2021 The Abrahamic Family: Joe Machine, Masterpiece Fine Art, Dubai
2020 Unseen Spring, Virtual Show, London Magazine, London
2017 From the Gutter to the Stars, Černá Labuť Gallery, Prague
2017 Britannic Myths, Shapiro Gallery, Mayfair, London
2017 Britannic Myths, CNB Gallery, Hix Art, The Tramshed Project, London
2016 Britannic Myths, CNB Gallery, London
2016 The Life of St Stephen, St Stephen Walbrook, London
2015 The Krays’ Bedtime Stories, Lollipop Gallery, London
2015 The Sailor Paintings of Joe Machine, Lux Art Gallery, Trieste
2015 Prometheus, Woland Art Space, Trieste
2014 The Paintings of Joe Machine, Home House Private Members Club, London
2014 Russian Fairytales, Russian Cultural Centre, London
2014 Alice in Wonderland/Alice in The Art World, Clapham Omnibus, London
2013 Sex, Death and Men of the Sea, The Old Laundry Gallery, Margate
2013 Machine Evolution, Cock ‘n’ Bull Gallery, London
2011 The Unseen Animal, Amuti 23 Gallery, Dalston
group exhibitions
2017 The Stuckists at Cass Art, Islington, Cass Art, London
2016 The Stuckists Art Show and Summer Sale, View Two Gallery, Liverpool
2015 Stuckism: Remodernising the Mainstream, Studio 3 Gallery, University of Kent
2015 The Other Summer Exhibition, Lollipop Gallery, London
2012 Stuckists: Elizabethan Avant-Garde, Bermondsey Project, London
2011 Polemically Small, Charlie Smith Gallery, London
2011 Polemically Small, Torrance Art Museum, California, USA
2011 3 Worlds in 1, Klaipeda Culture Communication Centre, Lithuania
2011 The Enemies of Art, Lauderdale House, London
2010 Stuckist Clowns Doing Their Dirty Work, Artspace Galleries, London
2009 The Stuckists Christmas Sale, Matisonn Burgin Gallery, London
2008 An Antidote to the Ghastly Turner Prize, View Two Gallery, Liverpool
2007 I Won’t Have Sex with You as Long as We’re Married, A Gallery, London
2006 The Triumph Of Stuckism, Hope Street Gallery, Liverpool John Moores
2006 Go West, Spectrum Gallery, London
2004 ‘Stigmata’ or ‘Censorious’, Rivington Gallery, London
2004 The Stuckist Punk Victorian, Walker & Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool
2003 Stuckist Classics 1, 2 & 3, Stuckism International Gallery, London
2002 A Dead Shark Isn’t Art, Stuckism International Gallery, London
2002 The First Stuckist International, Stuckism International Gallery, London
2001 Vote Stuckist, The Fridge Gallery, London
2001 The Stuckists: The First Remodernist Art Group, Artbank Gallery, London
2000 The Real Turner Prize Show 2000, Pure Gallery, London
2000 Stuck!, Metropole Arts Centre, Folkestone
2000 Die Stuckisten, Leipziger Messe fur Junge Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
2000 The Stuckists: New Paintings, The Arts Club, London
2000 The Resignation of Sir Nicholas Serota, Gallery 108, London
2000 First Art Show Of The New Millennium, Salon Des Arts, London
1999 Stuck! Stuck! Stuck!, Gallery 108, London