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Joe Machine (Joseph Stokes) was born on 6 April, 1973 in Chatham, Kent, England, is an English artist, poet and writer. Discover Joe Machine's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 50 years old?

Popular As Joseph Stokes
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Age 50 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 6 April 1973
Birthday 6 April
Birthplace Chatham, Kent, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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1973

Joe Machine (born Joseph Stokes, 6 April 1973) is an English artist, poet and writer.

He is a founding member of the Stuckists art group.

Joseph Machine was born in Chatham, Kent, and comes from a Romany background on the Isle of Sheppey.

1988

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."

1999

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.

2000

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.

2003

In 2003 Machine married Charlotte Gavin, who has exhibited her work in Stuckist shows.

Machine's work is strongly autobiographical and often draws on life experiences of sex and violence.

Machine works with a limited range of mostly five colours (which Machine claims was initially due to poverty), and has cited his grandfather, who used to paint, as a major influence.

Recurrent images are emaciated women, sailors and bloodshed.

He has shown fighting dogs and a sailor having his throat slit.

Other images are Ute Lemper, and Diana Dors with an axe and also with a sub-machine gun.

My Grandfather Will Fight You depicts a gaunt older man with clenched fists and blood-spattered shirt, painted on two wooden boards nailed together.

2004

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".

Reviewing the Walker show, Mark Lawson commented, referring to Machine's painting, Sea Shanty:

2005

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.

2006

Machine was one of the ten leading Stuckist artists to show in the Go West at Spectrum London gallery in October 2006, where six of his paintings sold in advance of the show opening.

Machine commented on the Stuckists: "some of the paintings are not all that marvellous ... But everyone's painting and getting involved".

Billy Childish owns a Machine painting of a woman slashing her wrists, which he describes as "quite disturbing".

Machine sang with the "junk" group, The Dirty Numbers, and has published six poetry books.