Stuart Brisley
Born in 1933 in the charming Surrey village of Haslemere, Stuart Brisley made his name in the 1960s and '70s as a radical performance artist.
Shit - among other forms of human waste - is clearly a major preoccupation for Brisley: his work often involves the use of faeces and he has recently set up the UK Museum of Ordure, a site dedicated to the exploration of dung, dirt, excrement and the like.
In 1968 Brisley co-organised the Hornsey Sit-In, a protest against established art school teaching methods and his subsequent appointment as a professor at the Slade is still unique in that he was appointed by the students alone.
Click here to read Tom's review of a lecture at the ICA, during which Russian performance artist Alexander Brener put a poo in Stuart Brisley's glass of water.
Shit - among other forms of human waste - is clearly a major preoccupation for Brisley: his work often involves the use of faeces and he has recently set up the UK Museum of Ordure, a site dedicated to the exploration of dung, dirt, excrement and the like.
In 1968 Brisley co-organised the Hornsey Sit-In, a protest against established art school teaching methods and his subsequent appointment as a professor at the Slade is still unique in that he was appointed by the students alone.
Click here to read Tom's review of a lecture at the ICA, during which Russian performance artist Alexander Brener put a poo in Stuart Brisley's glass of water.
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