# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-thomson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:44:55.333Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-thomson"
name: "Charles Thomson"
slug: "charles-thomson"
description: "Charles Thomson is an English artist, poet and photographer. In the early 1980s he was a member of The Medway Poets. In 1999 he named and co-founded the Stuckists art movement with Billy Childish. He has curated Stuckist shows, organised demonstrations against the Turner Prize, run an art gallery, stood for parliament and reported Charles Saatchi to the OFT. He is frequently quoted in the media as an opponent of conceptual art. He was briefly married to artist Stella Vine."
tagline: "British artist (born 1953)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Photograph_of_Charles_Thomson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1953-02-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.88
  momentum:             15.11237288135593
  historical:           7.884558666666666
  currentAttention:     8.76
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Charles Thomson (artist)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump