John Gathercole

John Gathercole (b. 1968) is a painter, curator and gallerist from London. He achieved his BA at U.E.L. and his MA at London Met. Both in fine art. John has exhibited and sold world wide, including both Tate Modern and Britain. He first found recognition as founder of The Kreative Union of Neo-Aesthetic Terrorists (the Kuntists), an anti art collective. Which has recently progressed into being one half of the Sons of Incoherence art duo. 
He has managed three galleries in East London and Essex, run multiple workshops for the Royal Opera House and Thameside Theatre and is the creator of the Paint Off competitions (which raises money for charities). Currently John curates with Stash Gallery and has returned to his first love of painting the figure.

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The Sons of Incoherence is an alternative art partnership with Johnny from the Kuntists and Sete from art duo Rart and Sete. They have combined to form a nouveau art resistance movement where nothing is sacred and everything is acceptable but indescribable.
Their name comes from The Incoherents (Les Arts Incohérents) A French art movement founded by Jules Lévy in 1882, which anticipated the avant-garde and anti-art pre-dating Duchamp and the Dadaists.

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The Kreative Union of Neo-aesthetic Terrorists catechised what is consider art, exploring whether art is morally emancipating or socially engaging and what was consider art as both, good and bad, high and lowbrow. Through this they challenged the assumptions of established aesthetic criteria by employing subversive working agendas and disputing the role of the artist in society.

They went on to open a shop/gallery, ‘The Emporium’, in East London which allowed the group to pursue a commercial artistic venture, establishing the Kuntists as a brand and enterprise by producing a fanzine, clothing range, art gifts and dolls and also forming a band, releasing a CD ‘Art Noises’ and saw them aligned with the final years of the Y.B.A.s, (Young British Artists).

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