Lives in Arsenal, London, with husband Sexton Ming.
Started the Stuckist web site.
24.5.66 Born, Ohio, USA
1982-84 Fort Hayes Career Center – commercial art course
1984-86 Columbus College of Art & Design. Left because of
“all the conceptual crap”
1986-87 Took lots of LSD
1988-89 Ohio State University, BA (Fine Arts). Allowed to paint.
Visual Arts Award
1990-91 Go-go dancer/stripper. Travel to India and Africa
1991-92 Islington: waitress, Mexican Restaurant and Islamic lifestyle in
Algerian household
1993 Number one in Indie charts as member of Voodoo Queens pop band
1996 Rode bicycle to Lithuania. Met Sexton Ming in London when she
borrowed his lipstick
1997- Website designer. Started painting intensely again
1999 Founder member of the Stuckists
2001 Married fellow Stuckist Sexton Ming on Dorset cliff top in drag
2002-3 Commissions for Von Stockhausen family. Went to Cuba
Plays in The Deptford Beach Babes. Amsterdam Gay News
‘Painter of the Year’. Used to frequent fetish clubs and spank men whom
she describes as “Tory politicians”.
Had lunch with Quentin Crisp in New York: he thought she was weird.
Website: www.ellaguru.org.uk
