Stewart Home (born 1962) is an artist, film maker, writer, subcultural pamphleteer, underground art historian, and activist. His mother, Julia Callan-Thompson, was a model and hostess who was associated with the radical arts scene in Notting Hill Gate. She knew such people as the writer and Situationist Alexander Trocchi. Stewart was put up for adoption soon after his birth.
Home is best known in Anglo-American mainstream culture for his neo-conceptual art work and more recent novels such as the non-narrative "69 Things To Do With A Dead Princess" (2002) and his re-imagining of the 1960s in "Tainted Love" (2005); while in subcultural circles and territories such as Germany and Finland he is better known for his earlier parodistic pulp fictions Pure Mania, Red London, No Pity, Cunt, and Defiant Pose that pastiche the work of 1970s British skinhead pulp novel writer Richard Allen and combine it with pornography, political agit-prop, and historical references to punk rock and avant-garde art. In the 1980s and 1990s, he exhibited widely and also wrote a large number of non-fiction pamphlets, magazines, and books. They chiefly reflected the politics of the radical left, punk culture, the occult, the history and influence of the Situationists - of whom he is a severe critic - and other radical left-wing 20th century anti-art avant-garde movements. In Home's earlier work the focal point of these reflections was often Neoism, a subcultural network of which he had been a member, and from which he derived various splinter projects. The constant characteristics of his activism in the 1980s and 1990s were:
- The use of group identities (such as Luther Blissett) and collective monikers (e.g. "Karen Eliot").
- Overt and up-front employment of plagiarism.
- Occasionally, pranks and publicity stunts.