The Neo Naturists is a performance based live art practice started during the early 1980s in London, UK.
They challenged the highly fashionable Blitz Kids of the early 1980s by creating performances which brought smudged body paint, nudity, cooking, fish fingers, pancakes, calor gas, modern hunter gatherer carrier bags, bosoms, patchouli, sweat and messy exuberance into the heart of the self-conscious New Romantic club scene.
Their work brought the aesthetics and vision of William Blake and Samuel Palmer, Cecil Collins and neo-romanticism of the 1940s into direct collision with the slick gesturing of New Image painting and neo-expressionism.
[4][5][6] The Neo Naturists subtextually, used their own female bodies in the context of the, often gay and exquisitely dandyesque, club scene, such as The Blitz, to play with feminist sexuality issues and sexual politics.
They juxtaposed ritual action with ‘common sense’ to create messy exuberant happenings.