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Billy Childish (born Steven John Hamper; 1 December 1959) is an English painter, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer and guitarist. Since the late 1970s, Childish has been prolific in creating music, writing and visual art.
View Billy Childish’s 176 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available paintings, prints and multiples, and works on paper for sale and learn about the artist.
Billy Childish’s emotional, introspective portraits and landscapes take inspiration from the artist’s own struggles and his interest in the mysteries of nature. Childish—whose creative output has also spanned music, poetry, and novels—seems to …
Jan 24, 2020 · From Troggs-inspired rock’n’roll and Great War song cycles to the very fine new CTMF record, Last Punk Standing, these selections are raw, vital and in line with his favoured musical ...
Sep 25, 2015 · In his show of new work at Lehmann Maupin , the British art-provocateur Billy Childish seems to be looking back to a bygone era; his paintings of birch trees, naked women, flowers in vases, and his own visage immediately evoke the swirling compositions of v an Gogh , a comparison that pleases Childish. Indeed, the career of this self-declared ...
Oct 5, 2020 · Billy Childish is striding around his studio, brandishing a stick of charcoal and talking about his reputation. He keeps turning towards a huge blank canvas, feathering a few lines,...
Mar 31, 2015 · Once inaccurately described by The Guardian as the definitive ‘gentleman monomaniac’ of the British counterculture, genius savant Billy Childish is in fact distinguished by his omnivorous, multifaceted approach to his work.
Billy Childish (b. 1959, Chatham, Kent, United Kingdom; lives and works in Whitstable, Kent) is known for his introspective, autobiographical, and deeply emotional paintings, writing, and music. After leaving secondary school at age 16, Childish worked at the Naval Dockyard in Chatham as an apprentice stonemason.
Sep 14, 2015 · Punk rock icon, poet, novelist, luftmensch, wearer of extraordinary hats and Edwardian mustaches—Billy Childish is a multiplicity of things, a British renaissance man. But first and foremost he is a marvelous painter, as can be seen at the Lehmann Maupin Gallery through October 31.
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