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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.
Painting. Works. View Complete Works. Born in 1959 in Chatham, Kent, England, Steven John Hamper, known as Billy Childish, is a multi-talented artist, who advocates amateurism, and free, emotional expression through art. A co-founder of the Stuckism art movement in 1999, Childish promotes figurative painting as opposed to conceptual art, and a ...
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 ...
Billy Childish was born in 1959, a remarkable figure of British Stuckism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- British
- December 1, 1959
- Chatham, Kent, United Kingdom
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. He has led and played in bands including the Pop Rivets, Thee Milkshakes,...
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Born Steven John Hamper on December 1, 1959 in Chatham, United Kingdom, he went on to attend the St. Martin’s School of Art in London, though he never graduated due to his unruly behavior. His work is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Childish lives and works in Kent, UK.
Birthday December 1, 1959. Birth Sign Sagittarius. Birthplace England. Age 64 years old. About. An English author, artist and musician, he is known for such sexually explicit works as My Fault (novel) and Paedophile (song). He was a founder of the artistic movement known as Stuckism. Before Fame.
