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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. He has led and played in bands including the Thee Milkshakes, Thee Headcoats, and the Musicians of the British Empire, primarily working in the genres of garage rock, punk and surf and releasing more than 100 albums.
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, Thee Headcoats, and the Musicians of the British Empire, primarily working in the genres of garage rock, punk and surf.
Billy Childish is a British artist, writer, and musician. He is known for his Expressionist paintings which resemble the work of both Edvard Munch and Peter Doig.Childish co-founded the Stuckism art movement along with Charles Thomson in 1999, which promoted the use of Modernist pictorial ideals and personal expression over Postmodernist cynicism. Although Childish avoided the pitfalls of conceptualism, his return to figuration and expressive painting is reminiscent of artists who criticize ...
Oct 5, 2020 · Childish will produce work based on his new book, Billy Childish, Photography 1974-2020, a startling collection of black-and-white images from his private collection, assembled in “roughly ...
Jan 24, 2020 · BILLY CHILDISH & HOLLY GOLIGHTLY IN BLOOD WABANA ORE, 1999 Channelling the drones of John Lee Hooker and Bo Diddley, this collaboration is an overlooked one-chord classic .
BILLY CHILDISH: edge of the forest Installation view, Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong March 27 – May 3, 2014 Photo by Kitmin Lee. New York. 501 West 24th Street New York, NY 10011 Telephone +1 212 255 2923 newyork@lehmannmaupin.com. Seoul. 213 Itaewon-ro, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Korea 04349 Telephone +82 2 725 0094 seoul@lehmannmaupin.com . London. 1 Cromwell Place South Kensington, SW7 2JE London
Dec 19, 2020 · Three of the albums have been released in recent weeks, under the latest of Childish’s rogue’s gallery of aliases: The William Loveday Intention (his real name is Steven Hamper). They follow a ...
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. Initially denied an interview to the local art school, he produced hundreds of drawings that gained him entry to London’s Saint Martin's School of Art.
Nov 2, 2010 · Interview: Billy Childish on being Childish. The English artist, punk rocker and prolific novelist explains that "any decent artist either lives outside England or is a weirdo". Photo by Sam Williams. With his army of pseudonyms Billy Childish trampled contemporary art stereotypes, and they melted – slowly, but obediently – underfoot. His paintings resemble works by the artists he loved and learned from – Van Gogh, Bacon, Munch.
Billy Childish 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, Thee Headcoats, and the Musicians of the British Empire, primarily working in the genres of garage rock, punk and surf and releasing more than 100 albums.
Sep 14, 2015 · Billy Childish’s sincere, deeply unselfconscious paintings. 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. If you’re coming from his […]
Sep 25, 2015 · The artist Billy Childish. Photo credit: Brian Stevens. All images courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong. 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 “radical ...
Jun 16, 2020 · Billy Childish, the soft ashes of berlin snowing on hans fallada's nose, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE(solo exhibition) Billy Childish, i am their damaged megaphone, neugerriemschneider, DE, Art | Basel 41, Basel, CH(solo exhibition) Bomb grammar/writings, editions, ideas, Maison de la Poesie, Basel(solo exhibition) Billy Childish: Unknowable but Certain, ICA London, UK(solo exhibition)
Jun 21, 2011 · Praised by Peter Doig and 'copied' by Tracey Emin, Britain's biggest art enigma Billy Childish talks about his art, punk music and the joys of amateurism.Mor...
Billy Childish Biography. After leaving secondary school at age 16, Billy Childish worked at the Naval Dockyard in Chatham as an apprentice stonemason. Initially denied an interview to the local art school, he produced hundreds of drawings that gained him entry to St. Martin's School of Art. Childish's defiance to authority led to his eventual expulsion from art school in 1981. He then embarked on an artistic, odyssey exploring a broad range of worldly themes including war, history, social ...
Feb 16, 2010 · Billy Childish: That would be the nice answer but the problem is that it always goes in spirals and sometimes it can still feel as difficult as it always did. I presume that life on Earth is a spiritual journey, and I am just trying to engage in it in an open and real way. It is a journey that’s expansive, like an island that is getting bigger – you still have all the rotten shit in one corner but there is a new headland in view that is a bit cleaner with a bit more fresh air on it.
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 … Read more
Billy Childish (b. 1959, Chatham, Kent, United Kingdom; lives and works in Whitstable, Kent) attended Medway College of Design, Kent in 1977 and Saint Martin’s School of Art, London in 1978. Solo exhibitions of his work have been organized at Rochester Art Gallery, Kent, United Kingdom (2016); Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, Frankfurt, Germany (2016); White Columns, New York (2010); and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, United Kingdom (2010). ...
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, Thee Headcoats, and the Musicians of the British Empire, primarily working in the genres of garage rock, punk and surf and releasing more than 100 albums.
Billy Childish 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. Initially denied an interview to the local art school, he produced hundreds of drawings that gained him entry to London’s Saint Martin's School of Art. Childish's defiance of authority led to his eventual expulsion from art school in 1981.
Billy Childish was born in 1959 in Chatham, Kent; Childish left secondary education at 16, an undiagnosed dyslexic. Being denied entry to his local art-school, he began work as an apprentice stonemason at Chatham Naval Dockyard. During his 6 months on the job (the only employment he has experienced in his 54 years) he produced 600 drawings in the “tea huts of hell”. This portfolio eventually earned him a place at St Martin’s School of Art studying painting.
In Groups: Billy Childish & Sexton Ming, Billy Childish And The Blackhands, CTMF, Delmonas, H2F, Silent Revolt, The Buff Medways, The Chatham Singers, The Chatham Super 8 Cinema, The Dear Watsons, The Guy Hamper Trio, The Pop Rivets, The Sons Of The Empire, The Spartan Dreggs, The Stuckists, The Vermin Poets, The William Loveday Intention, Thee ...
“Billy Childish is one of the few secondary school uneducated, dyslexic, sexual abused, ex-dockyard worker, son of a drug smuggler, expelled from an elite art school, poet, novelist, musician, song writer and internationally acclaimed artist on the scene.” Jeff Feuerzeig. Since 1977 Billy Chyldish has released over 150 independent LP’s, published 5 novels and over 45 collections of poetry, but his main job is painting.
