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Billy Childish
Billy Childish
(British, 1959)
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Billy Childish
Russian Shepherd Boy
2011
Lehmann Maupin
Billy Childish
Lt. Sydney A. Cloman, First Infantry, on His Horse on the Wounded Knee Battleground
2010
Lehmann Maupin
Billy Childish
Toni Kurz Ascending
2011
Lehmann Maupin
Billy Childish
Drummer
1968
Brandler Galleries
Billy Childish
Untitled
2010
Skot Foreman Fine Art
Billy Childish
Sibelius Amongst Saplings
2010
The Future Tense
Billy Childish
And his hat rolled clean away
Brandler Galleries
Billy Childish
Figure in Blue
Brandler Galleries
Billy Childish
Dog Rose
Brandler Galleries
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Billy Childish
Fuck me Pete you look bloody awful
oil on canvas
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Billy Childish
Iceland: Man Stood on a Rock
, 2007
oil and charcoal on linen
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Billy Childish
Self Portrate with Bones
, 2010
oil on canvas
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Billy Childish Biography
He left Secondary education at 16 an undiagnosed dyslexic. Refused an interview at the local art school he entered the Naval Dockyard at Chatham as an apprentice stonemason. During the following six months (the artist's only prolonged period of employment), he produced some six hundred drawings in 'the tea huts of hell.' On the basis of this work he was accepted into St Martin's School of Art to study painting. However, his acceptance was short-lived and before completing the course he was expelled. Childish then spent some 12 years 'painting on the dole', developing his own highly personal writing style and producing his art independently.
