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Billy Childish

Melancholic vignettes of a self proclaimed outsider

Billy Childish (born Steven John Hamper, 1 December 1959 in Chatham, Kent) is an English painter, punk rock icon and poet. At 16 he left school to become a dockyard stonemason apprentice, was expelled from St. Martins School of art for outspoken political views and lived on the dole for 15 years. For 35 years he has been prolific in creating music, writing and visual art.

Swirling patterns and forms are effortlessly produced from thick and lavish paint on canvas. Childish's artwork is almost sculptural in its attempts to create form and substance. His obsession with colour stands in contrast to the melancholic and stoic subjects he paints. Drawing on influences from French and Dutch Impressionists and Expressionist painters like Van Gogh and Edvard Munch, his honest and unpretentious approach to beauty and story telling underlies all of his work.

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Billy Childish


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Billy Childish

Mermaid II

Limited Edition Woodcut Print On Paper

21.5 x 21 cm

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Billy Childish

Birch Wood

Reproduction archival print

23 x 34.5 cm

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Billy Childish

And His Hat Rolled Clean Away

Hand Tinted Screenprint On Paper

30 x 22 cm

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Billy Childish

Birchwood In Winter

Reproduction archival print

23 x 34.5 cm

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Billy Childish

Chariot

Reproduction archival print

23 x 34 cm

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Billy Childish

Fetching The Body Of Toni Kurz

Reproduction archival print

23 x 30 cm

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Billy Childish

In A Willow Tree Kroonstad

Reproduction archival print

23 x 30 cm

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Billy Childish

Kits Coty

Reproduction archival print

23 x 30 cm

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Billy Childish

Man In Small Boat

Reproduction archival print

23 x 38 cm

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Billy Childish

Man On Icy Sea

Reproduction archival print

26 x 38 cm

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Billy Childish

Moose

Reproduction archival print

30.5 x 23 cm

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Billy Childish

Self Portrait With Daughter

Limited Edition Print On Paper

41 x 24.5 cm

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Melancholic vignettes of a self proclaimed outsider

Billy Childish (born Steven John Hamper, 1 December 1959 in Chatham, Kent) is an English painter, punk rock icon and poet. At 16 he left school to become a dockyard stonemason apprentice, was expelled from St. Martins School of art for outspoken political views and lived on the dole for 15 years. For 35 years he has been prolific in creating music, writing and visual art.

Swirling patterns and forms are effortlessly produced from thick and lavish paint on canvas. Childish's artwork is almost sculptural in its attempts to create form and substance. His obsession with colour stands in contrast to the melancholic and stoic subjects he paints. Drawing on influences from French and Dutch Impressionists and Expressionist painters like Van Gogh and Edvard Munch, his honest and unpretentious approach to beauty and story telling underlies all of his work.

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