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Billy Childish

Vibrant, 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


BIOGRAPHY | COLLECTION

Billy Childish

And His Hat Rolled Clean Away

Hand Tinted Screenprint On Paper

30 x 22 cm

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Billy Childish

House At Grass Valley

Reproduction archival print

24 x 28.5 cm

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Billy Childish

The People Who Stand Still

Reproduction archival print

35 x 23.5 cm

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Billy Childish

Nude

Reproduction archival print

34.5 x 23 cm

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Billy Childish

Man Wrestling With Snakes

Woodcut, Artist Proof

22 x 21 cm

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Billy Childish

Man With Jackdaw

Limited Edition Woodcut Print On Paper

19 x 13 cm

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Billy Childish

Ju Ju Reclining

Reproduction archival print

34.5 x 23 cm

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Billy Childish

Funeral

Limited Edition Woodcut Print On Paper

31 x 20 cm

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Vibrant, 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.

"It's an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw"

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