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Untitled (self portrait)
By Billy Childish
Billy Childish is a British artist, musician, and writer known for his raw, energetic, and often provocative approach to art and culture. Emerging from the punk rock scene in the late 1970s, Childish became widely recognized for his visceral paintings, which often incorporate a sense of roughness and spontaneity, reflecting the influence of both traditional art techniques and the spirit of rebellion in underground music. His work spans across multiple disciplines, including painting, poetry, and music, with his artwork often featuring themes of masculinity, romance, and existential struggle. Childish’s art is deeply personal, yet his willingness to embrace outsider status has made him a cult figure in the contemporary art world.
1994
Oil on board
4 3/10 × 2 4/5 in 11 × 7 cm
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- Creator:Billy Childish (1959, English)
- Creation Year:1994
- Dimensions:Height: 4.34 in (11 cm)Width: 2.76 in (7 cm)
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- Gallery Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1608216101282
Billy Childish
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. Childish's defiance of authority led to his eventual expulsion from art school in 1981. Since then, Childish has gained something of a cult status worldwide, writing and publishing several novels and more than 40 volumes of confessional poetry, recording more than 150 LPs, and painting several hundred works. Through all of these disciplines, Childish addresses social, political, and personal issues such as war, protest, his turbulent childhood, and his struggles with addiction. While his confessional poetry and music explore these issues with startling honesty, Childish’s paintings are more subtle. His subjects are often drawn from his environment or are people he knows or admires: birch forests, self-portraits, a lone figure in a pastoral English landscape, and his wife as a reclining female nude. Childish works quickly and intuitively, making spare marks on raw canvas that leave much of it visible. He identifies with artists who worked outside a group or movement, intrigued by their outsider roles in society, such as Vincent van Gogh, Kurt Schwitters, and Edvard Munch. Labeling himself a “radical traditionalist,” Childish has a reverence for traditional oil painting yet has resolutely resisted any connection with a particular group or artistic movement.
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