Billy Childish Art
English, b. 1959
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.to
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Artist: Billy Childish
Tahoma and Two Trees
By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
Tahoma and Two Trees, 2024
Archival print on heavy matt stock paper
30.5 x 30.5 cm
Edition of 200 signed and numbered by the artist
Billy Childish is a prolific British artist, musi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Creation
By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
The Creation, 2024
Archival print on heavy matt stock paper
38.1 x 30.5 cm
Edition of 200 signed and numbered by the artist
Billy Childish is a prolific British artist, musician, an...
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2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Art
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Self Portrait (Red Hand) By Billy Childish
By Billy Childish
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Self Portrait (Red Hand)
By Billy Childish
Billy Childish is a British artist, poet, and musician whose raw, expressive paintings and prolific writings reflect themes of authentic...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Billy Childish Art
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Canvas, Oil, Board
Salish Canoe and Rock
By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
Salish Canoe and Rock, 2023
Archival print on heavy matt stock paper
30.5 x 34.5 cm
Edition of 200 signed and numbered by the artist
Billy Childish is a prolific British artist, mus...
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2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Art
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Archival Pigment
Volcano
By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
Billy Childish
volcano, 2022
22 Colour Screenprint with Lithographic elements on Somerset Velvet warm white 400gsm
Signed and numbered by the artist
76 x 60 cm
Edition of 100
Billy ...
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2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Art
Materials
Screen
Self Portrait (Blue Hand) By Billy Childish
By Billy Childish
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Self Portrait (Blue Hand)
By Billy Childish
Billy Childish is a British artist, poet, and musician whose raw, expressive paintings and prolific writings reflect themes of authenti...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Billy Childish Art
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Canvas, Oil, Board
Billy Childish - Man in a Small Boat
By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
Billy Childish
Man in a Small Boat, 2017
Edition of 100
hand-signed and numbered
31 x 37 cm - sheet size.
published by L4.
Billy Childish is a prolific British artist, musician, an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Art
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Archival Pigment
Stars with Low Sun
By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
Stars with Low Sun, 2024
Archival print on heavy matt stock paper
30.5 x 30.5 cm
Edition of 200 signed and numbered by the artist
Billy Childish is a prolific British artist, musici...
Category
2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cypress Tree
By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
Cypress Tree, 2022
Archival print on heavy matt stock paper
38.3 x 30.5 cm
Edition of 200 signed and numbered by the artist
Billy Childish is a prolific British artist, musician, an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Julie Swimming II
By Billy Childish
Located in Manchester, GB
Billy Childish, Julie Swimming II, 2019
Archival print on heavy matt stock paper
30.5 x 44.5 cm (12 x 17.52 in)
Edition of 200
Hand-signed and numbered by the artist
Billy Child...
Category
2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Salish Fishermen
By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
Billy Childish
Salish Fishermen
44 x 30.5 cm, edition of 200, 2022
hand-signed and numbered by the artist
Billy Childish is a prolific British artist, musician, and writer known for...
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2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Art
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Archival Pigment
Billy Childish - Wading Out
By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
Wading Out, 2019
Archival print on heavy matt stock
44.5 x 30.5 cm
Edition 190 of 200
signed and numbered by the artist
From Sold Out edition
Billy Childish is a prolific British ar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Swimmer
By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
Swimmer, 2019
Archival print on heavy matt stock
30.5 x 38.3 cm
Edition of 200
signed and numbered by the artist
Billy Childish is a prolific British artist, musician, and writer k...
Category
2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cliff with star
By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
Cliff with star, 2023
Archival print on heavy matt stock paper
30.5 x 30.5 cm
Edition of 200 signed and numbered by the artist
Billy Childish is a prolific British artist, musician,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Man in the Mouth of the Cave
By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
Man in the Mouth of the Cave, 2019
Archival print on heavy matt stock
30.5 x 30.5 cm
Edition of 200 signed and numbered by the artist
Billy Childish is a prolific British artist, mu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Swan and Fish
By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
Billy Childish,
Swan and Fish, 2023
edition of 50,
26 x 21.5 cm
hand-signed and numbered by the artist.
Billy Childish is a prolific British artist, musician, and writer known for...
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2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Art
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Woodcut
Men Hoisting Sails
By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
Billy Childish
Men Hoisting Sails, 2021
30.5 x 44 cm
edition of 200
hand-signed and numbered by the artist
Billy Childish is a prolific British artist, musician, and writer known fo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Night Forest
By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
Night Forest, 2019
Archival print on heavy matt stock
30.5 x 44.5 cm
Edition of 200 signed and numbered by the artist
Billy Childish is a prolific British artist, musician, and writ...
Category
2010s Billy Childish Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Julie Swimming II
By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
Julie Swimming II
Archival print on heavy matt stock
30.5 x 44.5 cm
Edition of 200 signed and numbered by the artist
Billy Childish is a prolific British artist, musician, and write...
Category
2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Julie Swimming I
By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
Julie Swimming I
Archival print on heavy matt stock
36.4 x 30.5 cm
Edition of 200 signed and numbered by the artist
Billy Childish is a prolific British artist, musician, and writer...
Category
2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Art
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Archival Pigment
Man With Jackdaw By Billy Childish
By Billy Childish
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Man With Jackdaw
By Billy Childish
Billy Childish is a British artist, musician, and poet known for his prolific work across various mediums, including painting, punk rock music, a...
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2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Art
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Paper, Woodcut
Man With Guitar By Billy Childish
By Billy Childish
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Man With Guitar
By Billy Childish
Billy Childish is a British artist, musician, poet, and writer known for his raw, uncompromising creativity across various mediums, emerging from...
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2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Art
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Paper, Woodcut
Untitled (Sailing Away) By Billy Childish
By Billy Childish
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Untitled (Sailing Away)
By Billy Childish
Billy Childish is a British artist, musician, and writer known for his prolific output across painting, poetry, and punk music. His raw, e...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Billy Childish Art
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Vipers Tongue By Billy Childish
By Billy Childish
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Vipers Tongue
By Billy Childish
Billy Childish is a British artist, musician, and poet known for his prolific work across various mediums, including painting, punk rock music, and...
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2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Art
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Woodcut
Untitled By Billy Childish
By Billy Childish
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Untitled
By Billy Childish
Billy Childish is a British artist, musician, and writer known for his prolific output across painting, poetry, and punk music. His raw, expressionist wo...
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2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Art
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Paper, Woodcut
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