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Billy Childish Figurative Prints

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.
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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...
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2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Figurative Prints

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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 Figurative Prints

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Archival Pigment

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 Figurative Prints

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Archival Pigment

Untitled (self portrait) By Billy Childish
By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
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....
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1990s Contemporary Billy Childish Figurative Prints

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Digital, Paper

Untitled (self portrait) By Billy Childish
By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
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...
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1990s Contemporary Billy Childish Figurative Prints

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Digital

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...
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2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Figurative Prints

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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...
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2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Figurative Prints

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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...
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2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Figurative Prints

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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...
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2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Figurative Prints

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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...
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2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Figurative Prints

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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...
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2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Figurative Prints

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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 Figurative Prints

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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...
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2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Figurative Prints

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Archival Pigment

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...
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2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Figurative Prints

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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,...
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2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Figurative Prints

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Archival Pigment

Self Portrait By Billy Childish
By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
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 f...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Billy Childish Figurative Prints

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Digital, Paper

Self Portrait By Billy Childish
By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
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 f...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Billy Childish Figurative Prints

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Digital, Paper

Sailish Fisherman
By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
hand-signed and numbered by the artist. 5 colour hand-pulled lithograph with 11 screen printed colours on Somerset Velvet Warm White 400gsm
 73 x 89 cm 
 Edition of 75 Billy Childis...
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2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Man With Guitar By Billy Childish
By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
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 Figurative Prints

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Paper, Woodcut

Untitled By Billy Childish
By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
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 Figurative Prints

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Paper, Woodcut

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