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.to
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Artist: Billy Childish
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
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
Materials
Digital, Paper
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
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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
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
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 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
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
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 188 of 200
signed and numbered by the artist
Billy Childish is a prolific British artist, musician, and w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Toni Kurz Descending
By Billy Childish
Located in New York, NY
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...
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2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Figurative Prints
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Etching
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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Billy Childish Figurative Prints
Materials
Digital, Paper
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 Figurative Prints
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 Figurative Prints
Materials
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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Billy Childish Figurative Prints
Materials
Digital, Paper
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 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
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
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
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