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
Billy Childish - Moose
By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
Moose, 2020
Archival print on heavy matt stock
30.5 x 38 cm
Edition of 200
signed and numbered by the artist
Billy Childish is a prolific British artist, musician, and writer known...
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2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Figurative Prints
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Archival Pigment
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
$438 Sale Price
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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
$438 Sale Price
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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
$438 Sale Price
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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
$438 Sale Price
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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
$612 Sale Price
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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
$408 Sale Price
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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
$346 Sale Price
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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
$438 Sale Price
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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
$438 Sale Price
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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
$306 Sale Price
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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
$357 Sale Price
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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
$306 Sale Price
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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
$408 Sale Price
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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 Figurative Prints
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Paper, 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 Figurative Prints
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