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Billy Childish Abstract 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
Swan and Fish Woodcut Print, Hand-Signed, Edition of 50, 2023
Swan and Fish Woodcut Print, Hand-Signed, Edition of 50, 2023

Swan and Fish Woodcut Print, Hand-Signed, Edition of 50, 2023

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 Abstract Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Medway Swimming Club Archival Print, Contemporary, Signed, Framed
Medway Swimming Club Archival Print, Contemporary, Signed, Framed

Medway Swimming Club Archival Print, Contemporary, Signed, Framed

By Billy Childish

Located in London, GB

Billy Childish Medway Swimming Club, 2008 Archival print on paper 44.5 x 30.5 cm - sheet 67.5 x 49 cm - Framed Edition of 20 hand-signed and numbered published by Aquarium L-13

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Early 2000s Contemporary Billy Childish Abstract Prints

Materials

Archival Pigment

Untitled 16

Untitled 16

By Billy Childish

Located in London, GB

Billy Childish Untitled 16, 2013 Giclee archival print 30.48 x 37.78 cm 12 x 14.875 in Billy Childish’s emotional, introspective portraits and landscapes take inspiration from the a...

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2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Abstract Prints

Materials

Giclée, Archival Pigment

Untitled 10

Untitled 10

By Billy Childish

Located in London, GB

Billy Childish Untitled 10, 2013 Giclee archival print 30.48 x 38.1 cm 12 x 15 in Billy Childish’s emotional, introspective portraits and landscapes take inspiration from the artist...

Category

2010s Contemporary Billy Childish Abstract Prints

Materials

Giclée, Archival Pigment

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