Billy Childish
Biography:
A cult figure in America, Europe and
Japan, Billy Childish is by far the most prolific painter, poet, and
song-writer of his generation. In a twenty year period he has published over 40
collections of his poetry, recorded over 100 full-length independent LP’s and
produced over 2000 paintings.
Born in 1959 in Chatham, Kent. Billy
Childish left Secondary education at 16 an undiagnosed dyslexic. Refused an
interview at the local art school he entered the Naval Dockyard at Chatham as
an apprentice stonemason. During the following six months (the artist’s only
prolonged period of employment), he produced some six hundred drawings in ‘the
tea huts of hell. On the basis of this work he was accepted into St Martin’s
School of Art to study painting. However, his acceptance was short-lived and
before completing the course he was expelled for his outspokenness and
unorthodox working methods. With no qualifications and no job prospects
Childish then spent some 12 years ‘painting on the dole’, developing his own
highly personal writing style and producing his art independently.
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