Billy Childish

thumb|Billy Childish Billy Childish (born 1 December 1959) is a musician, artist and poet. He is a co-founder of the Stuckists art group, which he has since left. Sourced Artists who don't paint aren't artists. Milner, Frank (ed): The Stuckists Punk Victorian [National Museums Liverpool, 2005], p. 134 From The Stuckist Manifesto, (1999) co-written with Charles Thomson It has become an ongoing national joke. From The Turner Prize manifesto (2000), co-written with Charles Thomson On the Turner Prize. Mostly quoted as "an ongoing national joke" or just a "national joke." Before 1999, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas offered to get me exhibitions, but joining the Stuckists put a kaibosh on all that — because I wasn't prepared to be controlled. I agreed to co-found the Stuckists to be allowed to say what I wanted, and I left the Stuckists because I didn't really want to be in them in the first place. Milner, Frank (ed): The Stuckists Punk Victorian, p. 21. National Museums Liverpool, 2005. I like being on the margins. You work better there. Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", The Times, 2006-12-02 I am angry with him but I have compassion for him. The reason I can have a relationship with him is that I don’t see him as my father but as an individual. I’m glad I didn’t murder him that day. I couldn’t have lived with myself if I had. Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", The Times, 2006-12-02 On his father and a fight they had when Childish was 20 years old. I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh. Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", The Times, 2006-12-02 When I was better known than her, she put my name in that tent. I was asked to do Celebrity Big Brother, but why should I? We live in an age where fame is not related to what you do. Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", The Times, 2006-12-02 Childish's name is the most prominent in Tracey Emin's Everyone I have Ever Slept With 1963–1995, appliquéd names in a tent (destroyed in the Momart warehouse fire). What, like Harpic? Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", The Times, 2006-12-02 Childish's response on hearing that Tracey Emin had said she wanted to be household name (Harpic is a well known lavatory cleaner). Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don’t like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen. Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", The Times, 2006-12-02 On a party in the mid-1990s. About Billy Childish thumb|Mark D. Billy Childish: Truth, Lies and Audiotape Your paintings are stuck, you are stuck! Stuck! Stuck! Stuck! Milner, Frank (ed), The Stuckists Punk Victorian,, p. 134. National Museums Liverpool, 2004 (the Stuckists manifesto 1999). Said to him by Tracey Emin, giving Charles Thomson the idea for the name Stuckism. a seething, dyslexic, better-looking British Bukowski Miranda Sawyer, The Observer Britain's greatest cultural asset The Guardian External links Category:1959 births Category:Living people Category:Painters from England Category:Novelists from England Category:Punk rock singers Category:Guitarists from England Category:Poets from England