Billy Childish ist ein britischer Sänger und Produzent von Independent-Rockmusik. Neben seinen musikalischen Projekten betätigt er sich auch als Schriftsteller und Maler. Childish war mehrere Jahre lang alkoholabhängig. Er praktiziert Hatha Yoga und lebt in Chatham. Wikipedia
“It has become an ongoing national joke.”
From The Turner Prize manifesto (2000) http://www.stuckism.com/realturner.html, co-written with Charles Thomson
On the Turner Prize. Mostly quoted as "an ongoing national joke" or just a "national joke."
Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22876-2475809.html The Times, 2006-12-02
On his father and a fight they had when Childish was 20 years old.
Milner, Frank (ed): The Stuckists Punk Victorian, p. 21. National Museums Liverpool, 2005.
“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
“I like being on the margins. You work better there.”
Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22876-2475809.html The Times, 2006-12-02
Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22876-2475809.html The Times, 2006-12-02
Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22876-2475809.html The Times, 2006-12-02
On a party in the mid-1990s.
Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22876-2475809.html 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).
