Editing Billy Childish (section)

==Painting==
As a prospective student lacking the necessary entry qualifications, Childish was accepted into art school four times on the strength of his paintings and drawings. He did a foundation year at Medway College of Design (now the [[University for the Creative Arts]]) in 1977–78, and was then accepted onto the painting department of Saint Martin's School of Art in 1978, before quitting a month later. He was re-accepted at St Martin's in 1980, but was expelled in 1982 for refusing to paint in the art school and other unruly behaviour. At Saint Martin's, Childish became friends with [[Peter Doig]], with whom he shared an appreciation of [[Edvard Munch|Munch]], [[Van Gogh]], and blues music. Doig later co-curated Childish's first London show at the Cubit Street Gallery. In the early/mid 1980s Childish was a "major influence" on the artist [[Tracey Emin]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/england/london-travel/billy-childish-and-his-weird-world-zxnk9k7l0c6|title=Billy Childish and his weird world|access-date=9 June 2021|website=[[The Times]]|location=London|archive-date=28 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128174345/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/billy-childish-and-his-weird-world-zxnk9k7l0c6|url-status=live}}</ref> whom he met after his expulsion from Saint Martin's when she was a fashion student at Medway College of Design. Childish has been cited as the influence for Emin's later confessional art. Childish has exhibited extensively since the 1980s, and was featured in the [[British Art Show]] in 2000. In 2010, a major exhibition of Childish's paintings, writing, and music was held at The ICA London, with a concurrent painting show running at White Columns Gallery in New York City. In October 2012, alongside [[Art Below]], Childish presented his work at the exhibition Art Below Regents Park in [[Regent's Park]] Tube station to coincide with [[Frieze Art Fair]], one of the most important international contemporary art fairs that takes place each October in London.{{cn|date=June 2024}}

In 2013, Childish began a painting collaboration with Edgeworth Johnstone,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rosenau |first=Mirja |date=Dec 2024 |title=FAMILIEN BANDE |journal=Art Magazin |pages=87}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Kwai |first=Isabella |date=October 3, 2024 |title=The Artist as 'Ever-Moving Target': Billy Childish Refuses All Labels |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/arts/design/frieze-london-billy-childish.html |access-date=15 October 2024 |work=The New York Times}}</ref> later titled Heckel's Horse.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Thomson |first=Charles |date=11 Dec 2024 |title=Tate Artist Excluded from Tate for Turner Prize Leaflet, paragraph 16 |url=https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/11/tate-artist-excluded-from-tate-for-turner-prize-leaflet/ |access-date=12 Dec 2024 |website=Counterpunch}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Heckel's Horse Limited Edition "Woman and Deer" |url=https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/130166845_heckel-s-horse-limited-edition-woman-and-deer |website=Live Auctioneers |access-date=5 October 2022 |archive-date=5 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005100023/https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/130166845_heckel-s-horse-limited-edition-woman-and-deer |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Whittle |first1=Nathan |title=Louder than war, paragraph 4 |url=https://louderthanwar.com/the-william-loveday-intention-the-baptiser-album-review/ |website=Louder than war |date=27 March 2022 |access-date=5 October 2022 |archive-date=22 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221222121333/https://louderthanwar.com/the-william-loveday-intention-the-baptiser-album-review/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Since 2013, after [[Charles Thomson (artist)|Charles Thomson]] (who co-founded [[Stuckism]] with Childish in 1999) introduced Childish to Johnstone's work, Heckel's Horse have made over 150 oil paintings, mostly on six foot Belgian linen canvases in Childish's studio at [[Chatham Dockyard]] in [[Kent]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Balanescu |first=Miriam |date=13 March 2024 |title=Artist Edgeworth Johnstone on his collaborations with Billy Childish |url=https://haringeycommunitypress.co.uk/2024/03/13/artist-edgeworth-johnstone-on-his-collaborations-with-billy-childish/ |url-status=live |access-date=19 March 2024 |website=Haringey Community Press |archive-date=19 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240319190311/https://haringeycommunitypress.co.uk/2024/03/13/artist-edgeworth-johnstone-on-his-collaborations-with-billy-childish/ }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Heckel's Horse Reproduction Prints |url=https://l-13.org/product/heckels-horse-reproduction-prints/ |website=L-13 |publisher=L-13 LIGHT INDUSTRIAL WORKSHOP |access-date=5 October 2022 |archive-date=4 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004210026/https://l-13.org/product/heckels-horse-reproduction-prints/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2024, Childish referred to Heckel's Horse as his "favourite work".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Keevil |first=Steven |date=31 March 2024 |title=I don't identify really as Billy Childish |url=https://www.localauthority.news/p/233eca25-e32c-450e-99e7-a8486b03f038 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240331204734/https://www.localauthority.news/p/233eca25-e32c-450e-99e7-a8486b03f038 |archive-date=31 March 2024 |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Local Authority}}</ref>

<gallery mode="packed" heights="110px">
File:BillyChildish-walkingingodsbuti-2013.jpg|''walking in gods buti'', Oil and charcoal on linen (274.5 x 183&nbsp;cm), 2013
File:BillyChildish-Clammingonmaud-2013.jpg|''clamming on maud'', Oil and charcoal on linen (183 x 305&nbsp;cm), 2013
File:Childish-in 5 Minits You'll-Know-Me 500.jpg|''In 5 Minits You'll Know Me'' (sic), oil on canvas, 1997
File:Childish-Thumbprint-500.jpg|''Thumbprint'', oil on canvas, 1997
File:Childish-Man-in-Snow-500.jpg|''Man Walking in Snow'', oil on canvas, 1999
File:Childish-BC033-500.jpg|''Hand on Face'', oil on canvas, 2000
File:Childish-Man-in-Landscape-600.jpg|''North Beach, San Francisco'', oil on canvas, 2000
File:Childish-Chatham-500.jpg|''St. John's Church, Chatham'', oil on canvas, 2000
File:Childish-Yellow-Clothes 500.jpg|''Tea Drinker, High Atlas'', oil on canvas, 2007
File:Medway Steam Boat 2.jpg|''John H Amos 2'', oil on canvas, 2008
</gallery>