Editing Billy Childish (section)

==Tracey Emin==
{{main | Tracey Emin}}
During the 1980s, Childish was an influence on the artist [[Tracey Emin]], whom he met in 1982, after his expulsion from the painting department at Saint Martin's School of Art. Emin was a fashion student at [[Kent Institute of Art & Design|Medway College of Design]]. Emin and Childish were a couple until 1987,<ref name="THE AQUARIUM L-13 Artist profile">{{cite web | title=Billy Childish Profile |url=http://www.theaquariumonline.co.uk/acatalog/copy_of_Billy_Childish_profile.html |access-date=6 February 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202184744/http://www.theaquariumonline.co.uk/acatalog/copy_of_Billy_Childish_profile.html |archive-date=2 February 2014 |quote="My relationship with Tracey Emin finished in 1987 – 21 years ago, to be exact. Whilst I like and respect Tracey, and wish her well, the relationship is not significant in respect of my current life, and therefore I choose not to discuss it"}}</ref> Emin selling his poetry books for his small press [[Hangman Books]]. In 1995 she was interviewed in the ''Minky Manky'' show catalogue by [[Carl Freedman]], who asked her, "Which person do you think has had the greatest influence on your life?" She replied:
:Uhmm... It's not a person really. It was more a time, going to Maidstone College of Art, hanging around with Billy Childish, living by the River Medway.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Thomson |first1=Charles |title=The Stuckists : punk Victorian |date=2004 |publisher=National Museums Liverpool |location=Liverpool |isbn=9781902700274 |url=https://www.stuckism.com/Walker/AStuckistOnStuckism.html |access-date=21 July 2022 |archive-date=21 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220721105414/https://www.stuckism.com/Walker/AStuckistOnStuckism.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Emin's work ''[[Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995]]'' (1995) was first exhibited in the show, and Childish's name was displayed prominently in it.{{cn|date=June 2024}}