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Billy Childish ‘Unknowable but Certain’ at the ICA
Billy Childish, anti-art industry punk painter displays his backcatalogue at the ICA
Written by Amica Lane
Courtesy the artist and L-13, London
Billy Childish is a man of many faces; musician, writer, painter and film maker, he is a name that many people are familiar with, yet find hard to categorize as coming from one particular background. Billy Childish – the singer? Artist? Former one half of the Childish/Emin art power couple that helped launch the Stuckism movement amongst other things.
Envisioning the idea of who Billy Childish is; I tend to think of him more as a drifting outsider, painting away somewhere near the Thames Estuary rather than being displayed inside the glossy walls of the ICA.
But yet, here he is.
The message of his art has a strange juxtaposition here.
