Billy Childish

Chatham

It would be a tall task to find another artist so intrinsically linked to the city Chatham than Billy Childish – a local cult icon and internationally celebrated painter, writer and musician who was born in Chatham and has spent the last 35 years developing an impressive body of work that is staggering in both scope and scale.

As a young man Childish spent six months in 1976 working as an apprentice Stonemason in Chatham’s Dockyard, and in 2011 he returned to the Dockyard as its first official Artist in Residence. Now, the culmination of this residency forms an exhibition of new paintings, drawings and prints at the Dockyard’s gallery – No.1 Smithery: The Gallery, whilst other work made during this period will be sent around the world and shown in solo exhibitions in London, Seoul, Berlin and then Los Angeles.

No. 1 Smithery

June 1st – September 30th, 2012
The Historic Dockyard
Chatham
Kent ME4 4TE
UK

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