the river garden (2025)
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Billy Childish’s subjects are often drawn from his environment or are people he knows or admires: birch forests, self-portraits, a lone figure in a pastoral English landscape, and his wife as a reclining female nude. Childish works quickly and intuitively, making spare marks on raw canvas that leave much of it visible.
the river garden (2025) is part of a series of Childish’s works inspired by archival photographs taken during the Second Boer War - not of conflict, but of reprieve: people in boats, resting in trees, finding stillness in nature. This print shifts the focus from war to wonder, capturing the universal feeling of presence within the natural world.
Billy Childish (b. 1959, Chatham, Kent, United Kingdom) is known for his introspective, autobiographical, and deeply emotional paintings, writing, and music.
Childish attended Medway College of Design, Kent in 1977 and Saint Martin’s School of Art, London in 1978. Solo exhibitions of his work have been organized at He Art Museum, Guangdong, China (2024); Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, UK (2023); Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY (2022), London (2022), and Seoul (2020); Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany (2018); Villa Schöningen, Berlin, Germany (2017); Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, TX (2017); Rochester Art Gallery, Kent, United Kingdom (2016); Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, Frankfurt, Germany (2016); White Columns, New York (2010); and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2010). Select group exhibitions featuring his work include Billy Childish, Franz Gertsch, Alex Katz, Galleria Monica de Cardenas, St. Moritz, Switzerland (2018); Future Seasons Past, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY (2015); The Islanders, Galerie Mikael Anderson, Copenhagen, Denmark (2015); BILLY CHILDISH, HARRY ADAMS and EDGEWORTH JOHNSTONE: Our Friend Larionov, Pushkin House, London (2014); Paintings Sweet Paintings, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aache, Germany (2014); and British Art Show 5, City Art Centre, Edinburgh (2000).
