Steven John Hamper, conosciuto come Billy Childish , è un musicista, pittore, poeta, scrittore e fotografo inglese noto per i suoi prolifici ed espliciti lavori.
Nelle sue opere fortemente autobiografiche ha raccontato in dettaglio la propria vita amorosa e gli abusi sessuali subiti durante l'infanzia.
Ha pubblicato oltre cento album sia da solista sotto altri pseudonimi quali William Charlie Hamper, Bill Hamper, Bill Hamper-Childish, Guy Hamper, Jack Ketch, Gus Claudius e Danger Bill Henderson che come componente di vari gruppi tra cui Milkshakes, The Mighty Caesars e Blackhands
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“It has become an ongoing national joke.”
From The Turner Prize manifesto (2000) http://www.stuckism.com/realturner.html, co-written with Charles Thomson
On the Turner Prize. Mostly quoted as "an ongoing national joke" or just a "national joke."
Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22876-2475809.html The Times, 2006-12-02
On his father and a fight they had when Childish was 20 years old.
Milner, Frank (ed): The Stuckists Punk Victorian, p. 21. National Museums Liverpool, 2005.
“Artists who don't paint aren't artists.”
Milner, Frank (ed): The Stuckists Punk Victorian [National Museums Liverpool, 2005], p. 134
From The Stuckist Manifesto, (1999) co-written with Charles Thomson
“I like being on the margins. You work better there.”
Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22876-2475809.html The Times, 2006-12-02
Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22876-2475809.html The Times, 2006-12-02
Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22876-2475809.html The Times, 2006-12-02
On a party in the mid-1990s.
Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22876-2475809.html The Times, 2006-12-02
Childish's name is the most prominent in Tracey Emin's Everyone I have Ever Slept With 1963–1995, appliquéd names in a tent (destroyed in the Momart warehouse fire).
