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Doig later co-curated Childish's earliest London show at the Cubit Street Gallery. At St Martins, Childish became friends with Peter Doig with whom he shared an appreciation of Munch, Van Gogh and blues music. He was re-accepted at St Martins in 1980, but was expelled in 1982 for refusing to paint in the art school and other unruly behaviour. He studied foundation at Medway College of Design in 1977-1978, and was then accepted onto the painting department of St Martins School of Art in 1978, before quitting a month later. Painting Īs a prospective student lacking the necessary entry qualifications, Childish was accepted into art school 4 times on the strength of his paintings and drawings. Childish has practised yoga and meditation since the early 1990s. In 2006 Childish turned down the offer to appear on Channel 4's Celebrity Big Brother UK. On the basis of this work he was accepted into St Martin’s School of Art. During the next six months (the artist’s only prolonged period of conventional employment), he produced some 600 drawings in 'the tea huts of hell'.

Refused an interview at the local art college, he entered Chatham Dockyard, Kent, as an apprentice stonemason. I didn't tell anyone.' He left secondary school at 16, an undiagnosed dyslexic. It happened for several nights, then I refused to go near him. He was sexually abused when he was aged 9 by a male family friend: 'We were on holiday. Although he had an early and extremely close association with many of the artists who became known as 'YBA' artists he has resolutely asserted his independent status. The Drinker, oil painting, 1996.Ĭhildish was born Stephen John Hamper in Chatham, Kent, England, where he lives and works. Youth and education File:Childish,-The-Drinker-600.jpgīilly Childish. Since then a new evaluation of Childish's standing in the art world has been under way, culminating with the publication of a critical study of Childish's working practice by the artist and writer Neal Brown, with an introduction by Peter Doig, which describes Childish as 'one of the most outstanding, and often misunderstood, figures on the British art scene'.

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He is a consistent advocate for amateurism and free emotional expression and was a co-founder of the Stuckism art movement with Charles Thomson in 1999, which he left in 2001. From 1981 till 1985 Childish had a relationship with artist Tracey Emin and has also been associated with another British artist Stella Vine. Chyldish is known for his explicit and prolific work – he has detailed his love life and childhood sexual abuse, notably in his early poetry and the novels My Fault (1996), Notebooks of a Naked Youth (1997), Sex Crimes of the Futcher (2004) – The Idiocy of Idears (2007), and in several of his songs, notably in the instrumental 'Paedophile' (1992) (featuring a photograph of the man who sexually abused him on the front cover) and 'Every Bit of Me' (1993).

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