Billy Childish

Billy Childish
Lahir	Steven John Hamper 1 Desember 1959 Chatham, Kent, Inggris
Pekerjaan	Pelukis penulis penyanyi fotografer sineas musisi
Tahun aktif	1977–sekarang
Suami/istri	Julie Hamper

Steven John Hamper, dikenal dengan nama Billy Childish (lahir 1 Desember 1959) adalah seorang pelukis, penulis, penyair, fotografer, sineas, dan musisi yang berasal dari Inggris. Ia pernah menjadi bagian dari beberapa band meliputi the Pop Rivets, Thee Milkshakes, Thee Headcoats, dan the Musicians of the British Empire. Ia juga merupakan salah satu pendiri dari gerakan seni Stuckism pada tahun 1999 yang mempromosikan lukisan figuratif. Melalui karyanya, ia mengembangkan konsep seni antagonisme dan amatirisme.

Masa muda

Billy hidup bersama ayah dan saudara laki-lakinya di Chatham. Ia telah ditinggal oleh ayahnya ketika berusia tujuh tahun. Saat usianya beranjak sembilan tahun, ia menderita disleksia dan pernah mengalami pelecehan seksual. Ia pernah menjadi tukang batu di Naval Dockyard selama enam bulan dan menghasilkan lebih dari 600 gambar. Tahun 1978, Billy diterima di St. Martin’s School of Art dan keluar sebulan setelahnya. Ia sempat masuk kembali pada tahun 1980, tetapi ditolak. Ia mendapat gelar doktor dalam bidang seni dari University of Kent pada tahun 2014.

Selama lima belas tahun ia hidup dengan nama samaran Kurt Schwitters. Ia menjadi seniman di Chatham Historic Dockyard saat berusia 52 tahun. Pada tahun 2012, ia telah tercatat menghasilkan karya lebih dari 40 puisi, 100 album, dan 2000 lukisan.

Lukisan

• 
  Thumbprint (1997)
• 
  St John's Church, Chatham (2004)
• 
  Tea Drinker, High Atlas (2008)

Diskografi

Album

• The 1982 Cassetes (1987)
• I've Got Everything Indeed (1987)
• I Remember... (1988)
• Poems Of Laughter And Violence (Selected Poetry) (1988)
• 50 Albums Great (1991)
• The Sudden Fart Of Larfter (1992)
• Der Henkermann (Kitchen Recordings) (1992)
• Torments Nest (1993)
• Hunger At The Moon (1993)
• Made With A Passion (Kitchen Demo's) (1996)
• Billy Childish / Dan Melchior – Devil In The Flesh (1998)
• Punk Rock at the British Legion Hall (2007)
• Poems Of A Backwater Visionary (2007)
• The XFM Sessions (2007)
• Christmas 1979 (2007)
• Thatcher's Children (2008)
• Live in the Netherlands (2008)
• Play Capt. Calypso's Hoodoo Party (2008)
• Live At The Aquarium - Unedited Uncut Uncorrected (2008)
• Forensic R'N'B [Digipak] (2011)
• All Our Forts Are With You (2013)
• A Tribute To A. E. Housman (2013)
• Archive from 1959: The Billy Childish Story (2014)
• Brand New Cage (2017)
• Last Punk Standing (2019)
• Kings of the Medway Delta (2020)
• All My Feelings Denied (blues) (2020)
• Kings of the Medway Delta (2020)

Single & EPs

• The Ballad Of Hollis Brown (1992)
• Trembling Of Life (1993)
• Hangman Comunication (1999)
• Evidence Against Myself (2002)

Kompilasi

• I Am The Billy Childish (1991)
• The Billy Childish Native American Sampler - A History 1983–1993 (1993)
• Crimes Against Music (Blues Recordings 1986–99) (1999)
• 25 Years Of Being Childish (2002)
• My First Billy Childish Album (2006)
• Archive From 1959 - The Billy Childish Story (2009)
• Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot! The Billy Childish Story 1977–2018 (2019)

Filmografi

Aktor

Tahun	Judul	Peran	Ref.
1982	Quiet Lives	William Loveday
1991	Room for Rent	William Loveday
1997	Pervirella	Thee Headcoats

Sineas

Tahun	Judul	Peran	Ref.
1991	Sub Pop Video Network Program 1	Sutradara dan Editor

Karya tulis

Buku

• Back on Red Lite Red (1981)
• Will the Circle Be Unbroken? (1983)
• Poems from the Barrier Block (1984)
• Poems withour rhyme without reason without spelling without words without nothing (1985)
• Monks Without God (1986)
• Companions in a Death Boat (1987)
• Conversations with Doctor X (1987)
• Girl in the Tree (1988)
• To The Quick (1988)
• Maverick Verse (1988)
• Admissions to Strangers (1989)
• The Silence of Words (1989)
• The Deadly Flight of Angels (1990)
• Child's Death Letter: Selected Lyrics (1990)
• Death of a Wood (1990)
• My Fault (1991)
• Like a God I Love All Things (1991)
• The Hart Rises (1992)
• Poems of Laughter and Violence: Selected Poems, 1981–1986 (1992)
• Hunger at the Moon (1993)
• Day With a Hart Like a Dog (1994)
• Big hart and balls: Poems and drawings (1994)
• Poems to Break the Harts of Impossible Princesses (1994)
• In 5 Minits You'll Know Me Selected Poems 1985–1995 (1996)
• Notebooks of a Naked Youth (1997)
• I'd Rather You Lied: Selected Poems 1980–1998 (1999)
• Huddie (1999)
• Hendrix was Not the Only Musician (2000)
• 25 Years of Being Childish (2002)
• Calling Thing by Their Proper Names (2003)
• Sex Crimes of the Futcher (2004)
• The 1st Green Horse God Has Ever Made (2004)
• Paintings of a Backwater Visionary (2005)
• Gun in My Father's Hand: Selected Lyrics, 1977–2006 (2006)
• The Idiocy of Idears (2007)
• The Man With the Gallows Eyes: Selected Poetry 1980–2005 (2007)
• Old 4 Legs (2008)
• Where The Tiger Prowls Striped and Unseen (2008)
• The Uncorrected Billy Chyldish: Selected Poems (2009)
• The Stonemason (2010)
• Frozen Estuary and Other Paintings of the Divine Orginary (2012)
• the sudden wren or painting lessons for poets and other mediochur cunts (2013)
• the river be my blud: medway poems 1980–2005 (2013)
• Billy Childish (2013)
• In the Teeth of Deamons (2015)
• The Ward Porter (2015)
• The Uncorrected (2018)
• If you fly with the crows... Selected Poetry 2015–2019 (2019)
• 100 Yds of Crash Barrier Cancer of the Gallows and Other Poems Nobody Wants (2021)