FRIEZE LONDON 2024

A new series of landscape paintings by Billy Childish will debut at the booth. Childish’s artistic practice is all encompassing, spanning poetry and prose, punk rock music, and photography, printmaking, and painting. Known for his vivid, emotionally charged paintings on warm linen canvas, the artist works quickly and intuitively to realise each work, sketching the underlying composition in charcoal within a hand-drawn frame and using a rich palette of oil paint to render light, shadow, volume, and form. The subjects in Childish’s paintings are often taken from his immediate environment—the River Medway in South East England, self-portraits, the chalk cliffs of Margate, and images of his family make frequent appearances. The artist’s work also veers into the imagined world, with the artist finding inspiration everywhere, from film scenes, to historical photographs, to his own internal dreamscapes.