BILLY CHILDISH

Lehmann Maupin presents an exhibition of a new series of landscape paintings by British painter Billy Childish. 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 realize 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. This marks the first exhibition in 2025 at Lehmann Maupin’s temporary space, located at No.9 Cork Street in London’s Mayfair Neighborhood.