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Billy Childish has been around a long time. He is not only an artist but a poet and a composer of music. He was also at one time in the dim long ago Tracey’s Emin’s mentor, a connection that she now seems increasingly inclined to try and erase from the record.
I serve the needs of the painting, not my ego – BC
It was indeed Tracey who gave the Stuckist Movement its name, even though Billy was never a member, by yelling at him when they broke up: ‘The trouble with you, Billy is that you’re stuck! Stuck! Stuck!’. Billy now denies all connection with Stuckism, though adherents to this now widespread movement admire him.