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BILL BILLINGS,  M.A.  M.B.E.

Education:

1950 – 55                  Grammar School, Barnsbury and Highbury

1955 – 57                  London School of Printing

Exams:                      5 O’Levels

City and Guilds Printing Diploma

Career:         

1957 – 69                  Royal Signals

Arab Levies on Active Service

1969 – 74                  British Telecom Engineer

1974 (3 Months)      Community Artist in Sweden – Gottenburg and Norskopping.

Studies for Youth and Community Diploma (Bucks County Council

1975 – 78                 Milton Keynes Development Corporation Community Artist

1978                          Tutor at America Summer School – New Hampshire

1979                           Tour of Washington/Boston/Pennsylvania Colleges lecturing as a poet and artist

1980 – 88                 Milton Keynes Borough Council – Local Government Officer

for Recreation Department – Playgrounds

1988 (ongoing)         Part-time lecturer in 3D at Milton Keynes College

Freelance Artist / Sculptor / Poet


 * 1) Commission to build a wooden pony for the Inner City Farm, London for Inter Action

Commission to build props for the ‘Almost Free Theatre’

for Susanna York

Bill Billings Bill Billing

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

500 hundred pay respects to 'people's artist' Bill Billings Published: 12:38 Wednesday 16 January 2008

Popular people's artist Bill Billings was a secret SAS hero – but too modest to talk about it. The self-confessed rebel's acts of courage were only revealed at his funeral, when an SAS beret and cluster of medals decorated his coffin.

Bill was a lifelong member of the SAS but he didn't tell anyone – he just wasn't the type to talk about himself. Even I don't know anything about what he did or where he went.

The Secret Garden Project

A self-styled poet, playwright, painter, sculptor and musician, Bill introduced street art to thousands of people from all walks of life – including prisoners. One of his most famous projects was the huge concrete dinosaur at Peartree Bridge.

He wrote several radio plays that were broadcast in 1998.

His services to the community earned him an MBE in 2000, but the official recognition did not tone down his battles with authority to further his community art aims.

If I have had any enemies it's because I'm crude and scruffy, but I've always stayed true to myself.

Bill collapsed suddenly from a heart attack on Boxing Day. Fittingly, 69-year-old Bill had been in the middle of making his family laugh with a series of hilarious

impressions.Some 500 people including 10 SAS colleagues – attended Bill's funeral at St Peter and St Paul's Church, Newport Pagnell, last Thursday."People came from all walks of life. There were schoolchildren, teenagers, former prisoners and pensioners; they all wanted to say goodbye." said Maggie.A poem from Maggie was read out in Bill's memory. His grandson read another poem and his nephew played his favourite Buddy Holly song. Already Bill's son Ryan, an artist himself, has made sure his father's memory lives on in the streets by painting a mural of Bill and a trademark dinosaur on a wall of the bus station skateboard park.

https://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/five-hundred-pay-respects-to-people-s-artist-bill-billings-1-865852

Born	William Fred Billing,

U.S.(aged 58) New York City, U.S.

Education	Carnegie Institute of Technology (Carnegie Mellon University) Known for	Printmaking, painting, cinema, photography Notable work	Chelsea Girls (1966 film) Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966 event) Campbell's Soup Cans (1962 painting) Marilyn Diptych (1962 painting) Movement	Pop art Andy Warhol (/ˈwɔːrhɒl/;[1] born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertising that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture. Some of his best known works include the silkscreen paintings Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) and Marilyn Diptych (1962), the experimental film Chelsea Girls (1966), and the multimedia events known as the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966–67).

Born and raised in, initially pursued a successful career as a3]

==== Contents  1	Biography 1.1	Early life and beginnings (1928–49) 1.2	1950s 1.3	1960s 1.3.1	Attempted murder (1968) 1.4	1970s 1.5	1980s 2	Works 2.1	Paintings 2.2	Films 2.2.1	Filmography 2.3	Factory in New York 2.4	Music 2.5	Books and print 2.6	Other media 2.7	Producer and product 3	Personal life 3.1	Sexuality 3.2	Religious beliefs 3.3	Collections 3.4	Death 4	Foundation 5  5.1	Films 5.2	Documentaries 5.3	Television 6	Honors 7	See also 8	References 9	Further reading 10	External links Biography Early life and beginnings (1928–49) ====

==== Childhood home. 3252 Dawson Street, South Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Warhol was born on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[4] He was the fourth child of Ondrej Warhola (Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889–1942)[5][6][7] and Julia (née Zavacká, 1892–1972),[8] whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U.S. ==== His parents were working-class father - Mother Murals (1968)

between 1966 and 1977

1970s

President Jimmy Carter and Warhol in 1977

Warhol had captured something irresistible about the zeitgeist of American culture in the 1970s."[53]

Warhol also had an appreciation for intense Hollywood glamour. He once said: "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're so beautiful. Everything's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic."[54]

In 1984, Warhol immortalized the singer Prince by creating one of his final portraits.

Religious beliefs

Death

Pearce portrayed Warhol in the film Factory Girl (2007) about Edie Sedgwick's life.[153] Actor Greg Travis portrays Warhol in a brief scene from the film Watchmen (2009).

Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: "Warhol" "Andy Warhol painting sells for $105M".