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"Dirty Laundry; Brit Artists Tracey Emin and Billy Childish Go Very Public," Iain Aitch.
www.gettingit.com (November 23, 1999).


In the blue corner is Tracey Emin, a woman who has turned her whole life teenage rape, botched abortion, drunkenness, depression, and all into art, and is now the leading contender for Britain's biggest art award, the Turner Prize (to be awarded November 30).

In the red corner is the challenger: painter, poet, singer, and garage-punk guru, Billy Childish. Childish has been described as "a seething, dyslexic, better looking, British Bukowski," and has been turned down by or thrown out of most of London's best art colleges.

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