Charlie Billingham's *Tum 9* is an oil on linen painting that showcases the artist's distinctive approach to figuration, where abstraction and representation blur into one another. Billingham's loose, expressive brushwork renders the human form with a playful yet probing quality, drawing attention to the physicality and vulnerability of the body. The linen support lends the work a warm, textured ground that animates the painted surface with a sense of intimacy and immediacy.