|CLUB KIDS SERIES ➋| LEIGH BOWERY

Leigh Bowery was an Australian performance artist, club promoter, actor, pop star, model and fashion designer, based in London. Bowery is considered one of the more influential figures in the 1980s and 1990s London and New York art and fashion circles influencing a generation of artists and designers. 

His influence reached through the fashion, club and art worlds to impact, amongst others, Alexander McQueen, Lucian Freud, Vivienne Westwood, Boy George, Antony and the Johnsons, John Galliano, the Scissor Sisters, David LaChapelle, Lady Bunny plus numerous Nu-Rave bands and nightclubs in London and New York which arguably perpetuated his avant garde ideas.

The effect of his creations were often mesmerizing as well as shocking to behold. His 1993 performance at Wigstock in which Leigh “gives birth” to a very large baby covered in placenta epitomized his desire to shock and amaze his audiences. 

Leigh Bowery died unexpectedly from an AIDS-related illness on New Year’s Eve 1994. He had kept his illness a secret and very few people knew he was sick.

Reportedly one death bed pronouncement "Tell them I've gone pig farming in Bolivia", illustrates the gallows humour and dark irony that can be traced in much of his work. Among his last requests was that his middle name be unknown.

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