Born 65 years ago today: ultra-freaky post-punk drag monster, performance artist, nightclub promoter, fashion designer, artist’s model, muse, musician, Australia’s twisted gift to the world and all-round visionary - Leigh Bowery (26 March 1961 - 31 Dec 1994)! #leighbowery #lobotomyroom #freakdiva
Leigh Bowery (1961-1994) Llegó a la capital británica para estudiar moda y, cuando comenzó a desarrollar sus diseños, el acercamiento irónico al mal gusto y al kitch le permitieron alejarse de las convenciones para desarrollar un estilo humorístico.
(Sigue)
#LeighBowery #LucianFreud
#NicolaBateman
Pleased to be publishing my first archival project. Kinky Gerlinky Nights which will be available through Etsy. I’ll post a link when they are done! #kinkygerlinky #londonnightlife #leighbowery #alternative
Re-posted for the evening crowd. #quickdraw #draw #drawing #quicksketch #sketch #sketchbook #LeighBowery
Some of my favourite shots from my visit to the #LeighBowery exhibition at #TateModern last week. An audacious and inspiring collection - Bowery really was one of a kind!
Absolutely incredible #LeighBowery! exhibition at #TateModern You still have a week left to catch it! We spent about 2.5 hours in there, so much to see, read and watch! 👏
A cunt outfit
Leigh Bowery’s costumes
Leigh Bowery portrait
Leigh Bowery portrait
Leigh Bowery at the Tate Modern was absorbing, colourful, and a time capsule for 80s queer London #TateModern #LeighBowery #Queer #Punk #Camp
#leighbowery #leighbowerytate #clubkids #1980s #fashion #contemporaryart #queerart #clubculture #1980slondon #radicalfashion
the life and times of an icon 🖤 time out after eleven hours in the car! cheers!
#leighbowery #suetilley @suetilley.bsky.social
Leigh on the clothes show. A bbc mainstream tv show. He has white spiky abstract snowflake hair and thick black lipstick with boggle eyed spectacles
Leigh in an abstract barely human form. A neighbour waves jauntily at someone and doesn’t even notice Leigh.
Leigh and Nicola rainbird. She is upside down and strapped to his body as if about to be born.
Letter to Sue Tilley from Leigh. It’s filthy.
Why do I love #LeighBowery ? He was absurd, filthy, vulnerable, daft, ridiculously smart & he made art with/about his body that had never been imagined before. I’ve loved him for years. The #Tate show does him justice.
Would You Let Yourself In?'
Remembering the era-defining #LeighBowery at the #TateModern with Lewis Oswald.
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Dancer with mohawk, wearing a glam black in all in one, in a kneeling lunge; in front of stylised tall flower stems with fried egg flowers.
The Leigh Bowery exhibition at @tatemodern.bsky.social did not disappoint. Going back for more tomorrow.
Hail the New Puritan!
Films, fab outfits, getting weirder and kinkier as you travel in.
#LeighBowery #MichaelClark #MarkESmith
Two portraits of Leigh Bowery, in costume, Tate Modern, London 2925
Photograph of Leigh Bowery and Boy George from the 1980s. Tate Modern, London, 2025
Selection of photographys from the 80s & 90s, Tate Modern, London, 2025
One of Leigh Bowery's elaborate costumes for the 1980s, incl7ding mask and wig. Tate Modern, London, 2025
Tate Modern London, have a celebration of the very diverse work and life of Leigh Bowery. For me it was the photography, but this multi-media show brings the 80s back to vibrant life- postcards from his tours, costumes and a BBC interview that is just 👌
#tatemodern #photography #leighbowery #london
The #LeighBowery exhibition at Tate Modern is the most fun I've had in an art gallery for ages. Judging by the smiles of the other visitors I was not alone. 😎 #Art #London
More drawings that I’ve done Since Yesterday based on the splendid Leigh Bowery! Exhibition at Tate Modern.
#leighbowery #tatemodern #artexhibition #80style #levis #strawberryswitchblade #sketchingstrangers #fineliner #fashiondrawings #fashionillustration #fashion
I always found Leigh Bowery very scary, and, even now that I understand him a bit better, I would probably still run away from him. This is a great exhibition though, loads to see and read and laugh about.
#leighbowery #leighboweryattatemodern #tatemodernmuseum #tatemodernlondon #sketching
Tate Modern visit:
2: #LeighBowery
A unique individual - 80s club fiend, costume designer, sitter, icon, performance artist, victim of AIDS age 33.
In a way the final part of a trilogy with 80s Photography exhibition at Tate Britain & the Face exhibition at NPG.
An exhibition where my Aussie friend passionately schooled me on #LeighBowery - performance artist, fashion renegade, absolute icon. I was not prepared. Australia really gave the world that. 💥🇦🇺 #ArtLegend
A fat gay man screaming at a picture of a fat gay man screaming “LEIGH”
Three manikins dressed in Leigh Bowery fashions and facekinis
A white suit declaring “a cunt”
A signed Polaroid of Leigh Bowery in dripping-headed glory
Went to a place. Saw a thing. It was good.
#LeighBowery #TateModern
Why should the world be over-wise /In counting all our tears and sighs? /Nay, let them only see us, while /We wear the mask
▶️ #LeighBowery 🎭 🎟️ #TateModern 💻Review www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... ℹ️ www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...
Portrait de Leigh Bowery
Tenues de et par Leigh Bowery
Je sors tout ému de l’exposition consacrée à #LeighBowery à la #TateModern
Ami·e·s du lobby 🏳️🌈 c’est indispensable si vous passez par Londres (sinon c’est l’occasion d’y aller).
#LGBTQI
Enjoyed a lot of great photography and art yesterday! #leighbowery #80sphotography #tatemodern #tatebritain
Londoners love sharing stories from their past. #LeighBowery exhibition @tate.bsky.social #TateModern with #KatharinaAicher yesterday. We come from differing generations but both agree 1980s was the decade to grow up in. Party, Fun, Communitiy & Rebellion. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife3
the great @ron-athey.bsky.social honoring the great Leigh Bowery
#leighbowery
Absolutely loved the #LeighBowery exhibition at #TateModern! Extra sequins will be applied to everything from now on!
#Queerart #pigeon #doubleexposure #snapseed
“Laughing screaming tumbling queen...”
Whilst in that there London, I took a trip to the Tate to catch up with the #LeighBowery exhibit.
He really was “... the most amazing light show you’ve ever seen”
