Leigh Bowery, an Australian performance artist and designer in London who was perhaps best known as a model for the English painter Lucien Freud, died on Dec. 30 in Middlesex Hospital near London. He was 33 and lived in London. The cause was AIDS, said his wife, Nicola Bowery.
Also When did Leigh Bowery die? Let’s hope so. These days, Nicola is a mother-of-two living happily in Brighton with her partner.
Likewise Is Leigh Bowery a club kid? Dressed in looks dripping in colour, with overdrawn lips and exaggerated silhouettes distorting his form beyond recognition, Leigh Bowery is the Christian boy who became an icon of club-kid history, inspiring everyone from Alexander McQueen (who once went to see his band Minty before their Soho residency was shut down …
Was Leigh Bowery a drag queen? A natural show-off, Bowery turned exhibitionism into an artform. ‘I was never interested in simply being a drag queen,’ he once said. Using wigs, masks, heavy make-up and clothes he designed and made himself, Bowery transformed himself with each new look.
Who was Leigh Bowery inspired by?
“My lights are still on, you know.” Growing up a chubby and bullied outcast in the dreary suburbs of Melbourne, Leigh Bowery spent much of his youth devouring the British fashion magazines that inspired him to move to London in 1980 and become a fashion designer. Instead he became his own greatest creation.
Where is Leigh Bowery buried? Following his death from HIV-related illness in London – when ‘all the freaks in London’ are said to have gone into mourning, Leigh Bowery was buried in Australia alongside his mother.
Who painted Leigh Bowery? Freud’s first painting of him was Leigh Bowery (Seated) 1990 (private collection). To accommodate and emphasise Bowery’s enormous scale, it was one of the largest paintings Freud had ever made (2437 x 1830mm).
Was Leigh Bowery straight? Personal life. Although Bowery was known to be and always described himself as gay, he married his long-time female companion Nicola Bateman on 13 May 1994 in Tower Hamlets, London, in “a personal art performance”.
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