Leigh Bowery was an Australian dancer, born in 1961 in Melbourne, who died in 1994.
Biography
Leigh Bowery (26 March 1961 – 31 December 1994) was an Australian performance artist, club promoter, and fashion designer. Bowery's performances featured striking costumes and make-up and were conceptual, flamboyant, outlandish, and sometimes controversial.
Based in London for much of his adult life, he was a model and muse for the English painter Lucian Freud. Bowery's friend and fellow performer Boy George said he saw Bowery's performances a number of times, and that they "never ceased to impress or revolt."
Bowery also appeared in the video for the song Cruiser's Creek by English Band The Fall.
Contemporaries
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