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	The Zeugma: Interviews: Leigh Bowery
		Bowery explained his move away from clubland: "Michael liked the idea of how some movements and shapes looked on an untrained body, I didn't have a classical dance background, and I was very open and eager.
		Bowery discussed his work with the professional ingenuousness of those artists who prefer more attention be paid to the artwork than the reasons for its making.
		Put Bowery's imagery together with the facts of his immense physique, sexuality and huge sexual appetite (he admitted before his death that his biggest regret was "having unsafe sex with 1000 men"), and his work becomes a demonstrative monologue on the conflict between how our bodies are and how we believe them to be.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~karlpeter/zeugma/inters/bowery.htm (2186 words)

	leighexpo
		Bowery is the subject of a number of Freud’s paintings, as well as a series of etchings, all three of which are included in the MCA’s exhibition.
		Born in the Melbourne suburb of Sunshine in 1961 Bowery was drawn to London’s punk scene and nightlife in the early 1980s, quickly established a reputation within London’s club-land due to the spectacular and innovative costumes he created and the serial identities he presented.
		Join Leigh Bowery’s widow and long-time collaborator, Nicola Bateman Bowery, and exhibition curator, Gary Carsley, as they lead a tour of the exhibition, sharing their personal insights into the outrageous life of Leigh Bowery and assess his important contribution to performance, fashion and visual culture.
	www.geocities.com /clubkidsusa/leighexpo.html (483 words)

	Leigh Bowery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leigh Bowery (March 26, 1961, in Sunshine, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia – December 31, 1994, in London, United Kingdom) was a performance artist, club creature, and clothing designer.
		Leigh went on to appear as "Madame Garbo" in "The Homosexual (or the difficulty of sexpressing oneself)" by Copi at Bagleys Warehouse in London's King's Cross.
		Bowery was painted in a series of nude portraits by Lucian Freud, and travelled internationally to the opening events of his exhibitions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leigh_Bowery (1612 words)

	The Legend Of Leigh Bowery \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source
		When he was alive, radical fashion designer Leigh Bowery liked to indulge in what he called "experimental behavior," which manifested as lies, pranks, and exhibitionism, to a degree that even his closest friends sometimes avoided him.
		After Bowery died of AIDS in 1994, several of his admirers mounted exhibits of his clothing and sketches, but they found that without the man himself animating the ideas, they didn't mean as much.
		And he covers Bowery's dabbling in various media, from flirting with pop-music stardom to marrying his assistant as a form of private performance art.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/17375 (406 words)

	dOc DVD Review: The Legend of Leigh Bowery (2002)
		Bowery was born in Australia into an extremely conservative family, and was always close to his mother, who taught him how to sew, a skill that would prove invaluable in his later life.
		Bowery's fashion are difficult to describe, and the jacket of the DVD does little to convey the extreme lengths to which he was willing to go to make a splash.
		Bowery later gained some measure of respectability with London's establishment art scene, by sitting for portraits with painter Lucian Freud and performing at the Anthony d'Offay art gallery, and these are illustrated with documentary footage and paintings.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=6244 (1621 words)

	DVD Review: The Legend of Leigh Bowery
		Bowery was homosexual from the start and apparently told his mother, when he was in secondary school, that his school uniform was his best asset for getting sex.
		Leigh Bowery as a child, Photograph courtesy of The Estate of Leigh Bowery and Palm Pictures/Arthouse Films.
		Bowery was able to take his static art onto the performing stage with his band “Minty” who conducted performances that will never be seen again (of course, their are many who feel that is best for the performing arts).
	dvd.monstersandcritics.com /reviews/printer_1656.php (991 words)

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		Leigh Bowery was the subject of a talk at Tate Britain, chaired by Michael Bracewell, and titled 'Big Time'.
		Leigh Bowery was the club entrepreneur and body artist who died of AIDS in 1996.
		During the part of the play when Leigh Bowery comes into the audience to interact, he said “I’m not really an actor, but then neither is Madonna.” I haven’t seen Boy George in another role, but he certainly performed well in this role.
	www.lycos.com /info/leigh-bowery.html (344 words)

	Leigh Bowery, ideal husband \| Review \| The Observer
		Among the images, there is Leigh with a giant tulle pom-pom where his head should be and a 'pregnant' bulge; Leigh sporting a pubic wig, Leigh staggering under the weight of a giant velvet bushel.
		At one party, Mick Jagger, thinking Bowery was dancing too close to him, said: 'Fuck off, freak!' Leigh instantly replied: 'Fuck off, fossil!' Over the years, Leigh became infamous for dressing (and undressing) to chill, with 'looks' such as a giant turd emerging from a toilet seat, and for performing live enemas onstage.
		As Leigh would put it: "Let's get the sex over with, and then we can be friends."' When Leigh asked her to marry him, Nicola was 'flattered, amused and suspicious'.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,,758966,00.html (1162 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Bowery, Leigh
		Bowery was born on March 26, 1961 in the Melbourne suburb of Sunshine.
		Leigh Bowery constantly reinvented himself by distorting his body shape and changing the proportions of his body.
		Bowery's performances became increasingly extreme as they played with notions of sexuality and aspects of sadism and masochism.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/bowery_l.html (767 words)

	Leigh Bowery at Perry Rubenstein Art in America - Find Articles
		The Australian artist Leigh Bowery (1961-1994) arrived on the London club scene in 1980 and gained prominence as a performer, costume designer, model for Lucian Freud and, for the last year of his shod, out life, lead singer of the band Minty.
		Both shots were taken shortly after Bowery's one-week exhibition at Anthony D'Offay Gallery in London, a series of solitary costumed tableaus starring Bowery in a succession of "looks," with a chaise longue as his principal prop.
		Bowery provides his masked face with cartoon eyes and a red-rimmed hole of a mouth like that of a sex doll.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_6_93/ai_n13804281 (555 words)

	New York Cool - Amanda Lepore and Boy George at The Legend of Leigh Bowery Party at Plaid
		In watching this film, I was most taken by Leigh Bowery’s fascination with the human contortion of shape, form and line, using his somewhat rotund body as a gelatinous fabric.
		Leigh even mentioned in an interview about his designs that flesh was his favorite material to work with.
		The Legend of Leigh Bowery is a work of art in itself as a film, which wonderfully captures the essence of Leigh Bowery’s whimsically shocking vision by illustrating Leigh’s distaste for symmetry along with his passion for the deconstruction of what is perceived as “normal”.
	www.newyorkcool.com /archives/April2004/nightlife.html (867 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Legend of Leigh Bowery: DVD: Charles Atlas,Boy George,Michael Clark,Sophie Fiennes,Damien Hirst,Leigh ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Leigh Bowery was a genre-crossing conceptual entertainer who clearly has influenced club kids, Marilyn Manson, and many others.
		Leigh was operating in a time before and a country outside of political correctness.
		Leigh Bowery is a (sub?)cultural icon and should be honored forever.
	www.amazon.ca /Legend-Leigh-Bowery-Charles-Atlas/dp/B0004Z31QQ (806 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : The Legend of Leigh Bowery : Plot
		Bowery later expanded on his philosophy and approach with his own nightclub, Taboo, and a musical group, Minty.
		Bowery died of AIDS-related illnesses in 1994, but this documentary -- which features interviews with his friends, family and colleagues, including Boy George, who has since staged a musical based in part on Bowery's life -- examines his life and times, as well as the lasting impact of his work.
		The Legend of Leigh Bowery received its world premiere in the spring of 2002 at the It's All True Documentary Film Festival on Sao Paulo, Brazil.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/245746/plot.jhtml (176 words)

	BBC - BBC Four Storyville - The Legend of Leigh Bowery
		Damien Hirst and Boy George are among the contributors to this exploration of the life of outrageous Australian fashion designer Leigh Bowery, from the early 80s to his untimely demise in 1994.
		Leigh Bowery is one of the great icons of our time.
		The fact that Leigh Bowery began his dressing-up life in the Salvation Army as a youngster should not be forgotten.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/documentaries/storyville/leigh-bowery.shtml (203 words)

	Gaywatch: "The Legend of Leigh Bowery" -- Queer Lesbian Gay Arts & Entertainment -- Gay.com
		Whether you are already a fan of the late Leigh Bowery or know nothing about him, you'll find "The Legend of Leigh Bowery" truly absorbing.
		Bowery came from humble beginnings in Sunshine, Australia, a small town outside Melbourne.
		Bowery's biographer Sue Tilley shares what I viewed as the most shocking revelation of the entire film: When he first moved to London, Bowery worked at Burger King.
	www.gay.com /entertainment/news/?sernum=570 (427 words)

	Barbelith Underground > Art, Fashion & Design > Leigh Bowery
		Leigh Bowery (March 26, 1961, in Sunshine, a suburb of Melbourne — December 31, 1994, in London) was an extraordinary homosexual performance artist and designer of outfits that might loosely be called clothes.
		I remember reading that Freud was interested in painting Leigh Bowery precisely because, unlike his usual selection of models from whom he stripped away layers of personality, Bowery was someone used to being looked at, who therefore had a dynamic that was a challenge to the artist.
		I have to say, Spaced doesn't ruin Bowery for me. Part of space slightly soiled Guesthouse Paradiso, but no, Bowery resists that parody- and I got the feeling that Vulva was parody born of respect.
	www.barbelith.com /topic/24351 (890 words)

	Leigh Bowery Looks
		This book is the definitive and indispensible guide to the unique looks designed and, in these photographs, worn by Leigh Bowery.
		One of Britain's most heroically ambitious yet underappreciated designers and performance artists, Bowery remains an inspiration to many contemporary fashion designers, though few are willing to admit it.
		In Leigh Bowery Looks you can see why: it contains 300 previously unpublished photographs of Bowery, an extraordinary body of work that was the outcome of his collaboration with British photographer Fergus Greer between 1988 and 1994, the year of Bowery's death.
	www.artbook.com /1900828197.html (159 words)

	BBC - BBC Four Documentaries - Leigh Bowery
		Bowery boasted as many piercings as sequins, and what started as an instinct to show off soon became an occupation.
		At seven feet tall, Leigh Bowery was a walking, talking objet d'art.
		He was a great proponent of disguise, yet it was ultimately Lucian Freud's unmasking of this masked reveler that ensured his lasting credibility.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/documentaries/storyville/leigh-bowery-profile.shtml (440 words)

	Legend of Leigh Bowery, The (2003): Reviews
		Atlas allows Bowery's genius to retain, in the words of one admirer, "a big bundle of contradictions," not unlike his shocking designs themselves.
		You may find the film as outrageous as it is outlandish, and Bowery would have taken that as a compliment.
		It takes almost an hour for The Legend of Leigh Bowery to make a case for Bowery's sort of genius, and in the last third, the movie gives a real sense of what made him him.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/legendofleighbowery (365 words)

	do the things: pure craft: the legend of leigh bowery
		for all you comcast viewers, the legend of leigh bowery is currently a freebie on the "on demand" channel.
		and the book leigh bowery looks is due out in just a few days.
		leigh learned to knit at his mum's knee -- like so many of you out there did, and like so many of you are teaching your children.
	www.notsoswift.com /knitting/archives/001740.html (128 words)

	Amazon.com: Leigh Bowery Looks: Books: Leigh Bowery,Fergus Greer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Bowery remains an inspiration to many contemporary fashion designers, though few are willing to admit it.
		Leigh Bowery Looks contains 300 photographs of Bowery--an extraordinary body of work that was the outcome of his collaboration with British photographer Fergus Greer between 1988 and 1994, the year of Bowery's death.
		Here the range of Bowery's many looks is most evident, as are the ways in which he has influenced the world of fashion today.
	www.amazon.com /Leigh-Bowery-Looks/dp/1900828278 (1137 words)

	The Legend of Leigh Bowery (2002): Boy George, Nicola Bowery, Damien Hirst, Michael Clark - PopMatters Film Review
		Growing up in a small Australian town, Leigh Bowery fell under the stifling influence of two overwhelming conservative moral codes: the religious philosophy of the Salvation Army and quasi-barbaric sodomy laws that rendered homosexuality a jailable offense.
		By the time he died of AIDS-related meningitis in 1994, Bowery was one of the most celebrated "human spectacles" in the underground art community, a fashionista force with the carnival community of junk culture.
		At times, the film shows that Bowery's work could be just plain dumb or offensive, as when he performs an onstage birth or drinks fruit juice "piss." But Bowery was never boring; he made people feel something.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/l/legend-of-leigh-bowery.shtml (1113 words)

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		Click for a rare selection of Leigh Bowery costumes as they now exist in 'archive', in the care of custodian Nicola Bateman Bowery.
		Minty was formed in 1993 by Leigh Bowery and Richard Torry.
		In the early 1990s Bowery had been involved in two musical outfits, The Quality Street Wrappers and Raw Sewage (both essentially the same band), but Minty was a much more serious attempt to be taken seriously.
	www.lycos.com /info/leigh-bowery--miscellaneous.html (370 words)

	Premiere Magazine - The Legend of Leigh Bowery
		But while Alig and Aussie native-turned-London celebutante Leigh Bowery may have been kindred spirits (it was Alig who hosted Bowery's New York debut), this documentary manages to avoid all that icky Drano-to-the-veino business.
		There can be no question that Bowery was a consummate performance artist, but newcomers and those more skeptical about Bowery's antics (in a late-career act, he designed a costume that concealed his naked wife inside and simulated giving birth to her on stage) are unlikely to be so easily swayed.
		At one point, director Charles Atlas gets Bowery's father to admit, "I think he was probably a little bit more complex than we knew." It's a profound understatement that this spastic, short little movie only partly corrects.
	www.premiere.com /moviereviews/1345/the-legend-of-leigh-bowery.html (319 words)

	:: SHOWstudio ::
		An essay by one of Leigh's contemporaries, Donald Urquhart -whose own artistic output and creativity mirrors the breadth of Bowery's output, as well as intertwining creatively with it.
		View Donald Urquhart's exquisite and humorous pen and ink imagery of Leigh Bowery, drag culture and the fashion from his unique point of view.
		Leigh Bowery dedicated his life to the exploration of self-invention, and he used his own body as his canvas.
	www.showstudio.com /projects/index.php/178 (282 words)

	village voice > film > The Legend of Leigh Bowery by Ed Halter
		Taken from a late-'80s chat show, this moment is just one of the eye-popping artifacts in Charles Atlas's remarkable moving-picture-book tribute to Bowery, the late fashiondesigner-cum-performer who pushed the New Romantic penchant for lunatic masquerade into new heights of artistic ambition.
		Bowery's style transcends the snarky clubland clobber of contemporaries like Boy George (who plays him in Taboo and is interviewed in Legend).
		Himself a Bowery collaborator, Atlas deftly adapts the signature free-form chroma-key of his dance videos to the strictures of the biodoc.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0348/halter.php (299 words)

	kultureflash
		Leigh Bowery, a controversial performance artist and also one of Lucien Freud's muses was equally at home in the art world, the fashion industry and underground clubs.
		Bowery was a diva, designer and a performer extraordinaire all of which is stunningly captured in Leigh Bowery Looks.
		Bowery is England's greatest performance artist and has inspired countless numbers of people - whether in art, fashion or music.
	www.kultureflash.net /archive/6/default.htm (2868 words)

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