Franko B on Leigh Bowery: “He’d come on stage and the queens would freak out and move away. He tackled the ideals upheld in gay culture in the 1980s of the beautiful body to try and cope with the fear of AIDS”. See more here:
An exhibition honouring Leigh’s presence was recently held at, the last remaining building of the old Middlesex Hospital, which hosted the first UK AIDS ward, and was famously opened by a gloveless Princess Diana. It was also here that Leigh passed away on New Year’s Eve 1994 aged 33. The moving installation, curated Hannah Watson of Fitzrovia gallery T.J. Boulting, performed a sort of coming out about his illness, set against the differences and similarities between that pandemic and this one.
Once Leigh got a new idea for a look, he’d either exaggerate it, do the opposite, or parody it. He’d told his parents he wanted to be a comedian, and cringe comedy was a keynote in his performances, along with affronting satire. Conforming to taste conventions was not only meaningless and trite for Leigh, it was also repressive. Many recall his presence as frightening. XL and full of surprises, he towered over you, threw you around, and stopped short of nothing to get attention.
Possibly the only person to have united traditional crewelwork textiles with homemade merkins in one wardrobe, his looks were much too full on for mainstream fashion. Having learned to sew from his mother, he gathered tips from designer friends like
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