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Leigh Bowery

Leigh Bowery

Born: 1961-03-26 • Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Leigh Bowery was an Australian performance artist, club promoter, and fashion designer. Bowery was known for his flamboyant and outlandish costumes and makeup as well as his performances. Based in London for much of his adult life, he was a significant model and muse for the English painter Lucian Freud.

Filmography
Queerama poster
Queerama
2017 • (archive footage)
The British Guide to Showing Off poster
The British Guide to Showing Off
2011 • Self (archive footage)
Kinky Gerlinky poster
Kinky Gerlinky
2003 • Self
The Legend of Leigh Bowery poster
The Legend of Leigh Bowery
2002 • Self (archive footage)
Mrs. Peanut Visits New York poster
Mrs. Peanut Visits New York
1999
What's Your Reaction to the Show? poster
What's Your Reaction to the Show?
1998
Read Only Memory poster
Read Only Memory
1998
Wigstock: The Movie poster
Wigstock: The Movie
1995 • Self
The Ghosts of Oxford Street poster
The Ghosts of Oxford Street
1991 • King George
Because We Must poster
Because We Must
1989
No Image
Mirror
1988
Degrees of Blindness poster
Degrees of Blindness
1988
Hail the New Puritan poster
Hail the New Puritan
1986
Mirror poster
Mirror
— • Self