“Living his life as a work of art”
“ Leigh Bowery, peripheral in the notion of art practice by combining dandyism and body art, reconstructed his image while performing ...[he] uses the expression of the 'other' to create a form of cultural lip-syncing transvestism. ”
he was an australian performance artist, club promoter, actor, pop star, model & fashion designer based in london. Bowery is considered one of the more influential figures in the 1980s and 1990s London and New York art and fashion circles influencing a generation of artists and designers. His influence reached through the fashion, club and art worlds to impact, amongst others, Alexander McQueen, Lucian Freud, Vivienne Westwood, Boy George, Antony and the Johnsons, John Galliano, the Scissor Sisters, David LaChapelle, Lady Bunny plus numerous Nu-Rave bands and nightclubs in London and New York which arguably perpetuated his avant garde ideas.
these last three images are Leigh Bowery & Trojan
their life seemed so outrageous, their masking is incredible.
Nothing could shock Trojan's friends at Taboo. Nothing except his death. Trojan made a mask out of his alienation and wore it to nightclubs. He died in August of a drug overdose. With him died the new generation. Their lives measured in Pills, powder and flashbulbs...
reminds me of the film 'Party Monsters'
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