Leigh Bowery b. 1959

  • Artist
exhibited at
Take a Bowery: the art and (larger than) life of Leigh Bowery
Date
2003
Place
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW
Description

Examines the extraordinary and outrageous life of the late Australian-born, London-based performance artist. Working closely with Nicola Bateman Bowery, the widow and executor of the estate of Leigh Bowery, the exhibition examines Bowery’s extraordinary contribution to performance, fashion design and visual culture, including his documentation of Bowery’s landmark Anthony d’Offay Gallery performance. Also includes Lucian Freud’s major painting Leigh Under the Skylight. The first time the work, which extends almost three metres high and shows a full standing frontal pose, is seen in Australia.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW Library catalogue; http://www.mca.com.au/(06/05/04); Exhibition catalogue (9/11/04)

Exhibition Catalogue:
Take a Bowery: the art and (larger than) life of Leigh Bowery. Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003
ISBN 1875632905

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Retrospective, Mixed media, Performance, Photography, Fashion
exhibited at
Look at me: Leigh Bowery
Date
1999
Place
RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Description

Funding 1999 Woolmark Fashion Festival, Wood Marsh Architecture, Metro Nightclub, RMIT Gallery. A multi-media snapshot of fashion maverick Leigh Bowery, traversing contemporary fashion, art and music.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
RMIT Gallery program

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Retrospective, Mixed media, Photography, Fashion