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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Lucian Freud
- Take a Bowery
- Leigh Bowery
- Leigh Bowery
- Leigh Bowery Looks
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Film & TV
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.
Known for
- Queerama — (archive footage)2017
- The British Guide to Showing Off — Self (archive footage)2011
- Kinky Gerlinky — Self2003
- The Legend of Leigh Bowery — Self (archive footage)2002
- Mrs. Peanut Visits New York1999
- What's Your Reaction to the Show?1998
- Read Only Memory1998
- Wigstock: The Movie — Self1995
- The Ghosts of Oxford Street — King George1991
- Because We Must1989
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 70
- Total plays
- 4,924
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Bradley
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Melbourne
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- artist
- Educated at
- RMIT University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- art
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- manner of death
- natural causes
- date of death
- 1994-12-31
- date of birth
- 1961-03-26
- has works in the collection
- National Gallery of Victoria
- Commons category
- Leigh Bowery
- start of work period
- 1980-00-00
- medical condition
- HIV/AIDS
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