(25 Feb 2025)
UK TATE LEIGH BOWERY
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1. Wide pan of Leigh Bowery exhibition hall inside the Tate Modern gallery in London
2. Mid tilt of photograph of Leigh Bowery by Fergus Greer, Session I, Look 2, 1988
3. Various of Bowery’s green jacket with sequins worn at Andrew Logan’s infamous Alternative Miss World pageant and full look created for the ‘Love Ball’ AIDS benefit in 1989
4. Various of outfits hand-crafted by Leigh Bowery with the help of collaborator Nicola Rainbird, who later became Leigh Bowery’s wife, and corsetier Mr. Pearl
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicola Rainbird, artist and widow to Leigh Bowery:
"I’m just over the moon. I really am. It’s just everything that Lee would have wanted. Obviously, I’ve been looking after the Leigh Bowery estate for many, many years, so it’s great to see every single costume have a place and all the archival material being seen by everybody."
5. Various of the ruined clothes section of the Leigh Bowery exhibition, a homage to when Leigh Bowery was asked by Parco, a department store in Tokyo, Japan, to do an exhibition. He threw his clothes off a balcony window, and they were photographed as they were landing on the floor, which is recreated in this exhibit with photographs of individual items and objects such as Bowery’s costumes and accessories scattered
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicola Rainbird, artist and widow to Leigh Bowery:
"Lee was a very mischievous person and he was always performing for me all the time. He would kind of come into the room and pose in front of me. And so, he was just it was just really, really funny. He was very outrageous. So, he came back with lots of naughty things all the time and tried to get people into trouble. He was a bit of a liar. He just like to cause mischief."
7. Various of mood board of items belonging to Bowery in his East London flat, including Photographs of Pan Hogg and Michael Clark by Alex Gerry (1986), Various of Boy George and Steve Strange by Taboo (1986) and photographs by Peter Paul Hartnett and Alex Gerry. The mood board also includes items such as beer cans and cigarettes.
8. Wide of costumes designed by Leigh Bowery and Nicola Rainbird
9. Various of a mask with jacket and cape/skirt for The Love Ball designed by Bowery and Rainbird in 1989
10. Various of Fiontán Moran, curator at Tate Modern gallery observing costumes designed by Leigh Bowery and Nicola Rainbird
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Fiontán Moran, curator at Tate Modern:
"Right now, we’re in the opening room of the exhibition, which is based around the home and specifically Leigh’s home and private house in East London. And that had this kind of crazy Star Trek wallpaper, paintings by his best friend Trojan, kind of lots of intentionally kind of kitsch and tacky furniture because he was really interested in forms of bad taste and clashing elements. And so, we wanted to open the exhibition by bringing people into the world of Leigh Bowery and friends."
12. Wide of exhibition room inspired by Leigh Bowery’s home
13. Wide pan showing exhibit hall and a 1983 photograph of Leigh Bowery in Fur Coat, Farrell House, Whitechapel, London, 1983 by David Gwinnutt
15. Mid tilt up of Bowery’s 1983-1984 pink gingham shirt with frills
16. Various of a painting made with acrylic paint on wood with metal and toilet roll of Leigh Bowery in the bath by Trojan (Gary Barnes), dated 1985-1986
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Tabish Khan, art critic:
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