Dean Bowery, 1990. (Whose name comes from his idol, Leigh Bowery). The club kids burned bright and fast. They were the society misfits. The ‘freaks’. A sharp cocktail of young drag queens who built a community out of their craft, and a cast of constantly rotating nightlife characters with one com

Leigh Bowery, Session IV, Look 17 by Fergus Greer, 1991

Leigh Bowery was often a nude model for the painter Lucian Freud, I'm currently making sketches of some of Freud's paintings of him. That's how I heard of him, but I'm starting to disover that Bowery was totally an artist in his own right, and a pretty extraordinary public persona. I have a feeling I'd have heard of Bowery before long after I turned 18 anyway, since I think the majority of his legacy lies in the clubbing industry. Fashion designer, model, club promoter, actor, performance…

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