It’s an entirely impossible feat to capture the extraordinarily outrageous life of Leigh Bowery, but a retrospective at Tate ...

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Leigh Bowery was larger than life in all senses: a self-styled performance artist whose exuberantly physical antics took place in nightclubs rather than art galleries; a monstrous egotist who ...

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At Leigh Bowery’s club, Taboo, Hi-NRG dance music throbbed from the speakers, polysexual identities were celebrated, and outrageous, colourful, sculptural fashion was on display in every direction.

Yet, Bowery was witty and charismatic, and his provocations were mostly tolerated. Tate situates him within “a long tradition of British eccentrics”, from Quentin Crisp to Lily Savage.