• Leigh Bowery! review – a colossal display of shapeshifting outrageousness and originality

    Leigh Bowery! review – a colossal display of shapeshifting outrageousness and originality
    Tate Modern, LondonThe late Australian performance artist’s huge retrospective is packed with outlandish costumes, stylish photographs, emotive writing and evocative video footage, but what is most striking is his singular artistic visionLife was a guise to the performance artist Leigh Bowery (1961-94). His looks were so outlandish, his costumes so teemingly various, they jam every inch of this huge retrospective. He is a gilded boy-god, a Christmas pudding on legs, a prosthetised Venus of

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