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Sue Tilley & Charlie Porter: On Leigh Bowery

Sue Tilley & Charlie Porter: On Leigh Bowery

Update: 2025-08-20
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From his arrival in London in 1981 – clutching a suitcase and sewing machine – to his death from AIDS on New Year’s Eve 1994, Leigh Bowery – the man described by Boy George as ‘modern art on legs’ – led an extraordinary life; a life chronicled in the equally extraordinary biography by his closest friend and confidante Sue Tilley, reissued by Thames and Hudson this February.


Tilley was at the shop to discuss Bowery’s life and legacy with Charlie Porter, author of What Artists Wear, and whose debut novel Nova Scotia House was published by Particular Books in March.


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Sue Tilley & Charlie Porter: On Leigh Bowery

Sue Tilley & Charlie Porter: On Leigh Bowery

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