Glitz, Glam, and Chaos: Tate Modern celebrates the outrageous legacy of Leigh Bowery

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Tate Modern’s latest exhibition is celebrating the outrageous genius of Leigh Bowery - artist, fashion designer, clubland icon and muse to Lucian Freud.

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00:00I'm just over the moon. I really am. It's just everything that Lee would have wanted.

00:21Obviously, I've been looking after the Lee Barry estate for many, many years, so it's

00:24great to see every single costume have a place and all the archival material being seen by

00:29everybody. Lee was a very mischievous person and he was always performing. It was just

00:36really, really funny. He was very outrageous. He came out with lots of naughty things all

00:41the time.

01:00Lee was someone who came to the UK from Australia. He worked in Burger King briefly. He had very

01:07little money throughout his life and it was, towards the end of his life, kind of a frustration,

01:13but he still managed to create this whole world around him. I think, if anything, that

01:18constant desire to create, to collaborate with friends, I find very inspiring myself

01:24and I hope our visitors feel that too.

01:29I'm just over the moon. I really am. It's just everything that Lee would have wanted.

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