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Fabulous & Impossible: The Cult of Leigh Bowery

Portrait of Leigh, 2021, Mixed media on watercolour paper. Based on photography by Fergus Greer

The Bowery gallery presents ‘Fabulous & Impossible – The Cult of Leigh Bowery’, an exhibition featuring the visual art of Sydney-based queer artist and multidisciplinary pistol-whip Tom Christophersen.

Featuring a collection of new and pre-existing works, Christophersen’s beautifully camp and subtly strange portraiture and video work celebrates the impact of queer visionaries, especially Bowery, on his contemporary arts practice.

Parallels of persona and character, performance art and the ultimate subversion of popular culture through a queer lens echo through this glamorous and twisted body of mixed media works on paper, incorporating both drawing and painting.

Fabulous & Impossible – The Cult of Leigh Bowery’ is for lovers of meticulously made things which glory in the uncomfortable and underground, the shock of the spectacle, and the delicious way the queer community creates art on their own terms from their own lived experiences.

Opens January 28th 2022.

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‘Thanatophobia’ opens November 28th @ The Stockroom Gallery

My debut solo exhibition, ‘Thanatophobia’ opens Thursday November 28th at the The Stockroom Gallery, Melbourne from 6pm – 8pm and runs til December 8th.

‘Mitcham Shops Are Burning Down’, 2019 (Detail)

For sales enquiries and catalogue access please contact The Stockroom Gallery at: info@thestockroom.com.au

Click here to access a digital exhibition flyer.

Click here to RSVP to the ‘Thanatophobia’ Facebook Event.

CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE WORKS AND READ THE CATALOGUE ESSAY

‘Thanatophobia’, 2019, Film Still

To experience Thanatophobia is to be overwhelmed by a morbid dread of dying. Sydney-based Queer portraiture and performance artist Tom Christophersen presents his debut solo exhibition, and first exhibition in Melbourne, exploring the artist’s long-running anxieties pertaining to death.

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