This collection of over 100 previously unseen collaborative
drawings—produced by Bowery and many significant players from London's
Clubland—is tantalisingly NSFW and available to order directly from
Strange Attractor Press now... with copies available to buy from Tate during the
exhibiton, and appearing through all good book shops shortly.
Bat Girls And Acid Boys: The Spontaneous Drawings of Leigh Bowery
and Friends
The Spontaneous Drawings of Leigh Bowery and Friends
Edited by Richard Torry & Jonny Trunk
£14.99
224 pp. | 150 x 210 mm
120 BW Illustrations
Available March 2025.
Outrageous exquisite corpses from the heart of London's clubland.
The wild years of the 1980s and early 1990s, when central London was a
clubbers' paradise... a circle of young, queer friends, including the
celebrated Australian designer, performer, musician, and provocateur Leigh
Bowery and his Minty bandmates, would get together at Richard Torry's Soho
flat before hitting the town.
To pass the time, the troupe would sometimes make “exquisite
corpses”, employing a technique popular with the Surrealists to create
compound images of often outrageous characters.
Collected here for the first time are over 100 of their wild creations,
acerbic observations and beautiful monsters.
