Bat Girls & Acid Boys:
The Spontaneous
Drawings of Leigh Bowery and Friends
Richard Torry & Jonny Trunk
224pp / 150mm x 210 mm
20 black & white illustrations
Paperback
£14.99
What you will see is an explosion of silliness and daftness, all explored in a brilliantly avant-garde and inspiring fashion – as was the way of the Torry / Bowery scene. You can also hear laughter and joy emanating through the drawings, and we all need more of that – all the time.
- from the introduction by Jonny Trunk
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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.
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About the author
Richard Torry is a musician, artist and former member of the band Minty, with Leigh Bowery.
