Fergus Greer - Leigh Bowery, Session II, Look 10, 1989, 2025

Publisher: Tate
Year: 2025
Format: Digital pigment print on Somerset Satin Infinity 330 gsm paper
Edition: Limited Edition Of 100 Copies - Signed & Numbered On The Front By Fergus Greer
Condition: New
Size: 63.5 x 50.8cm

Fergus Greer, Leigh Bowery, Session II, Look 10, 1989, 2025, a limited edition artwork published to coincide with the exhibition Leigh Bowery! at Tate Modern, 27 February – 31 August 2025.

Greer felt an immediate affinity with Leigh Bowery when he met him after watching his performance at Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, in 1988. Shortly after, Greer and Bowery began an artistic collaboration which lasted six productive years, until Bowery’s untimely death in 1994. Bowery visited Greer’s studio when he had a new look to be photographed. The resulting images are a lasting monument to Bowery’s creations. ‘Leigh used to rip up and re-make his costumes,’ Greer explains, ‘so photography was really key to preserving his looks.’ Leigh Bowery, Session II, Look 10, 1989, is one such photograph, taken on a large format camera and part of an extraordinary body of work that was the outcome of their collaboration. ‘Leigh’s legacy, in part, lies in our collaboration, and in the record we produced together of his art. I hope our work captures something of the creative genius of this ebullient, much loved, artist and friend’ says Greer.