Anthony D'Offay Gallery

11 - 15 October 1988

"(...) There was a simple set, just Leigh and a chaise-longue. In the gallery
he had the sound of traffic playing and each day a different smell was wafted
around, one day banana the next marshmallows. Every day Leigh wore another one
of his looks. He would lie on the chaise-longue and then maybe prwol arond or
do some high kicks or keep a pose for ten minutes depending on waht sort of
mood he was in.(...)"

"(...)The show was a great success. Plenty of people stayed the full two
hours and returned every day. It was teh first time that many of the club people
had been into an art gallery and it showed them what exciting places they can
be. Cerith Wyn Evans filmed every performance(...)"

- extracts from the book "Lifes And Times Of An Icon" by Sue
Tilley, pages 217-218

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