• 26 March 1961 Born in Sunshine, Australia, the son of Tom and Evelyn Bowery


• 1966-1978 Attends Sunshine Primary ft Junior Schools, Sunshine West High School and Melbourne High School


• 1978-1979 Studies fashion design at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology October


• 1980 Moves to London


• January 1981 Visits first London nightclub (Blitz)


• Spring 1981-1982 Works the night-shift at Burger King, The Strand


• 1982 Meets Trojan (ne Guy Barnes). Cerith Wyn Evans, Baillie Walsh, john Maybury and Richard Torry; with Trojan, moves into a council flat In London's East End: sells clothes at Kensington Market


• 1983 Performs at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, as part of Performing Clothes Week


• 1983-1984 Travels to New York and Japan to present his clothes in fashion shows organised by Susanne Bartsch


• 1984 Performs for the first time (with Trojan) at Hall Mary Club, London


• September 1984 Appears (with Trojan) in i-D magazine for the first time


• 1983/1984 Meets Boy George: meets dancer and choreographer Michael Clark at club night 'Circus'


• 1984-1986 Creates costumes for Michael Clark's Flipin 'eck Oh Thweet Mythery of Life, New Puritan, Our Coca
  Phoney H and No Fire Escape In Hell


• 31 January 1985 With club entrepreneur Tony Gordon, opens 'Taboo' In Leicester Square, London


• 1985 At 'Taboo', meets Nicola Bateman, who begins to work for Bowery on his designs. 'South of Watford', a 30 minute television documentary about Bowery is broadcast. Trojan moves in with filmmaker john Maybury; customizes Levi's jacket for a charity auction to the Victoria ft Albert Museum, London


• 1986 Angus Cook introduces Bowery to painter Lucian Freud at Taboo; "Taboo" closes down; Trojan dies of an accidental drug overdose


• September 1986 Performs at Riverside Studios In 'Hey Luciano' by The Falls Mark E, Smith


• February 1987 Returns to Australia for the first time as a member of Michael Clark's dance company in Because We Must, Melbourne Town Hall


• 1988 Meets master corset maker Pearl (ne Marc Erskine-Pullen); performs in the window of Parco department store Tokyo, wearing a different costume each day; performs In John Maybury's short film Read Only Memory performs (with Nicola Bateman and Pearl) at the Serpentine Gallery, London, and presents a week -long solo performance at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery; London Bowery is diagnosed H I V positive; meets photographer Fergus Greer and begins six-year collaboration on studio portraits


• 1989 Performs in Michael Clarks Heterospectlve at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London; Bowery again meets Lucian Freud


• 1990 Begins to model for Freud, appears as a prostitute In the video for Boy George's single 'Generations
  of Love', directed by Baillie Walsh; art directs the video for Massive Attack's single 'Unfinished Sympathy'


• 1992 Performs at the club night. 'Kinky Gerlinky', London, and In Michael Clark's "mmm" (or Michael Clark's Modern Masterpiece) King's Cross, London; appears as a dancer on BBC Television's 'Top of the Pops' (with Nicola Bateman); forms pop group The Quality Street Wrappers with Stella Stein and Sheila Tequila, which performs at the Iceni, The Fridge and then, as Raw Sewage, at the Cafe de Paris, London; assists Cerith Wyn Evans teaching at the Architectural Association, London


• 1992 Begins to collaborate on videos with New York artist and filmmaker Charles Atlas, a long-time collaborator with Michael Clark


• 1993 Raw Sewage performs at the Love Ball. Amsterdam; Bowery performs (with Nicola Bateman) in New York at the Wigstock Festival and at the club 'Jackie 60'; portrays 'Madame Garbo' in The Homosexual (or The Difficulty of Sexpressing Oneself) by Copi at Bagley's Studio, King's Cross, London, and The Tramway, Glasgow; appears at loshua Compston's 'Fete Worse Than Death', Hoxton Square, London (with Damien Hirst and Angus Fairhurst)


• 1993 Forms the band Minty (with Richard Torry, Nicola Bateman and Matthew Glammore), which performs at 'Smashing', London, and The Tunnel, Glasgow, including the infamous birth performance


• 1993-1994 Works with fashion designer Rifat Ozbek


• 1994 Performs with Richard Torry and Nicola Bateman at Fort Asperen, Holland


• 13 May 1994 Marries Nicola Bateman


• 1994 Minty performs at the Love Ball, Amsterdam, and at loshua Compston's second 'Fete Worse Than Death', Hoxton Square, London


• 24 November 1994 Minty plays the first night of a two-week residency at The Freedom Cafe, Wardour Street. London


• 25 November 1994 Minty residency is cancelled by Westminster Council


• 31 December 1994 Bowery dies in Middlesex Hospital, London; soon after, he is buried in Australia alongside
  his mother


• 1995 Memorial exhibition is held at the Fine Arts Society, New Bond Street. London, organized by Johnnie Shand Kydd


• 1997 Leigh Bowery The Life and Times of An Icon, a biography by Bowery's close friend Sue Tilley, is published by Hodder Stoughton, London


• 30 March 1998 A profile of Bowery by Hilton Als is published in The New Yorker


• July 1998 Leigh Bowery, an Illustrated Monograph, is published by Violette Editions, London


• 2000-2001 Charles Atlas films and directs a documentary about Bowery


• January 2002 'Taboo', a musical by Boy George about the 1980s London club scene, opens and includes Leigh Bowery amongst its characters


• Summer 2002 A touring exhibition of Fergus Greer's portrait photographs of Leigh Bowery opens in London

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