{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6575c3b634c2dd001167cc72/6773a907024ebc889d49a22b?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Sue Tilley on Leigh Bowery ","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6575c3b634c2dd001167cc72/1735678710137-0c8dcd10-7591-4b09-83c7-1c68afff1e04.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Sue Tilley was a confidante and collaborator of Leigh Bowery, an avant-garde performance artist, designer, and nightlife icon known for his flamboyant and provocative costumes that challenged traditional notions of art, fashion, and identity.</p><p><br></p><p>Leigh introduced her to artist Lucian Freud who had painted Leigh. And it was Freud's iconic painting <em>Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, which immortalised Sue, making </em>headlines in 2008 when it was sold at auction for $33.6 million, setting a record at the time for the most expensive work by a living artist.</p><p><br></p><p>This podcast is about Sue's life, her relationship to Leigh Bowery who died 30 years ago on New Year's Eve 1994.</p><p><br></p><p>To watch - go here!</p><p>Sue Tilley; Leigh Bowery, Art, friendship, Lucian Freud &amp; wild times of the 1980s London club scene</p><p>https://youtu.be/nFw0Vy8F83Q</p>","author_name":"Steve Blame"}