{"title":"Richard Torry","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"bat-girls-and-acid-boys-the-spontaneous-drawings-of-leigh-bowery-friends","title":"Bat Girls and Acid Boys The Spontaneous Drawings of Leigh Bowery \u0026 Friends","description":"\u003cp\u003e120 vivid exquisite corpse drawings made by the outrageous artist, performer, and designer \u003cstrong\u003eLeigh Bowery\u003c\/strong\u003e with friends and collaborators during the 1980s and 1990s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the wild years of the 1980s and early '90s, when central London was a clubbers' paradise, a circle of young, queer friends, including the celebrated Australian designer, performer, musician, and provocateur \u003cstrong\u003eLeigh Bowery\u003c\/strong\u003e and his Minty bandmates would get together at Richard Torry's Soho flat before hitting the town.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo pass the time, the troupe would sometimes make \"\u003cem\u003eexquisite corpses\u003c\/em\u003e,\" employing a technique popular with the Surrealists to create collaboratively-drawn compound images of often outrageous characters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 120 images collected here, assembled from the Richard Torry archive, showcase the acerbic wit, lysergic absurdity, and sometimes cruel gaze of the young friends, while presenting an exaggerated snapshot of the era's styles, fashions, and obsessions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Strange Attractor","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":51104679690571,"sku":"2239658","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/71jo7ILlNxL._SY522__d2322b3f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1736966745"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/richard-torry.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}