NEW AIDS QUILT: WAD25
For World AIDS Day 2025 I undertook an eight‑week challenge to create eight new AIDS panels, each a piece of a single 12 ft by 12 ft display‑ready quilt intended to join the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt. The panels commemorated individuals featured in my podcast "AIDS: The Lost Voices" individual names, dates and symbols chosen to reflect lives, activism and the quieter moments lost to the epidemic.
AIDS: THE LOST VOICES
As an artist, performer, model, TV personality, club promoter, fashion designer, and musician, Leigh Bowery refused to be confined by conventional boundaries. Emerging from the vibrant nightlife of 1980s London, Bowery crafted a daring and provocative presence that extended from underground clubs to galleries, theatres, and the street.