Leon Clowes
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leon clowes is a white working-class queer musician-composer and multidisciplinary artist who lives well with mental health issues and in maintaining recovery from addictions and abuse.
Since 2020, leon’s artworks have featured in/been commissioned by SPILL and Deptford X arts festivals, Frieze Art Fair, Cafe Oto, WORM Rotterdam, Queer Art Projects, Disability Arts Online, Margate Pride, Queer Contemporaries, Datscha Radio Berlin and Britten Pears Arts/Snape Maltings.
A 2022-23 Associate Artist of Open School East, leon is a scholarship-supported PhD student at London College of Music until Spring 2025 conducting research into self-compassionate autoethnographic trauma-inspired artworks.
Since re-emerging as a practitioner, initially as a cathartic response towards the lost three decades due to difficult life circumstances, increasingly leon’s focus is a return to the artform that has ‘been the centre of my life and the passion of my soul: music and sound’. Anni, Gini, Joni is leon’s first piano commission, and he said it represents ‘a turning point in my career and life’.
leon is currently developing multi-form pieces in classical, pop, and ambient forms collaborating with acoustic and electronic musicians and performing artists.
leon clowes is a white working-class queer musician-composer and multidisciplinary artist who lives well with mental health issues and in maintaining recovery from addictions and abuse.
Since 2020, leon’s artworks have featured in/been commissioned by SPILL and Deptford X arts festivals, Frieze Art Fair, Cafe Oto, WORM Rotterdam, Queer Art Projects, Disability Arts Online, Margate Pride, Queer Contemporaries, Datscha Radio Berlin and Britten Pears Arts/Snape Maltings.
A 2022-23 Associate Artist of Open School East, leon is a scholarship-supported PhD student at London College of Music until Spring 2025 conducting research into self-compassionate autoethnographic trauma-inspired artworks.
Since re-emerging as a practitioner, initially as a cathartic response towards the lost three decades due to difficult life circumstances, increasingly leon’s focus is a return to the artform that has ‘been the centre of my life and the passion of my soul: music and sound’. Anni, Gini, Joni is leon’s first piano commission, and he said it represents ‘a turning point in my career and life’.
leon is currently developing multi-form pieces in classical, pop, and ambient forms collaborating with acoustic and electronic musicians and performing artists.
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