
I am an artist exploring living with grief, loss and trauma.
take me with your AIDS gun
pierce me and deflate me
A LOVE DIVINE
Part of the queer trauma comedy SHAMES: looking never hurt, this popartfilm was commissioned for Supernormal festival 2022 by QUEEF Experimental and is part of the British Music Collection thanks to the support of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group with Sound and Music.
https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/article/lgbtq-composers-open-call-leon-clowes
Recently my artworks have been in Frieze Art Fair, Queer Contemporaries, Café Oto, Disability Arts Online, Queer Art Projects, Margate Pride, and at Snape Maltings.
I didn’t know that that was what people did
SECRETS: The Last Five Days of Sandra
Produced by Britten Pears Arts at a Snape residency, supported by PRS Foundation. The SECRETS performance installation was a collaboration with Andrea Edwards, Kelly O'Brien and Gerry McNee (Itchy Ear).
I’m an Open School East Associate Artist and a PhD practice researcher at London College of Music.
secrets keep us SICK
‘Nan Kids’ toured Deptford X, SPILL and Wandsworth arts festivals, was featured on BBC1 News, and a BBC Sounds podcast was made.

Photographs of leon above, and Nan Kids Alicia, leon and Adéle below, by Ilmé Vyšniauskaité https://www.instagram.com/ilmevysnia/
I'm part of the Addiction Recovery Arts Network.









still on this journey
from the Margate Pride x Crate Christmas 2022 residency
music and film made as part of an Arts Council England-funded Space and Time residency

2023-24
Drake Music Scotland/PRS Foundation/NMC Recordings Autumn/Spring Cardiff concert and CD release of commission for pianist Siwan Rhys
Woodbridge Ambient Festival 23-25 Sep Something of a Queer Nature installation
Open School East 22-25 June No Turning Back in group Associate Artist exhibition
WORM Rotterdam 12-25 June Alternative & chosen families group exhibition
Buy the download EP
SHAMES: looking never hurt
three teenage trauma tracks written in the time of the AIDS crisis