Sebastian Horsley
Sebastian Horsley: where to start? Soho dandy, below-average artist, sex columnist, and Comme des Garçons model. He's swum with sharks, slept with a thousand prostitutes, been addicted to crack, been addicted to smack, invented a shirt at Turnbull & Asser, won a million and lost a million, and, most famously, crucified himself in the Philippines while Sarah Lucas filmed it.
In short, he's a fabulously dressed nutcase who spouts pithy nonsense and produces (by his own admission) pretty rubbish paintings. But for Horsley, life is the performance by which he is judged. And even if he hasn't been too successful at it, at least his autobiography Dandy in the Underworld is a triumph, with the shallow brilliance of Bolan, Bowie, Wilde, and Crisp all polished into one.
Whilst people like William Beckford and Horace Walpole had to build their follies, Sebastian has established himself as his own. Hero, heroine, and heroin addict: Horsley is all things to all people.
Read Tom's interview with Sebastian Horsley.
Sebastian Horsley died on 17th June 2010.
In short, he's a fabulously dressed nutcase who spouts pithy nonsense and produces (by his own admission) pretty rubbish paintings. But for Horsley, life is the performance by which he is judged. And even if he hasn't been too successful at it, at least his autobiography Dandy in the Underworld is a triumph, with the shallow brilliance of Bolan, Bowie, Wilde, and Crisp all polished into one.
Whilst people like William Beckford and Horace Walpole had to build their follies, Sebastian has established himself as his own. Hero, heroine, and heroin addict: Horsley is all things to all people.
Read Tom's interview with Sebastian Horsley.
Sebastian Horsley died on 17th June 2010.
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