Self-performance and body adornment are at the core of Liam Benson’s practice, and central to that work is the way his video, craft techniques, and photography overlap, subverting and cross-referencing entrenched ideologies, popular iconography, art, and media language. As a means of both empowerment and humour, Benson creates unsettling images of great beauty that subtly deal with issues of masculinity, homophobia, gender, culture, subculture, and colonial history. This exhibition surveys Benson’s existing body of work and includes new collaborative pieces made with local communities in Bathurst, New South Wales.
Liam Benson, The Crusader, 2015, inkjet print on cotton rag paper, 90 × 134cm. Collection the artist Photograph: Alex Wisser. Courtesy the artist and Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
5 November 2022 to 15 January 2023
New South Wales
