I know we will participate in a major cultural change and I’m confident we will do this through knowledge, not anxiety
or the last two decades, Liam Benson has worked across multiple forms of media. Through performance, photography, video, and, more recently, textiles and embroidery, Benson has critically harnessed the seductive codes of advertising, film, and media to decentre Australian attitudes to gender, sexuality, race, and cultural identity. Right from the start his bold and uncompromising body of work began with the body, his body. Adorning that body is a queer language of drag that is important for the statements it makes about the spectrum of gender, in binary and all its non-conforming terms. As
