EDUCATION

University of Technology Sydney, Doctorate in Philosophy (Design) currently enrolled

University of Technology Sydney, (First Class) Honours in Design (Photography) 2020

University of Sydney - Bachelor of Visual Arts 2019


RESIDENCIES & DEVELOPMENT

Re-Figuring Ground Residency, Grafton Regional Gallery, 2023

CLOAK: Queer Science, Fashion & Photography, research project led by Todd Robinson & Cherine Fahd, 2023

Gunyah Residency 2022

Brand X Site Responsive Performance Residency 2021

Performance Space - Queer Development Program 2017

Sydney Festival of Death and Dying, Death Lab 2018 

Force Majeure Masterclass - 2018, 2019 and 2021

SOLO SHOWS

2024 (embargoed forthcoming project), NSW

2023, Site Fidelity (with Remi Siciliano), Tiles, Lewisham, NSW.

2022 Haunting in Kensington, Firstdraft, Woolloomooloo, NSW.

2021 Psittacines, Airspace Projects, Marrickville, NSW.

2018 A Wilder Sun, Firstdraft, Woolloomooloo, NSW.

GROUP SHOWS

2023, Overshare Video Festival, curated by Garden Reflexxx, Melbourne, VIC.

2023, ReFiguring Ground, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton, NSW.

2023, Unravelling Queerly, Australian Design Centre, Darlinghurst, NSW.

2023, CLOAK: Queer Science, Fashion & Photography, Todd Robinson & Cherine Fahd, UTS Galleries, Ultimo, NSW.

2022, Inland See, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton, NSW.

2021, A link, a loop, a circle, Granville Centre Art Gallery, Granville, NSW

2021, Art Month - Art at Night / Chippendale and Redfern precinct, Sydney NSW.

2020, Club Kooky Creatures, Red Rattler Theatre, Marrickville, NSW

2019, Container, Alpha Gallery, Newtown, NSW

2019, Blindside Satellite, Blindside Gallery, Mebourne, VIC.

2019, Untitled Art Month group show, Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby, NSW.

2019 Polari, Trocadero Art Space, Footscray, VIC.

2018 Crack X, This Is Not Art, Newcastle, NSW.

2018 Critical Bodies, curated by Julie Rrap and Cherine Fahd, Verge Gallery, Darlington, NSW.

2018 Netherworlds curated by Amy-Clare McCarthy & Kieran Swann, Spring Hill Reservoir, Brisbane, QLD.

2018 Netherworlds, Seventh Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria.

2017 Netherworlds, The Walls, Miami, Queensland.

2017 Blake Lawrence & Tango Conway, Cold Cuts, Stanmore, NSW.

2016 Netherworlds, Firstdraft, Woolloomooloo, NSW.

2016 Photomedia Showcase, SCA Galleries, Rozelle, NSW.

2016 B Track # 8, DedSpace Gallery, Rozelle, NSW.

2016 HYSTERICAL, Mailbox Artspace, Melbourne (with Wisteria Hysteria).

2016 The Temple Complex, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Liverpool, NSW.

2016 Oracular Vernacular - C3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, VIC.

2014 Acclivity - Site-specific installation, Palmers Island, NSW.

2014 Collection - Site-specific performance, Palmers Island, NSW.

PERFORMANCE

2024, Lights On–Sydney Biennale Opening Night, White Bay Power Station, Rozelle, NSW (forthcoming).

2023, A Room Full Of Bodies Working Hard To Produce Nothing, with Leen Rieth, Performance Space, Day For Night, Carriageworks, Eveleigh, NSW

2023, PUPPY, Show Us Ya Tips, Pleasures Playhouse, Chinatown, NSW.

2022 Contact Call, at Sydney Biennale, Waterhouse, Barangaroo.

2021 Haliastur, at PACT House: Crisis Actor, PACT Centre for Emerging Artists, Erskineville, NSW.

2021 Petite Suite, outcome of Brand X Site Responsive Performance Residency, Darlinghurst, NSW.

2021, Skin Deep by Meryl Tankard, Sydney Mardi Gras X National Art School, Darlinghurst, NSW.

2018 Dead Reckoning, at Crack X, This Is Not Art, Newcastle, NSW.

2018 Sydney Festival of Death and Dying, Critical Path, Rushcutters Bay, NSW.

2018 Netherworlds curated by Amy-Clare McCarthy and Kieran Swann, Spring Hill Reservoir, Brisbane, QLD.

2017 Dev Bath, The Cube, Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst, NSW.

2017 Club Kooky, The Red Rattler Theatre, Sydney NSW.

2016 Ecosexual Bathhouse by Pony Express, Performance Space - Liveworks, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW (performer within installation)

2016 HYSTERICAL opening, Mailbox Artspace, Melbourne, VIC (WH) 

2016 Day For Night: 24 Hours, Performance Space, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW

2016 Art Month - Art at Night / East Sydney edition, Sydney NSW.

2016 Club Kooky, Cruise Bar, Sydney NSW.

2016 Secret Garden Festival, Camden, NSW (solo)

2016 Queerbourhood at the Bearded Tit, Sydney NSW (solo).

2015 OutsideIn Festival - Manning House, Sydney, NSW.

WRITING, LINKS & PRESS

Unruly Rubber: Brenton Heath-Kerr’s Costume and the Queer Agency of Latex, 2023
in Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion: Fashion: Special Issue: ‘Fashion in the Age of AIDS’. (Intellect)
Full Citation: Lawrence, Blake (2023), ‘“Unruly rubber”: Brenton Heath-Kerr’s costume and the queer agency of latex’, Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion, Special Issue: ‘Fashion in the Age of AIDS’, 10:1, pp. 111–26, https://doi.org/10.1386/ csmf_00069_1

Mourning Murmurations: Speculative Fagulation and the Ecological Lament in Drag Down Under, 2023
in Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture, Special Issue: ‘Posthuman Drag’. (Intellect)
Full CItation: Lawrence, Blake (2023), ‘Mourning murmurations: Speculative fagulation and the ecological lament in drag down under’, Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture, Special Issue: ‘Posthuman Drag’, 8:1, pp. 79–97, https://doi.org/10.1386/qsmpc_00089_1

Thieves & Killahz, for Unlikely Projects, Birds and Language, curated by Madeleine Kelly and Jen Valender
https://unlikely.net.au/birds-and-language/thieves-and-killahz

Runway: Divine, Curated by Nathan Beard, 2021.
https://runway.org.au/blake-lawrence/

Netherworlds, curated by Amy-Clare McCarthy and Kieran Swann
https://firstdraft.org.au/exhibitions/netherworlds/ 
https://kieranswann.wordpress.com/netherworlds/ 

Oracular Vernacular, curated by Jake Adam Treacy
https://oracular-vernacular.tumblr.com/ 
https://www.c3artspace.com.au/oracular-vernacular/