Blake Lawrence is an interdisciplinary artist living in Warrang/Sydney working with performance, drag, photography, film, textile and story. Their work explores environmental collapse, loss and insurgence within East-coast ecologies beside stories of queer experience, memory, place and belonging—historical and ever-present. Their work offers reflective sites for holding grief and rage, responding to processes of alienation, ruination and extinction brought about by colonial and hetero-patriarchal projects. They are devoted to offering comfort, love, and strength through a celebration of the many ways human and non-human beings, objects, and stories endure, resist, find pleasure and flourish in togetherness.

Borne from sugar cane communities on Yaegl land and waters in Northern NSW (with their own tangled colonial and ecological histories), Lawrence lives and works on Gadigal land. They completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at the Sydney College of The Arts, and subsequently completed Honours In Design (Photography) at the University of Technology, Sydney–where they are currently undertaking a Doctorate in Philosophy (Design). They have exhibited locally and interstate, at Firstdraft, Seventh Gallery, C3 Contemporary, The Walls, Verge, Granville Arts Centre, Grafton Regional Gallery and more. They have presented live work in Brisbane’s Spring Hill Reservoirs, the Art Gallery of NSW and Newcastle’s This Is Not Art and have performed drag at Club Kooky, The Bearded Tit, Bad Dog, Tropical Fruits, Falls Festival and more.