Blake Lawrence is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher 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 queer stories of memory, resistance, place and belonging—historical and ever-present. They have exhibited nationally at Firstdraft, Seventh Gallery, C3 Contemporary, Grafton Regional Gallery, The Walls, Verge and more. They have presented live work for Performance Space, the Biennale of Sydney, Brisbane’s Spring Hill Reservoirs, the Art Gallery of NSW and Newcastle’s This Is Not Art. They have performed drag at Club Kooky, The Bearded Tit, Bad Dog, Tropical Fruits, Falls Festival and more. They have published in Queer Studies in Media & Culture and Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion, and have produced work for Unlikely and Runway Journals.