Exhibition Official Opening: Verdure - luminous beings

Next date: Thursday, 31 July 2025 | 06:00 PM

Join us for the official opening of the Ironbark Gallery's new exhibition Verdure: luminous beings, on Thursday 31st July, 6pm. 

Verdure: luminous beings, by the multi-disciplinary artist Liam Benson, underscores the importance of reciprocal exchanges in both human relationships and natural ecosystems that maintain holistic health for both individuals and the communities they form.

Nature’s unbiased, intrinsic responses within ecosystems serve as a model for understanding and processing the personal and communal experiences, lived experience and emotional learning that inform Benson’s cultural identity. Listening to and learning from nature, highlights the significance of both spoken and unspoken, direct and subtle exchanges that occur within inherited and chosen family relationships and community.

Communal memories, experiences and relationships have formed the foundation of Benson’s queer cultural experience. In equal measures, it has been shaped through the subtle osmosis of queer cultural legacy, transferred through the residual consciousness of queer storytelling, art, and language. 

Benson’s exhibition Verdure: luminous beings features new and existing work, as well as community collaborative works made through textile workshops and creative exchange facilitated by the artist.

Official Opening: Thursday 31 July 2025, 6pm

Where: Strathfield Library & Innovation Hub

Guest Speaker: Blake Griffiths artist, curator and facilitator working with a textile focus.

RSVP: Bookings are required for the opening for catering purposes, no later than Monday 21st July. RSVP by email: exhibitions@strathfield.nsw.gov.au

Exhibition: 1 August – 29 September 2025

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Ironbark Gallery, Strathfield Library & Innovation Hub, 65-67 Rochester St, Homebush, 2140, View Map