Verdure - luminous beings: Liam Benson
Strathfield Library & Innovation Hub
Exhibition: 1 August – 29 September 2025
Benson's Verdure: luminous beings, 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.
Within the process of translating intimate memories, experiences, relationships that have formed Benson’s queer cultural experience, it also gives weight to the subtle, disparate, osmosis of queer cultural legacy that is transferred through the subconscious and indirect queer legacy of storytelling, art and language.
Benson’s exhibition Verdure: luminous beings feature new and existing work, as well as community collaborative works made through textile workshops and creative exchange facilitated by the artist.
Image: Liam Benson Evenfall, 2024 (detail) sequins, seed beads, cotton, dyed calico, tulle, diamantes and rhinestones, Supported by Hilin Kazemi. Image credit: Jessica Maurer