Luke Roberts uses performance as a space to safely explore and liberate aspects of his personality that were denied by his conservative Catholic upbringing in the isolated rural town of Alpha, in central Queensland. Taken in 1977, these performance photographs were only released in 2017 to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the artist’s first photoshoots of his alter ego, Alice Jitterbug. These playful gestures were not without risk, however, as during the 1970s, cross-dressing was not tolerated outside the confines of the theatre. As a consequence, no photographic documentation of Roberts’s first public performance in Melbourne (shopping and attending the National Gallery of Victoria) exists.