What ideologies are subverted when curtains assert versatility, sensuality and movement in spaces typically defined by fixedness? Cubbyhouse (Nothing is Certain, said the Curtain) merges the familiarity of Ali Noble’s existing textile-based practise, with the exploration of a new format, video.
Firstdraft’s pop-up classroom, Class S2, calls for you to tap into your child-like self with the materials, knowledge and memories collected and experienced by who you are today, making objects in experimental and hopeful ways.
In Unruly Edges, Ellen Dahl, Emma Pinsent and Eduardo Wolfe-Alegria have collaborated to create an imagined ecotone or contact zone, formed as the boundaries of their works dissolve and entangle, initiating new dialogues between their works in order to draw out previously unexplored or emergent ideas in their practices.
Kate Coyne's studio practice explores how experience can be embodied and the nature of the relationship between the body/experience and materiality in a socio-political feminist context. Temporality, the progression of past, present and future is inherent, with materials discolouring over time and gravity taking over form and identity in the same way that it does with an ageing, sagging body.
Learn how to do photo transfers onto homewares with Bonnie Huang and transform pre-loved ceramics with a collage of poetry and nostalgic clip-art images to give the unused objects new life.
Knees, palms, forehead, bow down and kiss cool tiles. Like so many before and so many to come, humans find themselves present before shrines of many makings. Come craft a personal shrine with artist emoeba h♡rtbridge.
Join Kate Coyne and make your own interactive inflatables from upcycled materials like chip bags, recycled paper and paper straws! Create interactive, air-powered creations that explore sculpture and pop-ups. Animate a character, an abstract form or a weird sea creature!
Join Sehej Kaur and Kaylee Rankin for a community quilting session at Firstdraft. In strengthening and sewing together fragments or loose memories of each person's fabric, our host's offer an opportunity for reflection on community, solidarity and collective resistance.
Delivered in partnership with Hope St exclusively for Woolloomooloo Youth Week, the crafting of a wind chime using found objects seeks to generate mindfulness at a pivotal time of development. Firstdraft hopes to promote mindfulness towards young people’s personal wellbeing and attitudes towards the environment.
Join us from 5-7pm on Saturday 6 April for the opening of four new exhibitions at Firstdraft.
Join us from 5-7pm on Saturday 6 April for the opening of four new exhibitions at Firstdraft.
Within the shared realms that we move through lies a concealed network of invisible architecture that charts separate paths and boundaries. Soft Cell brings together work by five artists from the 2023 Firstdraft program to navigate these nebulous and unclear borders and ambiguous social constructs.
Luddite/Sodomite is a series of four textile and embroidery installations that investigate the immediate link between labour and textile through a queer lens.
To be post-Partition, is simultaneously to be post-colonial. Yet the wounds of Empire still infiltrate and seep through folds of diasporic and intergenerational memory today.
You Won’t Believe The Snap In Your Throat examines the processes of digestion at the locus of industrial and post-industrial fabrication methods.
I feel the weight of the minute as I bend my body towards the clock is a multimedia installation examining time and the labour of self-care for the disabled and ill body.
