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Firstdraft is where the future of contemporary art emerges, through a program that is critical, ambitious and experimental.
current exhibitions
Five new commissions by Tom Blake, Jazz Money, Amy Claire Mills, Athena Thebus and Leo Tsao, presented at Carriageworks.
interviews
“As a disabled woman your body is always being judged on its performance and image.”
“For me, it is a symbolic surface that represents the West; the East has been colonised and exoticised by canvas.”
“Art is an outlet for things that don’t have an outlet but that need to be let out.”
“For me, turning clothing into remedial objects was about unpacking my internal relationships to visibility and subverting the symbolic power of garments.”
Firstdraft's 2020 Program will recommence with exhibitions, residencies, writer and curator projects.
Images
Nick Modrzewski and Nabilah Nordin, install shot of Love Cushions, 2019
Connie Anthes and Julia Bavyka, install shot of Soft Infrastructure (detail), 2019
Smoking Ceremony for Around the Outside: Voice, Treaty, Truth, as part of Naidoc Week, 2019
and on the eyes, black sleep of night install shot, curated by Sarah Brasier, 2019
Therese Keogh, install shot of Imaged in Absence (detail), 2019
Rattus Rat Bedlington, install shot of Cockaigne, 2019
Kevin Diallo and Zoe Wong, install shot of Unleash the Dragon (detail), 2019
All image credits: Zan Wimberley