The team at Firstdraft are delighted to announce Firstdraft’s new Chair Augusta Supple and Treasurer Dominic Kavanagh.
Read MoreThe Firstdraft Census is Firstdraft’s annual stakeholder survey for 2024. Firstdraft is growing and we want to hear from you during this period of change.
Read MoreWe are thrilled to announce the appointment of Caity Reynolds as Firstdraft's new General Manager.
Read MoreFirstdraft is now seeking proposals from artists, curators and writers for consideration in our 2023–24 Program. We invite ideas that champion experimentation, risk and inclusion.
Read MoreWe are delighted to announce the 2023–24 Firstdraft Board of Directors: Kym Elphinstone, James Little, Geirthana Nandakumaran, Monica Rani Rudhar, Michelle Wang, and Olivia Welch.
Read More“These spaces of imaginative and creative wildness are rare in a world that wants to compartmentalise and control all forms of cultural production.”
Read More“We all have our own experiences of moving toward or away from connection, and for me, part of navigating these experiences necessarily involves a questioning of where I begin and end, what or who I consist of, and how the impacts of mutuality and difference influence how I move through the world.”
Read MoreThe 2022–23 Firstdraft Program will feature 54 artists, curators, writers, collectives and organisations supported to present work across 21 exhibitions, curator-led projects and live events, and writing residencies.
Read More“I’m working mostly within the scope of documentary and experimental eco-cinema practices, utilising the principles of slow cinema and cinéma vérité.”
Read More“The sun's pervasive presence allows it to be the subject, whether direct or not, for a lot of artistic practices and creative investigations.”
Read More“Lectus explores architectures that promise protection, and how this sense of safety often depends on one’s ability to forfeit their privacy and be surveilled.”
Read More“How can sound map the marginalised or subaltern body, archive, or practice?”
Read MoreFirstdraft is delighted to announce a new 2-year partnership with Metro Arts, Brisbane, supporting 2 regional NSW-based artists to present new work across both organisations.
Read MoreAs well as being a popular fundraising initiative for our organisation, the Firstdraft Auction has become an important platform for distributing wealth back to artists.
Read MoreWe are pleased to announce the appointment of Sally Golding as Firstdraft's new General Manager.
Read MoreFirstdraft is conducting a survey to help our team better understand our community.
Read MoreEmmaly joined Firstdraft at a major juncture for the organisation, guiding a brand new team across a threshold of global upheaval.
Read More“Nonno used to make these objects to scare away the birds from his veggie patch.”
Read More“I use a virtual clay – a computer simulation of clay which reacts using tools in real time.”
Read More“We always want to know what the ‘translation’ is – instead of sitting with the sound of the word, or how we pronounce it in our head, and thinking about what it means.”
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