The team at Firstdraft are delighted to announce Firstdraft’s new Chair Augusta Supple and Treasurer Dominic Kavanagh.
We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Caity Reynolds as Firstdraft's new General Manager.
Firstdraft 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.
We 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.
“These spaces of imaginative and creative wildness are rare in a world that wants to compartmentalise and control all forms of cultural production.”
“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.”
The 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.
“I’m working mostly within the scope of documentary and experimental eco-cinema practices, utilising the principles of slow cinema and cinéma vérité.”
“The sun's pervasive presence allows it to be the subject, whether direct or not, for a lot of artistic practices and creative investigations.”
“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.”
“How can sound map the marginalised or subaltern body, archive, or practice?”
Firstdraft 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.
As well as being a popular fundraising initiative for our organisation, the Firstdraft Auction has become an important platform for distributing wealth back to artists.
The 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.