Sally Golding appointed General Manager
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Sally Golding as Firstdraft's new General Manager.
Sally is a producer, curator and artist with a 17-year career spanning local and international galleries, libraries and museums including, most recently, as Program Manager at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Canberra. She brings to Firstdraft deep experiences across organisational processes, strategic management, and digital experimentation.
Reflecting on our 35-year history and the challenges and opportunities presented to our community in the last 18 months, Sally’s leadership and uncompromising support for artists will be vital to ensuring Firstdraft's continued growth and sustainability.
Sally Golding. Photo: Grace Costa.
Sally Golding is a producer, curator and interdisciplinary artist who has managed projects, enabled innovative thinking and built partnerships across the galleries, libraries and museums sectors since 2004. Sally’s interest in collaborative digital platforms is informed by her work on cultural heritage and contemporary media projects for organisations including National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, State Library of Queensland; as well as White Cube, Associated Press, Royal Museums and No.w.here, UK.
As co-founder and curator of OtherFilm, Australia, and founder and director of Unconscious Archives, UK, Sally has been responsible for researching, planning and delivering dynamic programs of exhibitions, festivals, talks, screenings, workshops, and publications that involve diverse participants to excite and engage audiences. From grassroots community forums to major institutional partnerships, as a curator Sally has worked with over 250 artists, academics and creatives, and produced over 150 events.
Recent curatorial highlights include Antiphonic Incidence at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Slovenia, in partnership with Sonica Festival; Unconscious Archives Festival 2017 involving over 40 diverse artists, musicians and writers; and the book Parsing Digital: Conversations in digital art by practitioners and curators published by Austrian Cultural Forum London. Sally’s artistic practice explores immersive participatory environments as a mechanism for shared experiences within new technological contexts. Sally has performed extensively including for Tate Modern, London; Serralves Museum, Portugal; San Francisco Cinematheque; Melbourne International Film Festival; and Digital Culture Centre, Mexico City. She exhibited as the premier show at Metro Arts’ new gallery, and she has a major exhibition in 2023 at the Museum of the Moving Image, New York. Sally received the prestigious Oram Award (New BBC Radiophonic Workshop) for women innovating in sound and technology, and her work features extensively in the recent book Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia (Oxford University Press).
Please join us in welcoming Sally to our team, and we look forward to collaborating with her on the next chapter of Firstdraft.
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