Join us from 2–4pm on Saturday 3 December for free artist talks with the artists and curators of our December–January exhibitions.
Join us from 6–8pm on Friday 2 December for the opening of four new exhibitions at Firstdraft.
Ngali Jugun Ganaree (Of Our Country) centres Indigenous relationships with Country that have been ongoing for all time.
FUTURE NOSTALGIA looks at emergent narratives of the future through our relationships to song, dance, craft, food, ecologies, ourselves and each other.
I Cook A Lot Of All These Foods reflects on the home as a key space where the complexities of cultural negotiations exist, especially within a multi-racial household.
A(Di)pology explores how fatphobia and discrimination shape perceptions of our own and others' bodies.
Countdown the last hours of the 2022 Firstdraft Auction at the Artists Party.
200+ artworks contributed by 175 artists from across Australia
The Firstdraft Auction is back online and on site!
Honey Trap Sound System brings together Sydney’s most powerful and relevant femme artists and musical collectives for the first time under one alleyway.
Join us from 11am–1pm on Saturday 10 September for free artist talks with the artists and curators of our September/October exhibitions.
Join us from 6–8pm on Friday 9 September for the opening of four new exhibitions at Firstdraft.
In Telesm, objects endemic to the urban landscape are reimagined as talismanic artefacts that promise protection and guidance within the urban landscape.
Just Guzzling imagines how images and ideas are inherited, metabolised and manifest as logics that are difficult to outmanoeuvre.
댄싱머신: Dancing machine came to birth parallel to EJ Son’s fascination with the story of the artist-king Pygmalion of Cyprus and his sculptural waifu of Galatea.
so hot right now now now is a thematically ambivalent reflection on the millenarian consequences of catastrophic climate change impacting Australia now.
Six diverse, interdisciplinary artists unified by a shared interest in grappling with issues of space as it relates to agency, care, community, liberation, reclamation, perception, and disconnection – as well as our prescribed and unprescribed understanding of what it means to “access” space.
All that heaven allows is an audience-led performance installation that allows for multiple (dis)embodiments of the archetypal roles within the genre of horror.
Yvette James’s practice expresses the anthropomorphic qualities of our personal data. Through haptic solidity of steel and aluminium, Uncovering the Flesh in Our Satellites translates coded processes into a visceral, abject reality.
In The Enchanting Microplastics, Visaya Hoffie utilises 'plastic' as a signifier for popular culture – deploying a wealth of imagery, media and techniques to convey the way we ingest and regurgitate culture in contemporary life.
Red Inc. is both an exhibition and collective, featuring the work of eight East-Asian Australian artists – Casey Chen, Chris Chew, Rosemary Lee, Tya Tey, Yu Xin Jia, Morus Quin, Alicia Zhao, and Richard Chaohsi Wu – whose practices imagine what emerges from diversely hybridised cultural experiences.
sister +++++ familial formations looks at the act of collecting, capturing, constructing, charting, ordering, relocating and deconstructing a family.
Shoe Bathers conjures the deeply intimate and timeless relationship of the body’s sensory reception to the spirit, natural elements and kinship.
Matthew is an artist with a mental illness and a disability, and he believes he was destined to be an artist – with or without disability.
Temples of Doom is a moving image work that engages the issue of endangered pagoda rock formations and sacred First Nations rock-art sites in the recently announced Gardens of Stone State Conservation area of the Greater Blue Mountains.
A night of live artworks, performances and installations, co-developed by Firstdraft and Arab Theatre Studio in partnership with Art Month Sydney.
This one goes out to the one(s) I love is a series of quilted and hand-embroidered masks, each acting as a memento/keepsake of a person, or group of people, important to the artist.
Do we prepare for the future or let events occur in the absence of obvious intention or cause?
Georgia Morgan’s new exhibition By Proximity is an exercise in making tangible the unseen or out of reach.
I want to be made out of love, I want to be made into life is a meditation on the longing for place, community and love.
An international commissioning project supported by the Keir Foundation, co-developed by Firstdraft and Beirut Art Center.
