What ideologies are subverted when curtains assert versatility, sensuality and movement in spaces typically defined by fixedness? Cubbyhouse (Nothing is Certain, said the Curtain) merges the familiarity of Ali Noble’s existing textile-based practise, with the exploration of a new format, video.
Firstdraft’s pop-up classroom, Class S2, calls for you to tap into your child-like self with the materials, knowledge and memories collected and experienced by who you are today, making objects in experimental and hopeful ways.
In Unruly Edges, Ellen Dahl, Emma Pinsent and Eduardo Wolfe-Alegria have collaborated to create an imagined ecotone or contact zone, formed as the boundaries of their works dissolve and entangle, initiating new dialogues between their works in order to draw out previously unexplored or emergent ideas in their practices.
Kate Coyne's studio practice explores how experience can be embodied and the nature of the relationship between the body/experience and materiality in a socio-political feminist context. Temporality, the progression of past, present and future is inherent, with materials discolouring over time and gravity taking over form and identity in the same way that it does with an ageing, sagging body.
Join us from 5-7pm on Saturday 6 April for the opening of four new exhibitions at Firstdraft.
Join us from 5-7pm on Saturday 6 April for the opening of four new exhibitions at Firstdraft.
Join us from 2-4pm on Saturday 10 February for free artist talks with the artists of our February/March exhibitions; Charles Levi, Corey Black, Amanda Bennetts and Vedika Rampal.
Join us for our FIRST Exhibition Openings of 2024 featuring four new exhibitions by Charles Levi, Corey Black, Amanda Bennetts and Vedika Rampal.
Luddite/Sodomite is a series of four textile and embroidery installations that investigate the immediate link between labour and textile through a queer lens.
To be post-Partition, is simultaneously to be post-colonial. Yet the wounds of Empire still infiltrate and seep through folds of diasporic and intergenerational memory today.
You Won’t Believe The Snap In Your Throat examines the processes of digestion at the locus of industrial and post-industrial fabrication methods.
I feel the weight of the minute as I bend my body towards the clock is a multimedia installation examining time and the labour of self-care for the disabled and ill body.
A night of live artworks, performances and installations, co-developed by Firstdraft and Arab Theatre Studio in partnership with Art Month Sydney.
An international commissioning project supported by the Keir Foundation, co-developed by Firstdraft and Beirut Art Center.
For the month of December, interdisciplinary artist, writer and community organiser Julia Bavyka will be in-residence at Firstdraft developing new episodic dream-texts.
Soft Power is an online exhibition featuring a suite of new commissions by eight artists and writers, each exploring what is obscured and nullified in emergent and established systems of power.
Five new commissions by Tom Blake, Jazz Money, Amy Claire Mills, Athena Thebus and Leo Tsao, presented at Carriageworks.
