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Come As You Are introduces the individual practices that form the foundation of Little Umbrella Collective (LUC).
Residue, curated by Georgia Boe as a part of Firstdraft’s First Nations Curator Program, brings together the practices of three artists at different stages of their careers, working in diverse ways with charcoal.
Firstdraft is reviving our screening program to support ten artists working across video, film, and screen-based practice. The screening program runs from December 2025 - March 2026, offering multiple perspectives responding to two curatorial premises.
Guess what? In the '70s PM Gough Whitlam held an anthem quest to replace God Save the Queen. The Australian people responded eagerly with entries in notation, lyric and tape-recorded form.
stockpiler is an installation drawn from the remnants of her childhood garage, a room shaped by generations of quiet accumulation and a mosaic of several conflated identities.
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Drawing from experiences and knowledges across the Great Ocean, fa’alogo ‘o le temporary obstructions is an offering that echoes from Sāmoa, and into the labours of the dispersed.
Water frames displacement and return in Ballast, a work in conversation with Les Kennedy’s unfinished research into the HMAS Sydney II shipwreck and the familial loss it holds.
Message Depth is an installation that examines the hidden infrastructures shaping contemporary life.