2021 Program Announcement

Firstdraft is excited to announce the 2021 Program, featuring 45 artists, curators, writers, collectives and organisations supported to present work across 14 exhibitions, 3 curator-led projects and live events, and 4 writing residencies and online programs.

Hanna Cormick, The Mermaid, 2018, live performance. Photo: Shelly Higgs (Novel Photographic). Courtesy the artist.

The programmed participants are based across Australia and around the world and represent diversity across disciplines, generations and experience, and include: Sonya Holowell (NSW), James Hazel (NSW), Lisa Myeong-Joo (NSW), Tanaporn Norsrida (NSW), Jana Ortanez (NSW), Natalie Tso (NSW), Sineenart Meena (NSW), Edwina Green (VIC), Laetitia Olivier-Gargano (VIC), Morgan Hogg (NSW), Bad Fiji Gyals (NZ, USA), Holly Anderson (QLD), Trent Crawford (VIC), András Cséfalvay (SK), Kalanjay Dhir (NSW), Alex Gawronski (NSW), Vande Grey (NSW), David Haines and Joyce Hinterding (NSW), Emma Hamilton (VIC), Estee Sarsfield (NSW), Greg Stanford (NSW), David Suyasa (NSW), NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (USA), Tim Marvin (NSW), IchikawaEdward (VIC), Sofiyah Ruqayah (NSW), Amelia Skelton (NSW), Georgia Morgan (TAS), Spence Messih (NSW), Harrie McKay (SA), Blake Lawrence (NSW), J Bi Li Chan (NSW), Lou Garcia-Dolnik (NSW), Somayra Ismailjee (WA), Melody Paloma (VIC), ANTE (NSW), Hanna Cormick (ACT), Lost All Sorts Collective (NSW), Jamila Main (SA), Daniel Savage (ACT), Riana Head-Toussaint (NSW), Julia Bavyka (NSW), Shireen Taweel (NSW), Marian Abboud (NSW), and Matthew Clarke (VIC).

The 2022 Program Callout will open in second half of 2021; applications for the First Peoples Curators Program are open and encouraged year-round. Subscribe to our newsletter to be the first to find out when our next callout goes live.

The 2021 Program will launch with four new exhibitions opening Wednesday 5 May 2021.

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