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.
Join us on Friday, December 12th, from 6–10 pm to celebrate our final openings of the year.
Occasional Writing is a three-hour expansive writing workshop facilitated by Rachel Schenberg and Toyah Webb.
200+ artworks contributed by 175 artists from across Australia
The Firstdraft Auction is back online and on site!
Our annual fundraiser is a time to come together and celebrate artists supporting artists.
Embracing the flip-the-table energy of the new year, be engulfed by loud, saucy and uninhibited artworks in a night of hedonism and surprise.
Archaeology of Memory tells the stories of refugees and asylum seekers, suspended between conflict and political rhetoric.
Virtual works and prints exploring figures that hatch in speculative futures. The series is informed by the natural systems and projections of tomorrow.
A text-based textile installation highlighting society’s attitudes towards and the absurdities of our need to save, change or fix disabled people.
An installation of paintings that convey the artist’s experience of involuntary seclusion.
For NAIDOC Week 2020, Firstdraft has commissioned 8 First Peoples TikTok creators to present new video content online.
Corporeal/Spiritual considers concepts of materiality, unacknowledged histories, experiences of the body beyond death, and renewal.
An exhibition that explores how normative understandings of gender are performed, controlled, and organised within fashion retail spaces.
An installation that focuses on connecting the limits within and between material experimentation and performativity.
Linguistic Prosperity aims to reclaim the agency and authority over the listing of our words, reasserting dominance in a space which was always ours.
A glistening shipwreck rests in a darkened gallery: a monument to the past and spectre of our future.
Argileh at Wedding Cake Rock features a series of tableaux constructed from surreal appropriations of Western Sydney neighbourhoods and social montages.
In Their Finery explores the familial performance of inherited traditions, the temptation of embodying your own exotic, and the politicisation of the chickpea.
For the first time in its 11-year history, the Firstdraft Auction will be hosted entirely online. Our annual fundraiser is a time to come together (virtually) and celebrate artists supporting artists.
An online exhibition centring emerging and established artists and writers whose practices challenge the colonial state of Australia.
Curated by Katie Winten
After hitting the streets of Kings Cross and Wolloomooloo, join us at Firstdraft where we’ll be partying into the night.
