Artist Talks
Free
Join us from 2–4pm on Saturday 4 February for free artist talks with the artists from our February–March exhibitions.
Join us from 2–4pm on Saturday 4 February for free artist talks with the artists from our February–March exhibitions.
Join us from 6–8pm on Friday 3 February for the opening of four new exhibitions at Firstdraft.
Conversion uses Hollywood melodrama, porn and “reality” or “documentary” aesthetics and stereotypes to draw on the inherently erotic, persuasive, and seductive nature of cinema and its capacity for conversion.
Year Without a Sun looks at the present through the lens of a historical climate crisis. In sculptural glass and film, the historical climate catastrophe caused by a bygone volcanic eruption is reanimated as an eye through which to view the environmental precarity of the present.
Within the context of imminent global catastrophe, speculation around plant consciousness and monstrous plants, as manifested in both philosophy and popular culture, is a site of productive tension concerning the vegetal, the more-than-human, and the future.
The Visible Invisible is an installation of expanded photography that uses black holes as a poetic device to explore identities shaped by adoption and diasporic existence, where not-knowing is an active lived-experience.