Firstdraft // Last Call // End of Year Party and December openings

Name: Firstdraft // Last Call // End of Year Party and December openings
Start: 2025-12-12T18:00:00+1100
End: 2025-12-12T22:00:00+1100
Location: 13-17 Riley St

Fri, 12 Dec 2025, 6pm - 10pm AEDT

13-17 Riley St

Woolloomooloo NSW, Australia

Firstdraft

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You're invited to the Firstdraft Last Call End of Year Party and December openings.

ok, we'll have one more, but then we really have to go.

Join us on Friday, December 12th, from 6–10 pm to celebrate our final openings of the year. Last call before we close up shop on December 20th, and get back in our own studios over the summer holidays. Everyone welcome!

gallery 1 Residue Mia Boe, d harding, Sha Sawari curated by Georgia Boe

gallery 2 stockpiler Emilee Robinson

gallery 3 Gough and Margaret's Bullclip FM Georgia Lucy

gallery 4 Firstdraft Screening Program
The unbearable middle
Sam Calafiore; Julian Hamman; Daniel Merson; Yundi Wang
Doomsday clock set to my circadian rhythm (Breath Work)
beingbaker; Bella Deary; Emily Dynes
Doomsday clock set to my circadian rhythm (Future Archaeology)
Callum McGrath; Yanti Peng; Diego Ramírez

courtyard projection & online come as you are by Little Umbrellla Collective
Luke Abdallah, Chloë Abdelnour, Crystal Leigh Adams, Riia Badger, Lucrezia Maria Brotto, Arunan Dharmalingam, Sudheera Dissayanake, Matt Elliott, Zachariah Fenn, Oliver Fontany, Shira Fox, Jeremy Swales, Rowan Yeomans

⁠𝗗𝗝 Court Jester

image: beingbaker, The Sea Cure, 2025, video still,Courtesy the artist

Tickets for good, not greed Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity

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Firstdraft is where the future of contemporary art emerges, through a program that champions experimentation, risk and inclusion.

Situated on Gadigal land, Firstdraft is Australia’s leading contemporary art space dedicated to the presentation of emerging and experimental practice. We present a diverse program of exhibitions, performances, public programs, new work presentations, all free and open to the public. Programmed by an open and equitable call-out process we provide critical support for early career creative practitioners through professional development, commissioning and mentorship opportunities, and outreach. Firstdraft builds communities of artists and audiences from all backgrounds to come together and share the stories of our generation.

Firstdraft has been supporting emerging artists and bringing experimental practices to audiences since 1986. Established as an artist-run-initiative, its longevity is testament to the sustained commitment of countless artists, writers, curators and arts professionals involved with Firstdraft over the last four decades. With a commitment to positioning creative practitioners at the centre of all that we do, we include artists' voices in governance and champion diverse emerging and experimental practices, people and programs.

Firstdraft is supported by the New South Wales Government through Create NSW, the Australian Government through Creative Australia, and the City of Sydney through its Creative Spaces Program.

Firstdraft is a member of Contemporary Art Organisations Australia (CAOA), a national network of fifteen public, independent, non-collecting contemporary art organisations from all Australian states and territories that advocates for the small-to-medium contemporary visual arts sector in Australia. Firstdraft also co-convenes All Conference, a national organising network comprising fifteen artist-led, experimental and cross-disciplinary arts organisations.