Join Firstdraft for our October/November exhibition openings.

Learn more here: https://firstdraft.org.au/curr...

Firstdraft will be undertaking all necessary measures to ensure the safety of visitors. The wearing of face masks indoors is recommended but not required.

Please read our information for visitors during COVID-19.

still waters run deep

Barbara Quayle,Blake Griffiths,Dan Schulz,Tannya QuayleandVerity Nunan

still waters run deep brings together the work of five artists who live or have lived on Wilyakali and Barkindji/Barkandji Country in Far West NSW: Barbara Quayle, Blake Griffiths, Dan Schulz, Tannya Quayle, and Verity Nunan...read more

A shrine for all you gave me
Jasmine Miikika Craciun

Using remnants of the world that her Mum, Aunties, and Nan lived in, Jasmine Miikika Craciun celebrates the love, life and strength they embody. Like the beautiful coloured glass and crockery that has stood the test of time on the sandy flats of Wilcannia long after the humpies have gone, the matriarchs of her lineage do the same...read more

The red chair in your picture does not exist

Lisa Myeong-Joo

There is a red chair that once existed in an adoption agency in Seoul. Between 1985-1989, the red chair, also known amongst social workers as the ‘photo chair’ in the ‘photo room’, helped stage (by its very function) the ‘first photo’ of a child for their future family. The ‘photo chair’ was almost inconspicuous were it not for its gold detailing and bright red vinyl. It is understood that this red chair was sat on by every adoptee (‘propped up’ by their foster mother) from this adoption agency during this period––with two copies posted to the receiving family and one kept in a file at the agency. The camera’s flash captures the act of sitting – a momentary pause – before departure. This year, 36 years after the artist’s ‘red chair photo’ was taken, she contacted the agency to enquire about this red chair and if it might still be there. The social worker’s only response––‘The red chair in your picture does not exist’.
In the potent slippage of translation, correspondence and negation, this exhibition is a performative affirmation that, ‘yes, it does!’...read more

Un/Conscious
Jamie-Lee Garner

This installation features a collection of sixteen brightly coloured and tactile canvases, creating a kaleidoscopic wall of colour. Colour is an entity, a portal, a phenomena that arises through the interplay of light and sight, acting on our neurology in order to exist. In a sense we put a little bit of ourselves into each colour as we observe it...read more

Firstdraft is open 11am–8pm Wednesday and 11am-5pm Thursday-Saturday.

We acknowledge and pay respect to the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which Firstdraft is built and operates.