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The Inaugural
Firstdraft Print Edition, 2011
By Agatha Gothe-Snape.
Printed by BIG FAG Press

Archive

2010
14 April – 2 May Wild Feathers

Acts of Science

4

The Virtue of Scissors

Alice Williams

Justin Cooper

Emma Ramsay

Ash Cooper and Vinessa Trikeriotis

24 March – 11 April Then i came upon a holy city

More From Old Mates

HARDCORE FOLKLORE

CHRONOX

Alex Clapham and Andrew Haining

Craig Dermody

Celeste Aldhan

Michael Prior & Lachlan Conn

3 – 21 March HOLY

Crossing Over

Between the Flags

Twitch

amira.h.

Alice Lang

David Sullivan

Lachlan Anthony & David Withers

2009
30 Sept- 17 Oct Great Expectations

In all wholeness

Knife Edge

Sarah Contos

Danielle Cleg, Sarah Byrne & Ruth Mcnchie

Rachel Scott

9 Sept- 26 Sept Rapismo

Soap City

this is fat controller to major tom

Sophia Egarchos

Bababa International

Zoe Coombs Marr

12 – 29 August Names and Places Curated by Ivan Muniz-Reed as part of the Firstdraft Emerging Curators Program

Artists: Artemio, Esteban Aldrete, Pia Camil, Renato Garza-Cervera, Biljana Jancic, Ella Neville, Benjamin Ryan, Joaquin Segura, Marion Sosa

22 July – 8 August Big Bad Wolf

In loco parentis

Magnificent

Stephanie Bray

Sean O’Keeffe

Justy Phillips

1 July – 18 July Unto the Breach (Dear Friends) Agatha Gothe-Snape, Camille Serisier, Michaela Gleave, Sean Rafferty, Penelope Benton
10 June – 27 June Every artist remembered

Shit rip

Veneer

Agatha Gothe-Snape

Ella Barclay

James Harney

20 May -6 June The oats ate the horses

Invested Objects

o.n.o

Sam Villalobos

Kevin Platt

Kenzee Patterson

29 April-16 May Potential Energy

Echoes of Gold

The Vanishing City

Jordana Maisie as part of the Frstdraft Emerging Artist Studio Residency Program

Lisa Stewart & Rachel Feery

Jessica Tyrrell

8 April-25 April Visage Curated by Felix Ratcliffe as part of the Firstdraft Emerging Curators Program

Artists include: Robert HABEL Michelle HANLIN Julian HOOPER Matthew HOPKINS Rob McHAFFIE Mark RODDA and Jake WALKER

18 March-4 April Storybook World for You & me
My Retrospective Gives Me Perspective
Sweet Spill
Madeleine Donovan
Vicki Papageorgopoulos
Jessica Maurer
25 Feb-14 March Love to Love You Baby
Molto Morte
Time Trap
Dane Lovett
Safari Team
Dave Lawrey & Jaki Middleton
4-21 Feb One Liner
Stranglehold
Ship of Fools 2
Tom Polo
James Jirat Patradoon
Fran Barrett & Nick Sun
14-31 Jan Game is Good Lauren Brincat, Rachel Fuller, Michaela Gleave, Kate Mitchell

Curated by Michaela Gleave as part of the Firstdraft Emerging Curators Program

2008
10 -27 Dec The Let’s Come Together & Feel Alright Show
Obliteration
Nicola Hardy and Phil Schöde

Curated by Tully Arnot as part of the Firstdraft Emerging Curators Program

19 Nov – 6 Dec God I Look Like A Girl
Stop doing what you are doing
Treat (or Trick)
Rachel Fuller
Kenzie Larsen
Zanny Begg
12-15 November SINGLE POSTER SEEKS SAME Firstdraft Fundraiser Show
1-18 October Field Trip USA
My metaphorical arsehole & other drawings
Doodles
Anna John
Pia de Bruyn

Fran Barrett

10 – 27 September Patience. This is a means and not the end.
Continents of Curiosity
Nothing But Something
Kate Scardifield

Troy Emery
Frances Hansen and Louise Stevenson

20 August – 6 September Desperately trying to tell you something
Seminal Fluids
YokoPeace (the space between us)
Andrew Newman and Ben Terakes

Sach Catts and Tom Isaacs
Kim Connerton

6 – 16 August It’s All Been Done Before Ben Byrne, Anastasia Freeman, June Green, Michelle Jamieson, Peter Newman, Sean Rafferty, Soda_Jerk.

Curated by Daniel Green

16 July – 2 August Performing for the Camera Rachel Scott, Lauren Brincat, Brown Council, Kate Murphy, Anthea Behm, Anastasia Zavinros, Liam Benson, Kevin Platt, William Mansfield, Tetronomicon, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Post

Curated by Kelly Doley and Diana Smith
as part of the Firstdraft Emerging Curators Program

25 June – 12 July Rise and Fall
The Elastic Band
Black Out
Emma White
Jo Cuzzi, Patsy Black and Amanda Cole
Tully Arnot
4 – 21 June Chop Sweat Chop
Outside the Corner
High Stakes
Will French
Allan Garlick
Louisa Dawson
23 April – 10 May THISISCURATING 1-40 Katherine Birkman & Kate Mitchell (Greedy Hen), Neils Betori Diehl, Sharon Chin, Annie Cohen, Andrew Haining, Samuel Hodge, David Keating, Victoria Lawson, Mario Pfeifer & Amy Patton, William Pritchett, Hanne Rivrud & Monja Wiik (H&M), Justin Shoulder and Nadia Wagner.

Curated by Joel Mu
as part of the Firstdraft Emerging Curators Program

2 – 19 April About, above
Anesthesia for the Uninterested
One Second Video Library
Kirsten Bradley
Josie Cavallaro
Leah McPherson
12 – 29 March SLO BLO
The Lovers
Shit Future
Leo Coyte
Erez Ben-or
NEG HEAD
20 February – 8 March The Science Fair Diego Bonetto, Marley Dawson, Naomi Derrick, Anna John, Matthew P. Hopkins, Vicki Papageorgopoulos, Emma Ramsay, Matthew Tumbers, Alex Vivian, Simon Yates
Curated by Kat Barron
as part of the Firstdraft Emerging Curators Program
January 30 – February 16 American Anus
Live when I’m alive and sleep when I’m dead
We’ll keep our cow shit in the country if you keep your bull shit in the city
Mark Shorter
Lauren Brincat

Koji Ryui, Shane Haseman & Vicky Browne

January 9 – 26 I am a good boy Mitch Cairns, Marley Dawson, Christopher Hanrahan, Todd McMillan, Michael Moran, Ben Quilty and Pete Volich
Curated by Elise Routledge
as part of the Firstdraft Emerging Curators Program
2007
December 12 – 29 The Hundred Years’ War
Stuck On You
Pagan Grind
Emily Hunt
The Stickers
Sean Bailey
November 21 – December 8 So, what more could a train want…?
Weatherman UFOlogy
Phulkari
Julie Burke
Jacque Drinkall
Fatima Naseer Ahmad
October 31 – November 17 Between You and Me Ben Denham, Paul Greedy, Sarah Jamieson, Rachel Scott, Sam Smith
Curated by Anneke Jaspers as part of the Firstdraft Emerging Curators Program
10 – 27 October (a) Bird in (a) Space
Connections / Disconnections
Pazite na Decu (Take Care of the Children)
Benedict Ernst
Rolande Souliere
Jelena Telecki
3 – 6 October Square Dance Firstdraft 21st anniversary fundraiser exhibition
19 – 29 September Everything, Again
One Thing After Another, 2001-2006
Imogen Beynon, Kel Glaister, Ardi Gunawan, Tamsin Green, Stephen Palmer
Pat Foster, Jen Berean
August 29 – September 15 Ernest Aaron
Return To Work Program
The Future Pt.2: Getting Used to the Future. Version 2.2 – A Bogus Infinity
Ernest Aaron
Dave Miles
Matthew Hopkins
August 8 – August 25 Clip Art Ben Frost, Deborah Kelly, The Motel Sisters, Elvis Richardson, Kate Smith, Soda_Jerk & Sam Smith, Grant Stevens, Emile Zile
Curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham
July 18 – August 4 Drawing Around
Love and Death in 8 minutes
An Excessive Aesthetic
Paola Gaviria
Brown Council
Tom Polo
June 27 – July 14 The (body) reinstated T.R. Carter, Anna Chase, Jon Wah, and Anastasia Freeman
Curated by Louise Dibben
June 6 – June 23 On the Multiplicity of Wolves
Template
Drunk in the Sunk Cinema
Teo Treloar
Conductor: Cy Norman and Michael Robinson
Nick Strike
May 16 – June 2 Board of INFLIGHT
Show and Tell
Inflight Board of Directors
Niomi Sands
April 25 – May 12 Wonder Whites
Hyperthermia
Conservative Times
Rochelle Haley
Robin Hungerford
Kelly Doley
April 4 – April 21 Zombie
Group Show
Emma Ramsey & Anna John
Aaron Seeto, Dave Withers, Huseyin Sami and Simon Yates
March 14 – March 31 The Gaze
Paperhouse
No System Can Give The Masses The Proper Social Graces
Julia Burns
Peter Newman
Poi Beltran, Louie Codero, David Griggs, Romeo Lee, Jayson Oliveria, Manuel Ocampo
February 21 – March 10 Migrating Within
Serious Play
Future Search
Angela Femia, Helen Sturgess, Elke Wohlfahrt
Bonita Bub, Ben Terakes, Melody Williams
spat + loogie
January 31 – February 17 Technè – Auxons Andrew Gadow
January 10 – January 27 The Depression Pages
On the Hunt for the Global Player
Pataphysical Investigations
Felix Terry
Iris-A-Maz
Angela Grimsdale
2006
13 – 30 Dec A homage to a Private Place
I could be your big dipper
Not here (to make sad songs sincere)
Emma Van Leest
Riki Tiki Tavi
Michael Moran
22 Nov – 9 Dec
Hand Powered
It’s OK
Abstraction and Representation
Natalie Woodlock
Tori Ferguson
Sarah Newall
1 – 12 Nov
Potent
Samuel Bruce, Ivar Lehtsalu, Sumugan Sivanesan, Sam Smith, Jasper Knight
17 – 29 Oct
Only Some of The Time (Banal Personal Revelations)
No Show
The Invisible Reading Room, presented by The Invisible Inc.
Ms and Mr, Rachel Scott, Madeleine Donovan, Jessica Olivieri, Emma White, Kate Just
Curated by Emma White and Jessica Olivieri
Iakovos Amperidis
Artists Self-published works from both Australia and around the world
3 – 15 Oct Plastic Myth Mitch Cairns, Fatima, Wilkins Hill, Gavin Hurley, Sam Mitchell, Michael Moran, Michelle Usher
Curated by James Steele
20 – 30 Sept
The Ceiling Project
Second Star on the Right, Then Straight on ‘Til Morning
Rumours
Helena Leslie
Elizabeth Reidy
Anthea Behm, Sean Rafferty, The Discriminating Gentleman’s Club (Le Club Des Getilhommes Avertis)
Curated by Kathryn Gray
30 Aug – 16 Sept
Headmuzak
The Quiet Section
Screen Test (Australiana) – A suicidal Synthesis
Michael Prior
Leah McPherson
John A. Douglas
9 – 26 Aug
The General Will
It’s Moments Like These
The General Will
Tim Silver
19 Jul – 5 Aug
Forest Work
Progress Report III: Geometry and its Divisions in the Field
Outlands: We Got The Bright Lights Shining On Our Backs
Leahy + Watson
Tom Wallace
Mitch Cairns
28 Jun – 15 Jul
Choir
Nigel Milsom
More archives coming soon…