firstdraft gallery studio blog

The Emerging Artist Studio Program
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The program was initiated in 2004 with funding from the New South Wales Ministry for the Arts, allowing Firstdraft to make the studio on the ground floor of Firstdraft available to emerging artists as a studio space. Throughout 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 the program has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts.

This studio program has been developed to increase the breadth of Firstdraft’s involvement with and support for emerging experimental arts in Australia. The program provides emerging artists with the opportunity to develop their practice and exhibit within a dynamic artistic community in central Sydney.

Firstdraft studio artists are encouraged to utilise the time frame and the studio’s proximity to the exhibition space to create and exhibit work not normally encouraged by the short time frames available for installing work. The program provides an opportunity to work onsite in a dynamic environment with access to a community of peers, encouraging artists to become more involved in an Artist Run Initiative (ARI).

Current Residents:

Rachel Scott
BABABA International

2009 Residents:

Ella Barclay
Vicki Papageorgopoulos
Jordana Maisie
Jakie Middleton & David Lawrey

2008 Residents:

Leo Coyte
Kirsten Bradely
Will French
Kate Scardifield
Emma White
Anna John
Rachel Fuller
Nicola Hardy & Phil Schöde

November 20, 2008

It’s a sign

It is getting scarily close to the show opening. We have been really busy trying to get sponsorship for beer and a fridge with no luck from the corporates so we are going lo-fi. Um… anyone got a share house fridge and some home brew they wanna donate?

We would love to show some old skool skate videos too (which we have - yay) but we don’t want to show them on the hi-def ‘video art’ screen so a portable telly with one of those aerials made from a coathanger would be ace too.

The promo postcards have been approved and should be available next week - so if you are around firstdraft come and pick one up, they are lovely.

We have been having a great time stealing rubbish, erm I mean ‘sourcing art materials’ from local garbage bins. I’m sure anyone who has been in this situation knows the great rush you get when you find an awesome piece of cardboard and the ‘can-do’ attitude that suddenly appears when there is a perfect but massively heavy wooden palette out the back of someone’s shop. (Shout-out to Marky Marketing for the help carrying that bastard down the street). Also a big thanks to everyone who responded to the Facebook call-out for contributions to Friendship Island. I know it doesn’t make sense but it will when you see it. I knew there may be some kind of pattern forming with the answers but I didn’t expect that pattern to be a longing for free sex and the desire to live alone (most people’s idea of Utopia is either one or the other or both - I thought it was just me!). Bizarre!

So just to re-cap, here’s the new wish-list:

• portable telly with coathanger aerial

• home-brew

• beer fridge

Email me!

xx Nic

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