^{Garden Variety Dykes}

^{Firstdraft Gallery
13/17 Riley St, Woolloomooloo, Sydney/Gadigal
March 28 - May 11, 2025}

OVERVIEW:

   
        Garden Variety Dykes is a sculptural group show expanding on the sapphic gardening publication of the same name, edited by Irene Reti and Valerie Jean Chase in 1994.


    The works reference the heartfelt publication, deep diving into queer ecologies to explore diverse sapphic longing in the garden.

ARTISTS:

Abbra Kotlarczyk, Seren Wagstaff, Tiana Jefferies, Amy Sargeant and Tay Haggarty with Annie Monks. 

Curated by Tay Haggarty.

Publication: poem by Abbra Kotlarczyk; image by Marilena Hewitt; printing by Stray Pages.




Photograph by Irina Strauss.


Photograph by Irina Strauss.

Garden Variety Dykes, installation, 2025
Gallery 1, Firstdraft
Photograph by Jessica Maurer


Garden Variety Dykes, installation, 2025
Gallery 1, Firstdraft
Photograph by Jessica Maurer


Garden Variety Dykes, installation, 2025
Gallery 1, Firstdraft
Photograph by Jessica Maurer


Love Triage I (left) and Love Triage II (right), 2024
Hand-perforated and earth-impregnated paper, graphite powder, rice glue, water, hole punched awagami and mingeshi squeeze papers using casuarina she-oak seed pods, natural dyes of casuarin she-oak, Australian bluebell, sage and borage, polymer clay, rare earth magnets, Tasmanian oak
29.5 x 144 cm (individual works on paper dimensions) / overall dimensions variable 
Photograph by Jessica Maurer


Garden Variety Dykes, installation, 2025
Gallery 1, Firstdraft
Photograph by Jessica Maurer


Love Triage I, detail, 2024
Photograph by Jessica Maurer


Love Triage I, detail, 2024
Photograph by Jessica Maurer


Love Triage I, detail, 2024
Photograph by Jessica Maurer


Love Triage II, detail, 2024
Photograph by Jessica Maurer