THREE DAYS WALK
Firstdraft x Canberra Contemporary exhibition exchange
18 September - 11 October 2026, Platform
Exhibition opening: Thursday 17 September 2026, 6pm
Three Days Walk will present the work of Gadigal/Sydney-based artist Johanna Ng at Platform, while Kamberri/Canberra-based artist Bridget Baskerville will exhibit at Sydney’s Firstdraft gallery.
Two writers have also been selected to develop a critical and/or creative text in response to the exhibition in their host city. Chin-Jie Melodie Liu will produce a text to accompany Johanna Ng’s exhibition at Platform and Alanna O'Riley will create a written response to Bridget Baskerville’s exhibition at Firstdraft.
Johanna Ng lives and works on unceded Dharug land (Sydney). Across photography, moving image, installation, and performance, she seeks to uncover the autonomous life of images. Aided by participatory processes, Ng considers how images percolate through individual and collective consciousness to emerge as embodied actions, cultural mimicry, and performances of self.
Chin-Jie Melodie Liu is an artist, curator and writer based in Kamberri/Canberra. Her interdisciplinary practice is informed by her Taiwanese heritage and focuses on contested histories and collective memory. She is interested in varying forms of creative collaboration and the use of text as visual material.
Bridget Baskerville is an early career artist, based in Canberra on Ngunawal Ngambri Country. Through the themes of history, time and ecology, Baskerville’s work examines human impact on place and the relationship between community, extractive industries and water. Her practice is informed by her experience of growing up in a mining family in Kandos on Dabee Wiradjuri Country in rural NSW.
Alanna O'Riley is an arts professional, writer and academic from Aotearoa New Zealand, currently living and working on Gadigal Country. Her writing practice is grounded in memory and lived experience, exposing the latent meanings that lie within each subject through close observation and phenomenological inquiry.
Three Days Walk has been developed by the teams at Canberra Contemporary and Firstdraft to support early career artists and arts writers and build meaningful connections between artistic communities from both places. Reflecting the close geographical proximity of the two neighbour cities, this project marks an exciting opportunity for these individuals to reach new audiences.
Image: Portrait of Johanna Ng courtesy the artist. Portrait of Chin-Jie Melodie Liu courtesy Luka Vertessy. Portrait of Bridget Baskerville courtesy Elisa Georgi.
