Gallery 1 Threads explores the tangible and intangible connections, ties of friendship, shared practices and emerging collaborations – all of which play a vital role in sustaining the community organisation Refugee Art Project. The exhibition will feature five collections of work by the artists: Tabz A, Leila Beigli, Mohammad, Majid Rabet in collaboration with the Australian Muslim death metal band Hazeen, and the Indonesian art collective Taring Padi. The latter’s inclusion speaks to the initial steps in a process of collaboration and knowledge sharing between Refugee Art Project and Taring Padi, who are based in Yogyakarta. Both organisations participated in last year’s Documenta 15 exhibition, which took place in Kassel Germany, and are committed to practices of informal knowledge sharing and creative partnership, encapsulated by the concept of ‘lumbung’ (denoting a communal rice barn or shared pool of resources). Threads foregrounds themes and practices which unite us as individuals and as organisations, reflecting critically on art in process and what is to come. Leila Beigli; Tabz A; Mohammad; Majid Rabet; Hazeen; Taring Padi Join us from 6–8pm on Friday 2 June for the opening of four new exhibitions at Firstdraft.