"This year Craft turns 45 years old, and to celebrate this milestone we are pleased to launch the inaugural Victorian Craft Award. The Award is a biennial event facilitated by Craft Victoria in the pursuit of presenting and celebrating excellence…
Australia's leading climate researchers respond to the question, "How does climate change make you feel?" in an exhibition showcasing their hand-written letters collected by Science Communicator Joe Duggan. These researchers have dedicated their lives to understanding climate change, but this…
Rodney Schaffer's photographic series Luna is an exploration of the perception and interaction with one's surroundings. The series utilises urban and rural elements of the Australian landscape as a specific vehicle for how we interpret what is around us. The…
Epiphany is an exhibition that came about through commonalities in the creative process of artists Theo Papathomas and Helen Andrade. “At the end of the creative process we hold a mirror to ourselves and see a reflection of who we…
Michael Pearce has developed a series of luminous, lyrical and evocative pastel and charcoal works on paper. Lacuna explores the contrast and balance between the vertical and horizontal; and positive and negative space. This exhibition is the result of Pearce’s…
Five conversations take place across two programs, performed on consecutive dates; Program One: August 12, 14, 16: The Gods assist in an Investigation and A Toast to the Gods. Program Two: August 13, 15, 16: Seminar with the Gods about Progress,…
A solstice marks the two brief moments during an astronomical year when day and night meet as equals. This elusive balance between dreaming and wakefulness, the conscious and the unconscious, and the natural cycles around and within us, are the…
★★★★1/2 The Herald Sun (review from 2015 season) Inspired by Maria Callas’ 1971 visit to New York’s Juilliard School of Music, Terrence McNally's Master Class is a searing, funny and touching depiction of opera’s most beloved diva. At the time,…
★★★☆ The Age, August 2015 I wish every American play we staged here was performed with this level of assurance and flair - Cameron Woodhead, The Age The play gets under your skin - Variety A POWERFULLY redemptive celebration of forgiveness…
METASYSTEMS is a contemporary dance performance that analyses our human interactions with the environment from the individual to the universal. Through the documentation and translation of the processes taking place at the construction site, METASYSTEMS is an observation of the…
Maude Davey, Anni Davey, Anna Lumb and Gabi Barton present RetroFuturismus, a new future-focussed vaudeville with a retro twist: Post-burlesque, anti internet, completely live! RetroFuturismus will present a fabricated and tightly managed world overseen by the Davey twins channeling the…
Gavin Brown's exhibition The Printed Painting demonstrates a vibrancy of colour and collage. This exhibition revisits the process of printmaking that was a hallmark of Brown’s early textile designs of the 1980s. As an exploration of changing technological printing methods,…
A playwright’s more or less unrequited correspondence with the Minister/s for Immigration & Border Protection. I’d signed petitions and marched on demonstrations. For all the anger I felt about Australia’s treatment of asylum-seekers, what had I, Noëlle Janaczewska, actually done?…
Gertrude Opera’s second Culture Project, connecting opera with stories of social justice and humanitarian issues of our time, takes a Benjamin Britten Church Parable loosely based on a medieval Japanese Noh play and moulds to tell a modern tale, of…
THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT. PLEASE CALL US ON 03 9662 9966 TO BE ADDED TO THE WAIT-LIST. French gypsy swing virtuosos La Mauvaise Réputation are Australia’s most authentic interpreters of the wild rhythms and passion of 1930s Parisian hot jazz…
Tomás Arroquero male dance, Jini Lim female dance, Manolo Jaen singer, Kieren Ray guitarist. Dancer Tomás Arroquero sees contemporary Flamenco as an art that evolves from within the dancer, informed and shaped by intense study of the aesthetics and essence of the magnificent, ancient…
“Sweet beauty to be stolen” Don Giovanni - Mozart Ironwood teams up with Anneke Scott, historic horn (UK) to launch their new ABC Classics recording – some rediscovered world premieres of Mozart – stolen by him and by others. Playing…
A windy night. A summer storm is brewing. A house. Old and rickety. Seemingly abandoned. This is Tom’s house. But the others don’t know that. They just think he found it on Gumtree. And who cares if the roof’s leaking…
fortyfivedownstairs and Future Leaders present the inaugural Emerging Artist Award 2015. The Emerging Artist Award 2015 brings together the best emerging artists from universities across Victoria for a two-week exhibition. With $3000 of prize money on offer, esteemed judge Ron Ramsey will select…
Flight from Silence honours lost memories and untold experiences. Artists Lisa Sewards and Anna Taylor deliver bodies of work that both complement and define the other. Taylor’s Home Sweet Home - a Memorial for families of veterans is a collection…
Steph Bolt photo documents daily life. The subject matter is deliberately non heroic and celebrates our differences and similarities. Central elements of Bolt’s art practice are photography, travel and colour. Through print and sculptural media she observes, records and explores…
A radical abstraction by Colin Moody. Directed by Chris Mead. MR & MRS MACBETH is a radical abstraction of Shakespeare's Macbeth. It places literature's most infamous couple in a holding pen of infinite justice. Here all their lost dreams and…
Palya Art has a long history of working with, and for, Indigenous peoples living in far reaching communities across NorthWest Australia. "PALYA", (a Pintupi greeting word) is an outstanding exhibition of fine, traditional and contemporary Aboriginal artworks, with impeccable provenance, from North West…
The Rolling Wave is a recital of music performed by Matthew Horsley on the complex, evocative and eccentric uilleann pipes (Irish bagpipes), as the culmination of his JUMP mentorship with renowned Irish musician Mikie Smyth. The program will include Matthew’s…
David Hirst’s practice explores the emotional events that he has experienced during his travels through life and as a research scientist. Hirst seeks to explore the parallels between both fields, ultimately striving to capture emotion and memory so that the…
The work in this exhibition represents both recent and older works from the extensive oeuvre of five artists all of whom have been practicing and regularly exhibiting for more than thirty years. They share their formative years in the Melbourne…
Through the integration and collaboration of different artistic approaches The Fifth Wall derives its name from the projection screen used in a theatre or performance space. A suspended textile installation provides the backdrop to works on paper, collage and sculpture. Red…