Contemporary Australian Indigenous art from The Torres Strait, Tasmania, Victoria, East Kimberley and South Australia featuring Ricardo Idagi, Vicki West, Maree Clarke, Phyllis Thomas, Peggy Patrick & James Tylor. North South East West is an exhibition that spans the continent…
After the Light sees three of Melbourne’s most acclaimed and diverse artists come together for the birth of new project press, play. The universes of pianist Sonya Lifschitz, percussionist Leah Scholes and flutist Lina Andonovska have collided as they set…
★★★★★ "awe-inspiring performance" The Age "Maria Mercedes... is sensational as Maria Callas" Australian Book Review “masterfully directed” Theatre Press “this play cast a spell…Bravo.” Australian Stage Inspired by Maria Callas’ famous 1971 visit to New York’s Juilliard School of Music, Master…
“very funny… impressively tense” TimeOut Melbourne ★★★★★ “beautifully constructed, atmospheric piece of theatre... I highly recommend it” Melbourne.Arts.Fashion “a riveting production of this impeccably paced & often funny play” The Age It’s Christmas Eve and James ‘Sharky’ Harkin, battling alcoholism,…
"Michael Prideaux’s photographs draw attention to the liminal edge of the city laid out along the great puddle of Port Philip Bay, where he has lived for the last 40 years. He uses dazzling natural effects of light to illuminate…
David Frazer’s exhibition HUG at fortyfivedownstairs will not only showcase recent prints and paintings but also launch his latest handmade artist book little aches and pains in collaboration with singer songwriter Paul Kelly. This book was made completely in the…
An exhibition of recent works by artist Paul Blackman. Consisting of works on paper, Non/sense (or ‘when words fail.’), presents an exploration into notions of the absurd that lurk in the subconscious mind. Drawing, like the playing of a musical…
Abby Storey is a contemporary photographic artist based in Melbourne, Australia. Her exhibition Of the Land looks at the complex and sometimes paradoxical relationships between humanity and the natural world. This series forms both a portrait of a man and…
Still Life Paintings & Commissions is a culmination of fortyfivedownstairs’ second Artist in Residency, that ran from 4 February 2014. Christopher Beaumont has spent nearly four months creating new still life paintings as Artist in Residence at fortyfivedownstairs, which will…
Acacia Quartet explores new frontiers by commissioning jazz pianist and composer, Joe Chindamo, to write his first string quartet. Chindamo, who is equally gifted as composer, arranger and improviser, is known to skate effortlessly between musical genres with integrity and…
A Life Beyond Waiting is a community project created to raise awareness of the low rates of organ donation in Australia, and the possibility of generosity among human beings. Top Australian and emerging street photographers, Misho Baranovic, Mike Read, Greg…
From her frequent travels between China, Hong Kong and New Zealand Josephine Do developed and changed her artwork style and approach; introducing birds and clouds into her subject matter. She uses traditional Chinese landscape paintings in the background of her…
The Daylesford region… This is a new and recovering landscape. Unlike William’s Pilbara or Boyd’s Shoalhaven this region is a much interfered with earth zone. Formed firstly by violent volcanic processes coupled with awesome water bound sculpturing, then turned upside down…
Hybrid is inspired by the natural environment and embodies past experiences of Emma Davies' travels into remote communities. The use of bone and twine alludes to fragments of primitive life and rural landscapes, whilst the coiled and annular structures seem…
One dresses as a woman, one dresses as Oprah, the other dresses to the left. Imagine spending your whole life constantly playing someone else. This year three of Australia’s most talented solo performers are coming together to shed their skins…
Australia’s very own diva extraordinaire – the feather ruffler, the rabble rouser, the cabaret provocateur Yana Alana, returns with her 2013 Melbourne Cabaret Festival sell-out show Between the Cracks. Between the Cracks, a bent night of blues, burlesque and blame, is…
Bach with Bubbles is a rare opportunity to experience J.S. Bach's entire solo violin works, performed by three outstanding musicians, all multiple award winners both here and abroad. The Sonatas and Partitas are masterpieces. They have an emotional depth and…
Winter. Vienna 19 ~ (Frau) Death stalks the streets. A young Hitler arrives from Braunau seeking fame and fortune as an artist. Meanwhile, in a flophouse on Blood Street, Shlomo Herzl, a Jew, struggles with his magnum opus, Mein Kampf.…
★★★★ 'Funny & poignant, confident & vulnerable, frivolous & serious' Cameron Woodhead, The Age Davey awes her audiences Chris Boyd, The Australian gorgeous, gorgeous show Karla Dondio, Aussie Theatre A night of wild celebration Peter Green, 3MBS In 2013 Maude Davey…
THE FINAL PERFORMANCE ON FRIDAY 23 MAY HAS NOW SOLD OUT! “To this we’ve come, that men withhold the world from men…” Magda Sorel, THE CONSUL, Act 2 Ordinary people forced to use desperate measures to escape persecution and tyranny. …
Burma Untold is a group exhibition curated by Tammy Law that brings four Asia-Pacific based artists to fortyfivedownstairs. Burma Untold is a unique collection of works, drawing upon politically influential moments in Burma, as well as more contemporary stories of…
Artists Geoffrey Bartlett & Rhonda Baum come together for a joint exhibition in fortyfivedownstairs' large gallery space. Confluence will span mediums, and presents a culmination of artworks from both artists' personal journeys. The sculptures assembled for this exhibition span 6…
ALL PERFORMANCES HAVE SOLD OUT! The Leenane Trilogy is set in a rural Ireland so blighted by rancor, ignorance and spite, that even the local priest admits 'God Himself seems to have no jurisdiction here.' The Beauty Queen of Leenane…
Open Studio Day is a rare opportunity for the public to visit our artist in resident, Christopher Beaumont, in his studio. Situated in a space at the back of our large gallery, Christopher has been painting here since 4 February,…
Since his last solo exhibition in 1996, the focus for sculptor Christopher Hazzard is no longer when his next show is, but rather the work itself. The works he creates come from the subconscious. Meanwhile the wood itself always hasa…
TangoMundo continue their Piazzolla Project with the launch of their latest CD Fracanapa. TangoMundo are unique in Australia; specialising in authentic tango standards and with over 50 Piazzolla works in repertoire, including his most popular songs. All arrangements are by…
The female birthright; to conceive, carry, birth and raise a child the way generations before us have done.With this new found insight into ourselves and our capabilities, we are re-invented and changed undeniably as we learn to understand the internal…
Brigitte Braun Art Dealer presents a selection of works by Butcher Cherel Janangoo, Dorothy and Tommy May, Tiny McCale, Mawukura Jimmy Nerrimah and Pijaju Peter Skipper. This is a rare opportunity to see works by some of the finest painters…
The works in Royal Park – The Last Summer were made throughout Melbourne’s hot and dry summer of 2013-2014 with the hope of conveying the spirit and tranquillity of Royal Park. Throughout David’s life as a photographer he has been…
Young Greek-Cypriot Australian soprano, Christiana Aloneftis, debuts for the first time at fortyfivedownstairs with concert pianist Konrad Olszewski. Featuring music by Bellini, Piazzolla, Tchaikovsky and Gerswin with the centrepieces of the evening including Schumann’s Frauenliebe und Leben and the Australian…
7 stories – 7 directors KaBooM is based on real stories of Australians who have fought on the frontline. Australians who fled to this country to escape conflict and build new lives. Each of the tales serves as a basis…
When a clock ticks our concept of time is shaped and when we move through a building, from room to room we conceptualise space. Linear movements and containment dominate the way in which space and time are understood. But, what…
New paintings is John Cullinane’s third exhibition at fortyfivedownstairs. In this new body of work John explores the ongoing relationships between the male and female psyche, and throughout uses the shadow as a metaphor for the measurement of time. He…