Placings / Citings enquires into the multiple histories haunting its site. It is a self-reflexive exhibition informed by its particular placement. Presented in the small gallery at fortyfivedownstairs, the project reflects upon the material and historic residues of the building…
Part of Melbourne Fringe Festival Live Acts On Stage is an orgy of ancient myths told through contemporary and ancient text. Sift that mixture through Four Letter Word Theatre and at the helm of it, Director Sara Tabitha Catchpole, and you're in…
A piano recital with electronic destruction Matt Brown helps Peter Dumsday portray feelings of stillness and movement in piano music across the centuries. From familiar piano repertoire classics, through a handful of pieces by 20th Century master György Ligeti, to at…
The exhibition Chemical Moon features photographs that explore the “hypnogogian” state that exists between wakefulness and sleep. Using small hand built dioramas interpreted through a combination of 19th and 21st photographic technique, Mark Kimber creates works that have a “half-remembered’…
Nicholls’ powerful and expressive wood carvings, paintings and prints, combine figurative elements with pared-back minimalist forms to produce artworks that speak with a unique personal strength. He has developed a highly personal vocabulary using the motifs of the hand, shield,…
A series of small objects made from thin slices of timber is presented in Dayne Trower's External Walls, with an unusual degree of precision. In this study of theme and variation our attention is drawn to slight shifts in emphasis…
Originally trained as a biochemist, Nick Kallincos' works are primarily concerned with the psychological aspects of human experience. How we navigate the real world with the imagined world and how our cognitive decisions are informed by our perceptions, intuitions and…
Working in the landscape, particularly in the Top End and more recently in Nepal, the most powerful lesson I have learned is not to look just with my eyes, but to ‘ look ‘ with my ears, fingers and nose…
The commercial world is a place we inhabit, but the personal realm is where we draw breath - Samantha Simpson, Managing Director, Sam I Am Management Sam I Am represents a collection of passionate and talented photographers, each incredible in…
SORRY FOLKS- ALL SOLD OUT! Cold war served warm Part concert, part theatre, and part film score for a film that will never be made, Miss Jugoslavia and The Barefoot Orchestra is a composed theatre work inspired by Tania Bosak’s…
Survival: A conversation with the artist will be a talk between our artist in residence, Greg Ades, and host Joe Pascoe. Topics of conversation will be the content of and inspiration for Greg's current exhibition Places, including the impact of the…
Taking its name from the two parts that comprise this exhibition, TIMES/TABLES is a collaborative installation that sees Melbourne-based Katica Pedisic and Adelaide-based Rachel Hurst use an eclectic mix of relief castings, compressed charcoal drawings, paintings and installation. Disseminating their…
Come and experience a rare and unusual duo concert by two diverse and beautiful violinists. Violin for 2 is the collaboration of two talented performers, Anne Harvey-Nagl and Susannah Ng, exploring the joys of the violin duo repertoire. From the charm…
Read the four star Herald Sun review here! A one-woman fantasy about Sylvia Plath, performed by Caroline Lee. A Kind of Fabulous Hatred by Barry Dickins is a new Australian work: beautifully written, surprising, and darkly humorous. Set on the…
At the heart of Ysabelle’s body of work is a fascination with architectural structures and the desire to combine layers of occupied landscape sporadically with human presence. She constructs her works in a process of layering recognisable elements of the…
In conjunction with Heartlands Refugee Art Prize, The Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria in partnership with Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) and Melbourne Playback Theatre Company presents a unique creative performance inspired by 2013 national Refugee Week theme Restoring Hope. When…
The catalyst for Stephen’s current show came in the form of an old, wooden desktop loom; a humble item of domestic life that raised questions of the psychological and physical associations connected to the ideas and meaning of ‘home’. As…
Come and hear Flinders Quartet warming up for their forthcoming tour in an informal lunchtime concert at fortyfivedownstairs, where they are the 2013 string quartet in residence. They'll be playing some Haydn and Ravel for approx 45 mins. Entry is…
Paul Newcombe's upcoming exhibition is a culmination of his artistic ‘double life’, working in both visual arts and performance theatre in his early career. The exhibition is a continuation of Newcombe’s most recent exhibition at Melbourne’s G3 Artspace, Compositions In Paint (27 March…
Narelle’s exhibition Living China, provided solitude and escapism to its creator, as she documented a concatenation of memories of East meets West and her physical and spiritual displacement of residing in an Asian destination. The autobiographical photographic self-portraits are personalized…
For three months fortyfivedownstairs will be hosting Greg Ades as its artist in residence. Positioned in a studio space at the back of the large gallery Greg will be working in the space on material for his upcoming exhibition from…
For his first exhibition at fortyfivedownstairs, Stephen Williams continues his exploration of the tree’s role in contemporary art. In a series of multi-panel paintings, trees float in a shifting white space. Evocation and mystery have taken precedence over traditional depiction…
White Parachute is a body of work by Lisa Sewards, capturing a childhood memory of her mother’s experience in wartime Russia. It reveals the human impulse to create order and beauty in the face of displacement and the chaos of…
All the world’s a stage… / one man in his time plays many parts / His acts being seven - William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, Scene vii. The Seven Ages of Joyce, a biographical play with music,…
STOP PRESS: Vika & Linda Bull, 9 August! & Tina C, 10 August! “Constantly evolving, totally unpredictable and enormously entertaining …..setting hearts a quiver” **** THE AGE “Glory Box Paradise is so sexy and contemporary it’ll set your bouffant hair…
From writer/director Dean Bryant direct from the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Jersey Boys star Michael Griffiths IS Annie Lennox. No accent, costume or wig. Lyrics plumbed for new meaning, melodies reinterpreted, all peppered with candid musings and remembrances from the moody…
Melbourne’s very own Diva extraordinaire – the feather ruffler, the rabble rouser, the cabaret provocateur Yana Alana, takes to the stage with her first solo show (with two people in it). Between the Cracks traverses the private places and deepest…
The Graduates a group of actors, all of whom trained at The National Theatre Drama School in St Kilda, present Cruising Paradise - Tales by Sam Shepard a theatre piece based solely on a selection of Shepard’s short prose works. Loners, losers,…
Forty inspiring artworks have been shortlisted for the AMES and Multicultural Arts Victoria 2013 Heartlands Refugee Art Prize, including works by thirty-two refugee artists from Victoria. The shortlisted artwork will be on display at fortyfivedownstairs in the lead up to…