Primavera
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaPrimavera showcases a collection of figurative paintings exploring themes of isolation, physical expression, and sexuality.
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Orison
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaIn relating closely to the term ‘Barocco’ meaning disfigured or oddly shaped pearl, the artist feels that so long as we are living, mortal beings, the openings to inspire us closer into who we are, may require the light’s counterpart of darkness to never desist.
Fishtail
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaUsing algorithmic processes and generative techniques, the artist explores the intricate patterns and shapes that emerge from natural phenomena like the flow of water, the growth of plants, and the cold majesty of mountains.
Climbers
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaPresented by Fever103 theatre and directed by Monique Marani, this new Australian play about a young Cambridge student’s discovery of the Night Climbers (a secret society that gathers on the rooftops) is a powerful and poignant exploration of the barriers women face in traditionally male institutions, and the strength it takes to dismantle them.
Act of Love
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaA new solo show of contemporary abstract paintings by artist Shayle Flesser.
Exiles
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaBloomsday in Melbourne's annual celebration of James Joyce continues with the Victorian premiere of his only play, exploring questions key to his masterpiece 'Ulysses' (1922). If love is constrained by conventional bonds of fidelity, is it love at all?
Spoken Word Circle
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaAn un-ticketed evening open to anyone from the curious to the ambitious who have an interest in sharing or experiencing living, breathing literature.
Free
Voice Plains & Memory Depth Metres
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaFocusing on a specific water system, the Murray River Floodplains network, Wagner explores a network of material and socially-engaged artworks that brings into view our individual and collective social and political memories of water.
Just a Boy, Standing in Front of a Girl
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaDirector Beng Oh and writer Jane Miller continue their acclaimed collaboration ('True Love Travels on a Gravel Road' and 'Cuckoo' at fortyfivedownstairs) with an adaptation of Medea for our times.
Honne
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaKsenia’s work aims to open an intimate dialog that transitions the viewer from their daily chaos to a remote restorative space, inviting them to look within and find the connection to the wider world.
SEE BEYOND : Artwork by Women in Victorian Prisons
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaThis exhibition at fortyfivedownstairs is a selection of artworks collected over the many years of Somebody’s Daughter’s work with women in Victorian prisons.
Far Away
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaFollowing the success of 'Punk Rock' at fortyfivedownstairs in 2019, Patalog Theatre returns with a new production of iconic playwright Caryl Churchill’s masterwork 'Far Away', directed by Cassandra Fumi and featuring Alison Whyte, Lucy Ansell, and Darcy Kent.
Everything is Connected
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaThis series of paintings and drawings from night and day are a moment in time of being truly immersed and connected to nature.
kerosene & SIRENS
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaA double bill of Benjamin Nichol’s acclaimed plays - the multi-Green Room award-winning 'kerosene', directed by Nichol and performed/co-directed by Izabella Yena, and the acclaimed 2022 Melbourne Fringe hit 'SIRENS', directed by Liv Satchell, co-created by Izabella Yena, and performed by Nichol.
Unsprung
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaUnsprung is a play on ‘spring’ and its connotations of hope, metaphor, new life, and new beginnings.
Julius Caesar
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaFollowing the success of 'King Lear' at fortyfivedownstairs in 2021, Melbourne Shakespeare Company returns with the Bard’s political thriller 'Julius Caesar', directed by Richard Murphett.
Myra in Space
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaAlice Bishop directs the premiere of this new play by Bridgette Burton ('Rhonda is in Therapy'), the tragi-comic story of Myra Foreman, a woman who missed her life on earth and is now going to live it, in space.
A Home Among the Plum Trees
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaParental and institutional erasures of diasporic heritage, and its replacement with the values of Australian middle-class suburbia and professional status, were critically examined through this multimodal approach.
Near Sighted
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaNear Sighted is an audio-visual installation comprised of six tiny interactive dioramas.
Don’t Start
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaNumbering in the thousands and piled up in no particular order, this is the stuff of nightmares for conservators.
Lebenslust
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaAn ambitious collaboration between artist an author, both inspired by time passing as revealed by movement.
One woman's memoir with the intention of not only setting a stage of life in post war Germany, but also of exposing the intergenerational secrets she has recognised in her family. The manuscript has been in development for the past decade, and the working relationship with artist Dena Ashbolt started as a result of their mutual enthusiasm for images of movement.
A Dodgeball Named Desire
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaBloomshed ('Paradise Lost' presented by Darebin Speakeasy) go up against a sub-elite AFL team in an all-out Battle Royale for the heart of an aging southern belle. Think dodgeball meets Tennessee Williams in this bold creation from one of Melbourne’s most exciting new companies.
Of Dingoes and Witch-Hunts
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia“Of Dingoes and Witch-hunts” is inspired by familiar stories of Australian women and their journey to equality; powerful metaphors of suppression, persecution and an evolving struggle that speaks to our history, our culture and values.
Orlando
fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, AustraliaThe world premiere of a bold new folk musical adaptation of Virginia Woolf's seminal novel 'Orlando', a whirlwind tale of romance and betrayal in which a young poet changes gender and lives for over 200 years. Maude Davey ('Retro Futurismus' and 'Alter Edith' at fortyfivedownstairs) directs four actor-singer-musicians in the title role.
Emerging Artist Award 2023
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaA prestigious award and exhibition showcasing the best talent from emerging artists.