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Jemima Longworth

Take Up Space

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Unapologetically present, Jemima's oil paintings explore the needlessly insistent sexualisation of the assumed woman’s form.  They are inspired by women and non binary folk’s experiences with how they have been treated based on their bodies.

Kelvin Lau

A Home Among the Plum Trees

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Parental 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.

Students of Parkville College

our worlds, our words

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Welcome to “Our Worlds, Our Words”: an extraordinary exhibition showcasing the creative talent of students across the Parkville College campuses.

Michelangelo Russo

TRACCE – TRACES: Works 1992-2023

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

This survey exhibition spans more than four decades of Michelangelo Russo's evolving practice.

Jemima Longworth

Take Up Space

45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Unapologetically present, Jemima's oil paintings explore the needlessly insistent sexualisation of the assumed woman’s form.

Janno McLaughlin

Unsprung

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Unsprung is a play on ‘spring’ and its connotations of hope, metaphor, new life, and new beginnings.

Lindi Forde

Cadence

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

'Cadence' is a series of abstract artworks which began by delving into the allure and mysticism of indigo then moved into a brighter palette, evolving into a celebration of colour and rhythm.

Sophie Perez

Everything is Connected

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

This series of paintings and drawings from night and day are a moment in time of being truly immersed and connected to nature.

Somebody's Daughter Theatre Presents

SEE BEYOND : Artwork by Women in Victorian Prisons

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

This exhibition at fortyfivedownstairs is a selection of artworks collected over the many years of Somebody’s Daughter’s work with women in Victorian prisons.

Ksenia Shinkarenko

Honne

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Ksenia’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.

Annette Wagner

Voice Plains & Memory Depth Metres

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Focusing 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.

Featuring new and established wordsmiths

Spoken Word Circle

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

An un-ticketed evening open to anyone from the curious to the ambitious who have an interest in sharing or experiencing living, breathing literature.

Free
Shayle Flesser

Act of Love

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

A new solo show of contemporary abstract paintings by artist Shayle Flesser.

Kyle Minors

Fishtail

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Using 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.

Rebekah Stuart

Orison

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

In 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.

John Mezzini

Primavera

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Primavera showcases a collection of figurative paintings exploring themes of isolation, physical expression, and sexuality.

Featuring new and established wordsmiths

Spoken Word Circle

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

fortyfivedownstairs presents Spoken Word Circle 22 April 2023: Saturday from 4:30 - 5:30 pm admission: Free ..An open mic night for anyone with pen or keyboard and a fire in their belly for words. All are welcome. fortyfivedownstairs Spoken Word Circle In the third week of April, fortyfivedownstairs continues the widely-enjoyed Spoken Word Circle happening for writers…

Marco Luccio

CUOROSENSA: A Reverse Archaeology

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

In Cuorosensa, the artist’s bold, energetic and confident mark-making coheres into recognisable Luccio-esque themes — we see his Eiffel Tower, his Trojan Horse, his meditations on the myths and figures of classical antiquity — but closer inspection reveals a canvas of interlocking postcards with tantalising glimpses of the messages they once conveyed.

Pamela Reid

“Meet Me Under the Clocks”

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Growing up, going into the city to catch-up with friends was always, “Meet me under the clocks” at Flinders St Station. Collins Street was ‘the Paris end’ and Federation Square was the Gas & Fuel building site.

Free
Bronni Krieger

Gould: Elizabeth Acknowledged

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

In a contemporary portrayal of Elizabeth Gould, Krieger has set her against a backdrop of the Australian bush. Gentle triggers allude to her uncertainty in an unknown land, perhaps a fear of finding herself unwelcome.

Gretchen Kaye

The Portable Park

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Parks can be places of hushed silence until we allow them to speak to us. Until we halt and listen carefully to the poetry.

Oliver Bradley

Can’t See for Looking

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

The view becomes a window when a fly hits the glass; the next thought is which side is the fly on.

Kashi Ruffilli-O'Sullivan

Symptoms of Mortality

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

To create is to exercise the faith to attempt understanding. To understand is to surrender to empowerment from the intangible.

Ryley Clarke

Off the Well Worn Path

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Observing the relationship of the human condition, time, family and place Off the Well-Worn Path seeks to connect the past and present through inheritance and regeneration.

fortyfivedownstairs presents

Transcending Spaces

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

This exhibition will showcase trans artists from all mediums and challenge gendered spaces, whilst acknowledging the vital role of community in making us feel loved and safe.

Soile Paloheimo

Where the Ocean is the Sky

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

This body of artwork embraces and examines the interference that occurs when technology and nature exchange properties, rational and random patterns interpenetrate, and regular structure produces irrational effects.

Group Show

SMALL!

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

fortyfivedownstairs is excited to once again be hosting our community-sourced, small works exhibition SMALL!

Free

fortyfivedownstairs presents

Spoken Word Circle

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

This is an un-ticketed evening open to anyone from the curious to the ambitious who have an interest in sharing or experiencing living, breathing literature. The Spoken Word Circle encourages emerging and established writers of poetry, creative writing, lyricists, playwrights, novelists, biographers, diarists — all with a pen or keyboard and a fire in their belly for words are welcome.

Mike Green

M A D: Mutually Assured Destruction

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and security policy where a full scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the annihilation of both sides. It is based on the theory of deterrence, which holds that the threat of using strong weapons against the enemy prevents the enemy's use of those same weapons. As ridiculous as such a thing sounds, it is still today the modern deterrence of such an event

Free
Mike Nicholls

Bird Call

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

The works in Bird Call reflect humanity’s social conscience regarding the natural environment, and the impact we collectively impose on the ecosystem and the self through ignorance and greed.

Carolyn Roberts

Birdsong

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Informed by botanical and scientific illustration, Carolyn Roberts deconstructs her environment in order to better understand it.

Becky Phiri

View to Joy

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Phiri learned to sculpt and mix different coloured clays by decorating the wall plastering of the huts where she lived and grew up. Phiri channels and repurposes these skills in her artwork today, choosing to work instead on canvas and with acrylic mediums. Her artwork focuses on life through positivity. Through her work she seeks to engage the viewer with stimulating colours and a whimsical joy that draws from the beauty of everyday life.

Sal Cooper

Sombras

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Sombras means shadows or spectres in Spanish.  Sal encountered it as a title translation of the 1970’s song Feelings by Morris Albert. These etchings, drawings and photographic works are also attempts at translation. They express a bleak and magical landscape she once inhabited, with all its fragility and potency. 

Naomi Bishop

Subtle Realms

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Naomi Bishop’s paintings search restlessly for connections between the terrestrial and celestial spheres, between geology and astronomy, science and myth.  Intense and luminous, the paintings point to an invisible, unseen world that exists just beyond us.

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