Residue
Residue pieces together the paintings and installations of Greek-born artist Georgia Simitzis and Chinese-born artist Chaohui Xie.
Events Calendar
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New York Postcards & Immaginario
An exhibition of artwork on original postcards from New York, and new monotypes in the Small Gallery
On Beauty
A series of paintings and works on paper exploring the notion of beauty and transience with references to antiquity and mythology.
I’m not a Robot
A David Jones textile designer-turned painter presents a series of work exploring the line, tone, shape and colour of the world she sees.
UNFOLDING
Unfolding introduces elements of dimension, light and shadow into pastel drawings through precise folding and embossing of parts of the paper.
Primal
An exhibition of oil paintings exploring the palpable anger in response to current economic uncertainty, environmental degradation, diminishing resources and inequality.
The Power of Pattern
Gavin Brown presents a body of new paintings exploring the surreal, the unimaginable and the unexpected.
Conventicle
An unorthodox assemblage of everyday detritus, ephemera and artist photography blanketed in classical engravings and stencils.
Complex Life
Two friends and artists use their artistic processes to explore their positions in the world, both in a physical, environmental and emotional manner.
E lascia dir le genti
E lascia dir le genti, captures fragments of social interaction. The moment when inhibitions are dropped, and subjects are exposed in their most raw and vulnerable state, where we are confronted by the beauty of the immediate.
Emerging Artist Award 2019
fortyfivedownstairs is excited to present the fifth annual Emerging Artist Award in 2019.
A Dangerous Smile
A Dangerous Smile not only documents a life that has been lived for centuries, but also reflects upon the very modern point at which the pursuit of inner peace intersects with the pursuit of politics.
The Last Days of Summer
Peter Hyatt combines sublime photographic imagery and digital art to create a richly invented tableaux. Familiar yet dreamlike, his work captures the collision of people, places and nature, frequently as disparate forces.
After the Archive: Park Life
Amanda Johnson’s paintings question the fate of the public garden in a context of global warming. How has our physical and cultural encounter with the public garden changed?
TERRAFORM
A photographic manipulation experiment representing the culmination of countless hours of exploration, both literal and artistic.
CARTONI: containers contained
A series of encaustic paintings focusing on structure, minimalism and abstraction, utilising the everyday material of corrugated cardboard.
Meteorites from Earth
A series of sculptures and drawings as a result of the artist's fascination with the intersections of space, nature and science.
Since You’ve Been Gone
A series of oil paintings that are based on locations around the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, focusing on old homes, gardens and trees. It won't always be like this.
Shop Talk
A unique installation of drawings and painting exploring community life and suburbia through the interpretation and recreation of quirky and vibrant shop front windows.
Sex of Nature
A photographic series exploring areas of wilderness in Tasmania and Nepal. The stark and isolated landscapes invoke feelings of loneliness and awe, and the notion that the natural environment is harsh and unforgiving.
Water Bending Off A Rock
This series of photographs represents the endless flow of the water cycle and how water continues on a path, always adapting to its surrounds on its endeavours.
Dancing from the Dark, Looking for the Light
An exhibition of new monotypes, paintings and etchings inspired by The Australian Ballet.
Mrs Larritt
An exhibition of lithographs and drawings celebrating the caring role and early married life of Maggie Larritt, wife of the first Surveyor of Bendigo. This body of work acknowledges the singularly European view of the colonial migrants as they lived on Dja Dja Wurrung land.
Living Water
Fuelled by a passion for ink and paper, and intrigued by the rich visual languages of Chinese brush painting and calligraphy, Living Water is Ella Whateley’s response to full immersion in Taiwanese culture during an inspirational residency at National Taiwan University in Arts (NTUA) in 2018.
Wilderness: A Natural Response
Renowned contemporary watercolourist Terry Swann’s Wilderness: A Natural Response, is a unique perspective of the contrasting landscapes of remote Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
Once was Paradise
A series of oil paintings highlighting the artist's passion for the natural environment and horror at seeing the ongoing effects of climate change.
SMALL! 2019
The second annual community-based small works exhibition at fortyfivedownstairs.
Glowry
A glow-in-the-dark installation commenting on ideas about identity, colonialism and adventure.
The Delusions Run Thick
Mark Chu embraces the power of fantasy, hollow ambition, and absurdity, in a series of large scale, self-portraits depicting the plural nature of who or what a person can (and cannot) be.
reconstructed landscapes
Annie Burns' paintings engage with the sublime natural world and our relationship with it in the face of destruction.
Sensitive Sweethearts
Sensitive Sweethearts is an art exhibition for those who wear their heart on their sleeve.
1.5 Degrees
A group exhibition responding to the challenge of the global community to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. It is about the science of climate change, communicated in diverse and intriguing ways.
give me shelter
An exhibition of screenprints based on landscapes that were noticed, photographed, and forgotten. Memories are captured, but the viewer moves on. Changes that occur to the landscape are out of sight and mind, and missed. But the environment is screaming for us to take notice.
Between Horizons
A collection of new and delightfully peculiar small sculptures. They are fantastical watercraft, knotted, woven, and welded together with materials gathered on the artist's travels around Gippsland.
Microcosmographia
Microcosmographia brings together five artists working with themes of science and nature, the earth bound and geology, cosmology, mythology and universal/cosmos sciences.