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Emerging Artist Award 2021

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2021 submissions open!

William Eicholtz

Greedy Pixiu

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Greedy Pixiu are a pan Asian chimera to accompany us back from a difficult pandemic year.

James Grant

Retreat

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

An exhibition of paintings exploring local landscapes and private domestic environments which have become increasingly important spaces of both refuge and of tension over the last year.

Michelangelo Russo & Jennifer Jabu

cCORDA

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

cCORDA represents a journey through the meditative motion of cutting and consequently assembling cardboard, jute and hexcel paper within a confined, framed space. The essence of the composition is fully revealed when finally embalmed with chosen encaustic colour.

Janno Mclaughlin

Making Nonsense

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

An unapologetic, wildly exaggerated, absurdist conflagration of installation, large- and small-scale paintings, paper works, textiles and hand-sewn soft sculptures with bold explosions of colour.

Margaret Manchee

Iteration

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Iteration presents two series of Margaret Manchee’s recent work: etchings using Spirograph; and mixed-media paintings and collages.

Nel ten Wolde

A Pilgrim’s Progress

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

A series of paintings and digital collage works exploring the discarded and lost clothes that crossed the artist's path on the pilgrimage trails she has covered throughout Europe, especially Spain.

Joan Blond , Aliki K , Bev Plowman , Jo Carroll

elemental

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

A collection of new paintings exploring facets of landscape and abstraction by Joan Blond, Aliki K, Bev Plowman and Jo Carroll.

Madeleine Joy Dawes

all / most / some / none

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Utilizing a system whereby the ruled grid becomes the vessel for a lexicon of hand-drawn symbols, the principal theme in Madeleine Joy Dawes' work is the utilization of iterative mark making as a temporal site to record measured and psychological time.

Lisa Sewards

SHORT STORIES

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

With a great love for books, Lisa Sewards explored short stories during Melbourne’s 2020 COVID-19 restrictions. Each book turned into a capsule of reflection and hope and has led to this new series of printmaking and painting works that celebrates the short story genre in Australian literature.

Mike Reed

3000 Streets

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

3000 Streets is the photographic trace of Mike Reed’s near and far wanderings in the worlds’ arteries, always with a lean towards the unusual and quirky.

Sue Beyer

Transformer

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Transformer explores ideas relating to liminal space through the transformation of well known Australian landscape paintings.

Angela Hayes, Lauren Joffe, Danielle Segal, Ann Knights, Pauline Meade, Rosanna Caldwell

Seasons

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Through the ceramic medium, this exhibition explores the concept of ‘Seasons’ in relation to individual life experiences and the shifts that seasonality and change presents.

Alison Percy

QUIETUDE of the land, the figure and the flower

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

A series of landscape, figurative and floral paintings celebrating contemplative, gentle and meditative actioned marks.

Cally Lotz

Stiff Upper Lip

fortyfivedownstairs online gallery VIC, Australia

An analytical still life painting project that explores complex psychological states such as containment, austerity and isolation.

Peta Cross

Pochades 2010-2020

45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Peta Cross presents a series of approximately 400 small Pochades created between 2010 – 2020. Pochade painting has been the practice of many painters since the Impressionists. They are quickly executed sketches in oil paint.

David Hirst

Faceless People

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

David Hirst traps emotions, memories and ideas in his abstracted painting and sculpture, to be shared with or re-interpreted by others.

Black Gin, Irene Wellm, Janice Gobey, Naomi Bishop, Rachel Hazzard

Microcosmographia

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Microcosmographia brings together five artists working with themes of science and nature, the earth bound and geology, cosmology, mythology and universal/cosmos sciences.

Jan Learmonth

Between Horizons

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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.

Paula McLoughlin

give me shelter

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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.

Art Aviso

1.5 Degrees

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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.

curated by Tegan Iversen

Sensitive Sweethearts

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Sensitive Sweethearts is an art exhibition for those who wear their heart on their sleeve.

Annie Burns

reconstructed landscapes

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Annie Burns' paintings engage with the sublime natural world and our relationship with it in the face of destruction.

Mark Chu

The Delusions Run Thick

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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.

Emilie Walsh

Glowry

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

A glow-in-the-dark installation commenting on ideas about identity, colonialism and adventure.

presented by fortyfivedownstairs

SMALL! 2019

The second annual community-based small works exhibition at fortyfivedownstairs.

Diane Keating

Once was Paradise

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

A series of oil paintings highlighting the artist's passion for the natural environment and horror at seeing the ongoing effects of climate change.

Terry Swann

Wilderness: A Natural Response

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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.

Ella Whateley

Living Water

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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.

Catherine Pilgrim

Mrs Larritt

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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.

Debra Luccio

Dancing from the Dark, Looking for the Light

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

An exhibition of new monotypes, paintings and etchings inspired by The Australian Ballet.

JACK TAR and Company

Water Bending Off A Rock

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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.

Thomas K Lee

Sex of Nature

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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.

Alex Zubryn

Shop Talk

fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

A unique installation of drawings and painting exploring community life and suburbia through the interpretation and recreation of quirky and vibrant shop front windows.

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