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  • SMALL! 2019

    presented by fortyfivedownstairs

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

  • Punk Rock by Simon Stephens

    Patalog Theatre Co.

    From British power-house playwright, Simon Stephens, Punk Rock is a violent and urgent examination of contemporary adolescence.

  • Glowry

    Emilie Walsh

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

  • The Delusions Run Thick

    Mark Chu

    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.

  • As One

    Gertrude Opera

    One of the major works of American opera in the 21st century has its Australian premiere as part of the 2020 Midsumma Festival.

  • The New Impromptu Quartet

    A performance exploring a world of styles and influences from jazz to Latin, funk, and soul.

  • reconstructed landscapes

    Annie Burns

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

  • Sensitive Sweethearts

    curated by Tegan Iversen

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

  • Belinda Hanne Reid: Love, Rorem

    Belinda Hanne Reid & Coady Green

    From the extravagances of 1950s Paris, to the devastation of New York in the 80s and 90s, composer and diarist Ned Rorem captured the essence of what it meant to be an artist and in love.

  • Shake ‘n’ Blake

    Steve Gome

    Shake ‘n’ Blake - The Sonnets of Innocence and Experience. Blending the Good Works of Williams Shakespeare and Blake into a Lesson in Love in all its aspects.

  • 1.5 Degrees

    Art Aviso

    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

    Paula McLoughlin

    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.

  • The Curtain

    fortyfivedownstairs

    Daniel Keene returns to fortyfivedownstairs with The Curtain, written with his sharp ear for poetry and play.

  • Between Horizons

    Jan Learmonth

    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

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

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

  • Visions

    Collide

    The Collide ensemble returns to fortyfivedownstairs with an energetic offering of colourful French delicacies.

  • Shepherd on the Rock

    Duo Eclettico and Linda Barcan

    A concert of works for saxophone, piano and mezzo-soprano, including a transcription of Schubert’s late masterpiece, and a selection of beautiful original works.

  • Gods and Demons

    Yiyun Gu

    From 'Pictures at an Exhibition' to 'Java Suite', from 'Islamey' to Piazzolla’s Tango, Chinese born pianist Yiyun Gu brings fantastic gods and demons together in a concert of magic and high imagination.

  • John & Jen

    SONDER Theatre Company

    A truly original musical set against the background of a changing world - a story about connections, commitments and the healing of the human heart.

  • Barry Jones & Friends Celebrate the Arts

    fortyfivedownstairs online event

    Join us to celebrate the 88th birthday one of Australia’s most remarkable men, Barry Jones AC in an online performance curated and hosted by board member Julian Burnside AO.

  • Faceless People

    David Hirst

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

  • Pochades 2010-2020

    Peta Cross

    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.

  • Visions of Love Online Exhibition

    Marisa Mu

    Visions of Love by Marisa Mu is the third solo exhibition of fortyfivedownstairs’ online Fragments series, and the final Fragment of 2020. The exhibition is a series of works on paper, all created recently as an act of defiance against the darkness enveloping us during Melbourne’s second lockdown.

  • Solicitude

    Duo Eclettico

    What a way to welcome live performance back to the venue! A stunning program, performed by Coady Green and Justin Kenealy, featuring new commissions, Australian premieres and a sneak preview of a special new work.

  • Stiff Upper Lip

    Cally Lotz

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

  • Unity

    Collide

    Collide will share with you their blend of colour, fervour, and spirit, with works of Mozart, Glinka, Milhaud

  • Shostakovich and Schumann

    Rathdowne Quartet with Tamara Smolyar

    Kyla Matsuura-Miller, Madeleine Jevons, Molly Collier O’Boyle & Harry Ward are joined by virtuoso pianist Tamara Smolyar for one of Shostakovich’s best known chamber works, the G minor Piano Quintet.

  • Burn This by Lanford Wilson

    16th Street Actors Studio

    Two unlikely strangers are brought together by a mysterious death, their connection sparks a chemistry too explosive to ignore

  • Seasons

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

    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.

  • Transformer

    Sue Beyer

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

  • The Anniversary

    Clare Bartholomew & Daniel Tobias

    Multi award-winning creators of Die Roten Punkte, Clare Bartholomew and Daniel Tobias are back with a brand new murderously funny physical farce.

  • 3000 Streets

    Mike Reed

    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.