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  • GLOW

    Jasper Ly & Peter Dumsday

    Jasper Ly (oboe) and Peter Dumsday (piano) present GLOW – a concert celebrating the contemporary sound world of Melbourne composers.

  • Everything Else

    David Maxwell

    David Maxwell’s forthcoming exhibition Everything Else reflects on the visual cycle of life through graphic links in time, pushing together the connections between feelings and happenings in an evolving world.

  • Venus Virgin Tomarz

    Robert Earp & Venus Tomarz

    The audacious and electrifying conceptual photography of Robert Earp focuses on
    the ‘surreal realness’ of transgendering with Venus Virgin Tomarz – Named after
    Earp’s ‘divalicious’ collaborator and muse.

  • GARDENS OF EVIL

    Venus Virgin Tomarz

    o Venus Virgin Tomarz GARDENS OF EVIL 24 May - 4 June 2022 hours: Tues - Fri: 11am-5pm Sat: 11am-3pm admission: Free ..It all started with art and heart. A growth through the wonders of the free mind. Venus always saw the pinnacle of acceptance would come from those who adore the oomph of the…

  • Cotton and Silk

    Benjamin Nichol

    A reading of the new play 'Cotton and Silk' by Benjamin Nichol (LOVE), directed by Stephen Nicolazzo, and featuring Jennifer Vuletic and Brigid Gallacher.

  • A woman's, face looking down, a computer's motherboard superimposed on her face and in the background.

    Sacellum

    Chris Orr

    Sacellum by Chris Orr is an infected confection of the sacred and technology. A melancholic wink at consumerism and spirituality. A dialogue between a certain past and an uncertain future.

  • After the Fire

    Gavin Brown

    From the end of 2019 into the beginning of 2020, bushfires ravaged much of the country. The aftermath left a devastating impact on people and land. Thoughts of recovery seemed far from our control. To make sense of it all, the Gavin Brown created a body of work, and titled it After the Fire - an attempt to find beauty amidst the chaos of the bushfire crisis.

  • Art and Life, Domestic and Sublime

    Coady Green and Linda Barcan

    Pianist Coady Green and mezzo-soprano Linda Barcan perform two major song cycles by Melbourne-based composers Linda Kouvaras and Katy Abbott.

  • The Herring Island Piano Sonata

    Coady Green and Tiriki Onus

    The world premiere of Linda Kouvaras' new work, the Herring Island Sonata for Piano and Narrator, performed by pianist Coady Green and narrator Tiriki Onus.

  • Crucible

    Group show featuring: Robyn Rich, Angela Hayes, Lisa Sewards, James Yuncken, Braden Howard, Mike Wedd, Janno McLaughlin, Annette Fitton, Madeline Bishop & James Hale.

    Crucible is a fortyfivedownstairs group exhibition responding to the triumphs and tribulations that the artistic community faced during the 2020-21 pandemic. Bringing together ten artists, the exhibition explores the spectrum of effects that the pandemic had on artistic practices.

  • Myra in Space

    Bridgette Burton

    A reading of the new play 'Myra in Space' by Bridgette Burton, directed by Alice Bishop and featuring Kelly Nash.

  • Kup Murri

    Maryanne Sam

    A reading of the new play 'Kup Murri', written and directed by Maryanne Sam, and featuring Glenn Shea, Kamarra Bell-Wykes, Corey Saylor-Brunskill, Anna Burgess, Syd Brisbane and Carissa Lee.

  • Imperishables: Sculptures and Paintings

    Filip Toth

    The artist combines metal and stone forms, suggesting the frailty of human existence, or powerful monolithic shapes, tarnished by the patina of time, in an effort to indicate “visibly or invisibly” fragments of human existence.

  • The Book of Fabulas & Scented Echoes

    Drasko Boljevic & Eleonor Palacio

    As Dr Bernhard Sachs describes it “The meeting of this with the intense literary tradition of its South American corollary in Melbourne proposes a sophisticated larrikin poetic”.

  • Mungo

    Susan Wald

    Fortyfivedownstairs presents Mungo, a solo painting exhibition by Susan Wald, as part of the 2022 gallery program.

  • Vele

    Michelangelo Russo & Jennifer Jabu

    MICHELANGELO RUSSO & JENNIFER JABU Vele 2 August - 13 August 2022 hours: Tuesday - Friday: 12pm - 6pm Saturdays: 12pm - 4pm Tuesday and Friday evenings: 6pm - 8pm admission: Free The elements of composition are both rigid and fluid, angular and curvy, resulting in endless possibilities. Vele (pl) in Italian means sails. The…

  • To The Promised Land

    Margaret Gold

    They risk everything for a chance of freedom.  How many boats are never seen.  How many people are never fished from the sea.

  • My Neighbours’ Gardens

    Aloma Treister

    The flowers and plants that Treister choose to paint spoke to her on a personal level, symbolizing the months of lockdown, and a celebration of the beauty that only nature can produce.

  • Drifted

    Alison Russell

    Her imaginary landscapes are triggered by an enduring fascination with textures, patterns and life forms in the natural world. Ambiguous, otherworldly themes suggestive of subterranean and underwater worlds, forests and biomorphic forms evoke curiosity and wonder.

  • 1863: The Birth of Impressionism

    Songmakers Australia

    Songmakers Australia - soprano Merlyn Quaife AM, bass-baritone Nicholas Dinopoulos and pianist Andrea Katz - perform a program of stunning French repertoire by Debussy, Fauré, Duparc, Chausson and Poulenc.

  • Crawling Through the Dust of Life

    Richard Besley

    With densely textured surfaces creating movement and space, the work is suspended somewhere between the metaphysical and material. While referring to the natural world the images ultimately evoke otherworldliness and suggest an internal process of revelation.

  • Drift

    Ming Chung

    “Drift” explores the state of mind where our consciousness drifted away to a difference place, wondering, imaging, and perhaps just thinking of nothing.  Mind drifting breaks you away from the present moment and free your mind to a different world.

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    15 Minutes from Anywhere

    A reading of the new play 'post' by Jane Miller, directed by Beng Oh and featuring Keith Brockett, Steve Gome, Kelly Nash, Marissa O’Reilly, Sonya Suares and Glenn van Oosterom.

  • Crocodiles

    Elbow Room

    A reading of the new play 'Crocodiles' by Vidya Rajan, directed by Marcel Dorney.

  • Spoken Word Circle

    Featuring new and established wordsmiths.

    A special one-off evening of spoken word, art and ideas.

  • Perspective

    Rory Fink

    This mixed media series looks at the way in which society lives under the power and influence of the various media outlets, whose published material has decidedly far-reaching effects on how we think, look and feel.

  • Mycalicoes

    Gyungju Chyon, John Sadar, Rebecca Nel, Yurika McGuire

    Unlike industrially processed materials such as timber, steel and plastics, a living material such as mycelium is unpredictable and hard to control. Mycelium is sensitive to its surrounding temperature, humidity, and light.

  • Robbie Melville’s smallCHESTRA

    Robbie Melville's smallCHESTRA

    Featuring Melbourne jazz veterans Ronny Ferella (drums), Tamara Murphy (bass), Robbie Melville (guitar), Gideon Brazil (tenor saxophone, alto flute) and Flora Carbo (alto saxophone/bass clarinet), and classical cellist Zoe Knighton, the smallCHESTRA creates a spectacular range of dynamic and timbral possibilities in a relatively small package, and blurs the barriers between contemporary folk, jazz and classical.

  • Emerging Artist Award 2022

    presented by fortyfivedownstairs Emerging Artist Award 2022 27 September - 8 October 2022 hours: Tuesday - Friday: 12pm - 6pm Saturdays: 12pm - 4pm Tuesday and Friday evenings: 6pm - 8pm admission: FreeView Exhibition Onlinefortyfivedownstairs presents the eighth annual Emerging Artist Award 2022. It is a pleasure to announce that fortyfivedownstairs will once again be filled with the work…

  • Spoken Word Circle

    Featuring new and established wordsmiths

    fortyfivedownstairs presents Spoken Word Circle Tuesday 4th October 2022 6pm - 8pm 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 first week of October, fortyfivedownstairs continues the widely-enjoyed Spoken Word Circle happening for writers of every…

  • Subtle Realms

    Naomi Bishop

    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.