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SUMMARY:Developing your Practice - a hands-on workshop series for painters
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nDeveloping your Practice – a hands-on workshop series for painters\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nled by Charlotte Ivey + Lana Daubermann\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]7 June – 18 August 2026\n\ntimes: fortnightly Sundays\, 10 am – 1pm \nadmission: $175 per session \nmaterials provided[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”BOOK INDIVIDUAL WORKSHOPS ($175 each)” color=”orange” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Ffortyfivedownstairs.sales.ticketsearch.com%2Fsales%2Fevents”][vc_btn title=”BOOK 6 WORKSHOP PACKAGE ($875)” color=”primary” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Ffortyfivedownstairs.sales.ticketsearch.com%2Fsales%2Fsubcriptions”][vc_tta_tabs shape=”round” color=”white” active_section=”1″ no_fill_content_area=”true”][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text css=””]Led by Charlotte Ivey (abstract artist) and Lana Daubermann (landscape artist)\, these workshops are designed to inspire painters from beginners to those with more experience. This series of six fortnightly workshops can be booked individually\, or as a complete set. All materials are supplied\, so all you need to do is turn up (in clothing you don’t mind getting paint on!)\, and be ready to explore. \n\n\n\nWorkshop 1: Composition\n7 June\, 10am – 1pm\nThis workshop focuses on composition in painting\, and how you can use it to create harmony\, tension\, balance\, mood and interest in your work. We’ll talk through some basic compositional ‘rules’ then we’ll take you through a series of practical exercises that encourage you to explore compositional ideas for yourself – working within or without the ‘rules’.\n\n\nWorkshop 2: Subject matter\n21 June\, 10am – 1pm\nWhat do you want to paint? What do you want your work to communicate? This workshop helps you to unpack these questions\, exploring connection to your work as an artist. It could be a starting point for you\, a deep dive into existing themes that have appeared in your work\, or perhaps a change in direction. Expect self-reflection\, group discussions\, inspiration\, and practical exercises to help you build a personalised visual diary of your practice.\n\n\nWorkshop 3: Colour choices\n5 July\, 10am – 1pm\nThis session explores colour\, providing ideas and tools to give you more confidence with using colour in your work. We’ll discuss colour as a standalone presence\, colour combinations\, the art of manipulating colour through pairings\, and the use of colour in historical and current contexts. We’ll do some simple colour selection and mixing exercises to launch your own colour wheel collection\, creating a solid colour reference for your practice\, and some fresh inspiration.\n\n\nWorkshop 4: Mark-making\n19 July\, 10am – 1pm\nMark-making\, brushwork\, texture… these all work together to create depth\, energy and movement in a painting. This session gives you the chance to expand your mark-making vocabulary as we consider how the marks we make record our own experience as well as impact the viewers experience of our work.\n\n\nWorkshop 5: Strengthening your voice\n2 August\, 10am – 1pm\nThis workshop is more of an open discussion around our work and how we can strengthen our voice and the direction of our practice. Participants are required to bring in some of their own work to talk about. The session will be mostly discussion based\, with one painting exercise included.\n\n\nWorkshop 6: Building your practice\n16 August\, 10am – 1pm\nThis session will involve open discussions about the challenges of surviving as a practicing artist. We’ll give you some practical advice\, helpful templates and real life answers to all of your questions. We’ll have a mini play session creating a pop up exhibition where you’ll be encouraged to talk about your impromptu work in a relaxed and supportive environment. Whether you want to dip your toe into the world of galleries\, connect with other painters\, or break through personal roadblocks\, this session will build confidence and independence in whatever steps you choose to take next as an artist.\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artists’ Bios” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″][vc_column_text css=””]Charlotte Ivey \nCharlotte Ivey is a visual artist born in Aotearoa/New Zealand where she studied Philosophy of Art at University of Canterbury. She now resides in Naarm/Melbourne\, Australia. \nLargely focussed on oil painting\, Charlotte’s work is led by the impulses of the body – exploring the illusory nature of psychological states\, and how they dictate our experience of external environments. She charts a territory somewhere between the traditionally ‘beautiful’ and ‘distasteful’. \nhttps://www.charlotteivey.com/  \n  \nLana Daubermann \nLana Daubermann is a landscape and still life painter living near Melbourne’s Merri Creek. She has painted since she was a child\, slowly sidestepping her way out of a career in advertising to becoming a full-time artist. \nLana primarily works in oils and enjoys the immersive qualities of paint and its endless possibilities in mark-making. Painting en plein air and direct from life is an important part of her practice as she explores the process of painting and drawing and the unique way it can connect us to the world. With a traditional background in tonalism\, her attention over the years has shifted more towards intuition and colour. \nShe exhibits and teaches regularly\, and loves to share her passion for painting with others. \nhttps://www.lanadaubermann.com/ \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Grey Gardens
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LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs theatre\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne 3000\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Now: Embodied Expression
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nNow: Embodied Expression\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nBarbara Murphy\, Erica Wagner\, Jill Anderson\, Libby Letcher\, Lyn Pool\, Mary Sullivan\, Philippa Croll & Rosemarie Reber\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]28 July – 8 August 2026\n\nopening night:\nTuesday 28 July\, 5 – 7pm \nartist talks:\nSaturday 1 August & Saturday 8 August\, 2 – 3pm \nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\n…their art holds the textures of experience while remaining vividly present… \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_btn title=”VIEW OR PURCHASE AN ARTWORK” color=”inverse” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fgallery-shop-3603.myshopify.com%2Fcollections%2Fnow-embodied-expression”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_empty_space height=”12px”]Load More[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs shape=”round” color=”white” active_section=”1″ no_fill_content_area=”true”][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text css=””]In Now: Embodied Expressions\, eight women artists offer works shaped by years of life\, practice and attention. Their art holds the textures of experience while remaining vividly present. Each work invites us into a moment where seeing and making meet. \nBarbara Murphy is exploring the aesthetic act of observation. She is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is processed over time\, revealing poetic layers of the deeply felt experience of objects in space. \nErica Wagner’s paintings and mixed media artworks\, inspired by visitations from a neighbour’s white rabbit\, reveal her lifelong passion for storytelling and curiosity about personal narratives. \nJill Anderson’s work reflects the colour\, and vitality of the places she experiences. Her latest art works emerge from time spent in a tiny\, vibrant town high in the Peruvian Andes. \nLibby Letcher continues her quest of sense making and art making as a way of thinking. Nature’s way of self organisation\, and themes of process and emergence\, guide her distinctive approach. \nUsing the human hand as a icon of generosity\, creativity and reciprocity Lyn Pool explores the notion that ‘All Flourishing is Mutual’. \nInformed by her work as historian and human rights advocate. Mary Sullivan employs layering\, erasure and fragmentation to trace threads of power woven into human stories. \nThrough the lens of archaeology\, Phillippa Croll works in abstract to reconstruct places\, people and objects in the same way artefacts are recovered and put back together to find their true narrative. \nRosemarie Reber explores figures and landscapes shaped by experience\, memory\, and imagination. She uses paint to create expressive layered imagery that invites viewers to reflect on their inner worlds.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:gallery
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SUMMARY:Marginalia
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-theatre-company”]\nPummel Squad in association with fortyfivedownstairs presents\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1764041639864{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-title”]\nMarginalia\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1764041647992{padding-bottom: 25px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-dates”]6 – 16 August 2026[/vc_column_text]book online [vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1517972522288{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes” el_class=”ffds-theatre-details”][vc_column width=”2/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1517986542329{padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #f8f8f8 !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1517986153292{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}”]\nSHOW DETAILS:\n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”40″ el_id=”ffds-theatre-divider”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1786409477541{padding-top: 5px !important;}”]Thursday 6 August – Sunday 16 August\n\npreview: Thursday 6 August\nopening night: Friday 7 August\nduration: 90 minutes\ntimes:\nTuesday to Saturday 7:30pm\nSunday 5pm \nThe show has a strict lockout\, please arrive at least 15 minutes beforehand. \nQ&A post show 11th August \nticket price: $35 – $50\nbookings: 03 9662 9966 \nwarnings: Contains adult content\, coarse language\, nudity\, prop firearms\, strobe lights and use of haze. \nNo photography or filming allowed in the theatre at all. \nSocial script available here[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1451285630039-f4b33ad9-e29065c5-b63365ad-01c60201-342dcb0a-2ec9a177-581a2513-a5c51f1f-8993a3c4-5ca5cb85-3d54189f-4d6f8ba6-b9f11573-1146″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text css=””]“I had no idea the ride I was in for.” Natasha Dyson\, Stage Door Reviews \nAcclaimed theatre company Pummel Squad are back with a new play adapted from Nikolai Gogol’s satirical short story ‘The Nose’\, exploring vanity\, shamelessness\, and the limits of satire in a world that’s beyond parody. \nOn the same day that a barber gets beaten up for a crime he didn’t commit\, Major Pepsi wakes to find his nose has vanished from his face and taken on a life of its own.  \nWhat ensues is a madcap quest to claw Pepsi’s nose back\, featuring a dazzling array of iconic characters\, the humiliating bureaucratic spider’s web of asking for help\, a monstrous police force\, and a parliament of clowns. As for the barber? Who cares about him. \nDirected by Katy Maudlin with a stellar cast including AYA\, Alexandra Aldrich and Molly Holohan\, Marginalia is a shameless punch-on about privilege\, saving face\, and cutting off your nose to spite it. \n“Pummel Squad have gained a reputation for their wild\, physical\, silly\, cartoonish\, hilarious\, idiosyncratic\, poor theatre over the last few years… I finally understand all the superlatives that have been thrown their way.” Keith Gow\, Theatre First \nMarginalia is supported by Maribyrnong City Council’s Artist Residency Program\, The Robert Salzer Foundation\, and the VCA50 Creative Development Grant. We received funding from Creative Australia through the Australian Cultural Fund. \nThanks also to Janine Tai\, Alex Fimeri\, Sholto St Cloud\, University of Melbourne Arts & Culture\, and the City of Darebin. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Cast and Creatives” tab_id=”1452941644640-19a0de81-e87a0201-342dcb0a-2ec9a177-581a2513-a5c51f1f-8993a3c4-5ca5cb85-3d54189f-4d6f8ba6-b9f11573-1146″][vc_column_text css=””]Writers: Ludomyr Kemp-Mykyta & Cooper Donald McDonald \nCast: Alexandra Aldrich\, AYA\, Molly Holohan\, Ludomyr Kemp-Mykyta\, Cooper Donald McDonald and Harry McGee \nDirector: Katy Maudlin \nProducer & Dramaturg: Mark Pritchard \nSet & Costume Designer: Savanna Wegman \nLighting Designer: Amelia Lever-Davidson \nComposer & Sound Designer: Justin Gardam \nProduction Manager & Stage Manager: Seamus Allan \nCostume Supervisor and Maker: Sophie Ness \nAssistant Stage Manager: Anneka van der Velde \nSet & Costume Design Assistant: Minami Yamasaki \nLighting Design Assistant: Dylan Talbot \nIntimacy Consultant: Kiana Daniele \nFight Choreographer: Colin Sneesby \nArtwork: Cooper Donald McDonald[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Ticket Prices and Concessions” tab_id=”1452941768731-94b426f3-57530201-342dcb0a-2ec9a177-581a2513-a5c51f1f-8993a3c4-5ca5cb85-3d54189f-4d6f8ba6-b9f11573-1146″][vc_column_text css=””]\nTicket Prices:\nPreview: $35\nFull: $50\nConcession: $40\nGroup 6+: $40\nMob tickets (discount for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island mob): $30 \nConcessions:\nPensioners/Full-time students/MEAA members \nTicket sales are subject to a booking fee of $5.00 per ticket plus any merchant charges for payments by American Express \nTicket fees are charged reluctantly. 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SUMMARY:Sometimes you want to lift peoples up. And shake them. And kiss them.
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nSal Cooper & Trudy Clutterbok\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nSometimes you want to lift peoples up. And shake them. And kiss them.\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]11 August – 22 August 2026 \nopening night: \nTuesday 11 August\, 5-7pm \nartist talk:\nSaturday 22 August\, 2pm \nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\n…explor[ing] intimate topographies of love\, memory and history… \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_btn title=”Purchase an artwork” color=”inverse” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fgallery-shop-3603.myshopify.com%2Fcollections%2Fsometimes-you-want-to-lift-peoples-up-and-shake-them-and-kiss-them”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”]Load More[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs shape=”round” color=”white” active_section=”1″ no_fill_content_area=”true”][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text css=””]curated by megan evans \nSometimes you want to lift peoples up. And shake them. And kiss them celebrates two artists who have been friends and colleagues for several decades and presents a continuing dialogue between their respective studio practices. \nBoth artists independently explore intimate topographies of love\, memory and history. These explorations raise questions of how certain objects\, notions and connections might exist outside of human understanding and how the gaps between intention and execution and between execution and reception leave marks and traces over time. \nThe title of the show speaks of an aspiration to share artwork that moves others.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artists’ Bios” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″][vc_column_text css=””]Trudy Clutterbok\nTrudy Clutterbok makes space for people who have complicated feelings about themselves and life. She does this by making works on paper as part of her studio practice and in the setting of her psychoanalytic practice. Since 1984 she has made and shown drawings\, paintings and super 8 films. Since 2020 she has also focused on printmaking. She recently won the Michael Beazer Works on Paper prize. \n  \nSal Cooper \nSal Cooper is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose practice spans independent filmmaking\, hand-drawn and stop-motion animation\, installation and performance events. Her work centres on the animation of objects and drawings to explore the latent vitality of the world around us and consider how things might exist beyond human perception or understanding. Her collaborative work has given rise to a body of commissioned material that includes major theatrical/performance works\, concert pieces and music videos as well as short films. While the integration of music within the context of moving image is a central part of her practice\, Sal’s artistic output also includes expanded drawing works and sculptural pieces which she exhibits in regular solo and group shows. She has been selected as a finalist in a number of significant art prizes.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/sometimes-you-want-to-lift-peoples-up-and-shake-them-and-kiss-them/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:gallery
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260811
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260823
DTSTAMP:20260811T065329Z
CREATED:20260616T013032Z
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SUMMARY:Mark Making as Narrative
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nVictoria McCaffrey\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nMark Making as Narrative\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]11 August – 22 August 2026 \nopening night: \nTuesday 11 August\, 5-7pm\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\n…marks as memory\, marks as meaning\, marks as narrative… \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_btn title=”Purchase an artwork” color=”inverse” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fgallery-shop-3603.myshopify.com%2Fcollections%2Fmark-making-as-narrative”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″]Load More[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs shape=”round” color=”white” active_section=”1″ no_fill_content_area=”true”][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″ title=”Artist Statement”][vc_column_text css=””]Every mark tells a story. \nMark making becomes a form of narrative expression. Each line\, gesture\, or trace carries emotion\, memory\, and intention. These marks invite you to interpret\, to connect\, to complete the story in your own way. I have a narrative for every piece in this exhibition; every viewer will bring their own narrative. Every experience has a different story to tell; every story makes a different mark. \nArt has never needed to reproduce the world exactly. From the handprints on cave walls to the paintings in Lascaux\, mark making has always been a record of human presence – a narrative stretching across thousands of years. These early marks remind us that storytelling begins long before language. \nThis exhibition continues that lineage: marks as memory\, marks as meaning\, marks as narrative.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″][vc_column_text css=””]I studied printmaking at CIT 1981 – 1983\, then Art on Paper Conservation at Camberwell School of Art and Crafts\, London. 1984 – 1986. Not happy with that I went on to a Post Graduate Diploma of Art History and Film Studies\, University of Melbourne\, 2003 and a Post Graduate Diploma of Teaching\, MGSE. 2012. \nI suppose that my art really tries to counter my life. \nMy reality is chaotic\, rushing trying to organize a million things. Looking after my autistic children and the chaos that brings. The endless questioning of myself by myself and I feel everyone else. Always being judged and found wanting. Mess. \nMy work to me exudes a calm that life is lacking; I am not trying to make a strong political statement. I could on so many topics; disability\, patriarchy\, ableism\, ageism\, the environment\, the inequality in our education system\, the life expectancy gap between indigenous Australians and white Australians\, homophobia\, transphobia\, people who hates cats\, people who judge others based on petty rivalries. Even this is an incomplete list. \nI want to create works that in the first instance\, I enjoy making. To be immersed in the process. Flow. To stop and look and think\, yep\, that makes me satisfied; that I have tried\, not every piece is a success\, but they are all part of the process. \nCalmness. Soothing – not a valley of misery. I want to share the stars. A sense of belonging.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/mark-making-as-narrative/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:gallery
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260820
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SUMMARY:Cleopatra & Antony
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-theatre-company”]\nMelbourne Shakespeare Company presents\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1764136190682{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-title”]\nCleopatra & Antony by William Shakespeare\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1761713166254{padding-bottom: 25px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-dates”]20 August – 13 September 2026[/vc_column_text]book online [vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1517972522288{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes” el_class=”ffds-theatre-details”][vc_column width=”2/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1517986542329{padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #f8f8f8 !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1517986153292{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}”]\nSHOW DETAILS:\n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” el_width=”40″ el_id=”ffds-theatre-divider”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1787110606374{padding-top: 5px !important;}”]Thursday 20 August – Sunday 13 September 2026\n\npreview: Thursday 20 and Friday 21 August\nopening night: Saturday 22 August\nduration: 90 minutes no interval\ntimes:\nTuesday to Saturday 7:30pm\nSunday 5pm \nThe show begins promptly at advertised show time. Please arrive at least 15 minutes beforehand. \nIndustry Night – 1st September \nForum Night – 8th September \nticket price: $39 – $55\nbookings: 03 9662 9966 \nwarnings: TBC[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1451285630039-f4b33ad9-e29065c5-b63365ad-01c60201-342dcb0a-2ec9a177-581a2513-a5c51f1f-8993a3c4-5ca5cb85-3d54189f-4d6f8ba6-b9f15e8c-c7b5″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text css=””]Passion. Politics. Power. In August 2026\, Melbourne Shakespeare Company returns to fortyfivedownstairs with a bold new production of Shakespeare’s epic Cleopatra & Antony\, directed by Sonya Suares. \nFollowing a string of sold-out seasons\, Melbourne Shakespeare Company once again brings together a stellar cast and creative team to deliver a gripping\, modern take on this timeless tragedy. Against the backdrop of empire and ambition\, Cleopatra and Antony’s fateful romance unfolds with devastating intensity. This production blends sharp contemporary direction with Shakespeare’s rich language\, offering audiences a visceral and compelling night of theatre. \nDon’t miss this opportunity to experience one of the Bard’s greatest works brought to life by some of Australia’s most exciting artists. \nPhoto by Nick Robertson[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Cast and Creatives” tab_id=”1452941644640-19a0de81-e87a0201-342dcb0a-2ec9a177-581a2513-a5c51f1f-8993a3c4-5ca5cb85-3d54189f-4d6f8ba6-b9f15e8c-c7b5″][vc_column_text css=””]\nCAST\n\nCleopatra – Akina Edmonds\nAntony – Louis Lucente\nCharmian – Tsungirai Wachenuka\nOctavius – Damon Baudin\nPhilo/Caesarion/Eros – Amir Antoine\nIras/Octavia – Julia Hanna\nAlexas/Menas – Mikey Sakinofsky\nEnobarbus – Laura Iris Hill\nVentidius/Soldier – Damian Okulic\nPompey/Thryreus – Deep Sroa\nSoothsayer/Menecrates – Angelo Torres\nLepidus/Proculeius – Mark Yeates\nAgrippa – Jennifer Vuletic\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCREATIVES\nDirector – Sonya Suares\nAssistant Director – Kirby Lunn\nMovement & Fight Director – Thomas Royce-Hampton\nStage Manager – Molly Johnston\nSet Designer – Eloise Kent\nCostume Coordinator – Samantha Hastings\nLighting Designer – Rob Sowinski\nSound Designer – David Stewart\nProducer & Production Manager – Seamus Allan\nArtistic Director – Jennifer Sarah Dean\nAssociate Lighting Designer – Cale Dennis\n\nAssistant Stage Manager – Kade Lightfoot\nAssistant Stage Manager – Kristy Russell\nAssistant Set Designer – Zena Wang\nAssistant Set Designer – Alex Hargraves\nArtistic Secondment – Chips Jin\n\n  \n\n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Ticket Prices and Concessions” tab_id=”1452941768731-94b426f3-57530201-342dcb0a-2ec9a177-581a2513-a5c51f1f-8993a3c4-5ca5cb85-3d54189f-4d6f8ba6-b9f15e8c-c7b5″][vc_column_text css=””]\nTicket Prices:\nPreview: $39\nFull: $55\nConcession: $49\nGroup 6+: $49\nMob tickets (discount for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island mob): $39 \nConcessions:\nPensioners/Full-time students/MEAA members \nTicket sales are subject to a booking fee of $5.00 per ticket plus any merchant charges for payments by American Express \nTicket fees are charged reluctantly. As an unfunded CBD located venue\, our expenses continue to rise. If fortyfivedownstairs is to survive\, we are obliged to increase our revenue without inflicting costs on already struggling artists. Without support\, we risk losing artists or having to close our doors. We do hope for your understanding![/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][vc_empty_space]book online [/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/cleopatra-antony/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs theatre\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne 3000\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:theatre
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260825
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260906
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SUMMARY:Courage\, Colour\, Finding Me
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nBarbara Rozenes\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nCourage\, Colour\, Finding Me\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]25 August – 5 September 2026\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\n…I am fascinated by expression\, by what sits beneath the surface… \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_btn title=”PURCHASE AN ARTWORK” color=”inverse” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fgallery-shop-3603.myshopify.com%2Fcollections%2Fcolour-courage-finding-me”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″]Load More[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs shape=”round” color=”white” active_section=”1″ no_fill_content_area=”true”][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″ title=”Artist Statement”][vc_column_text css=””]For many decades my life revolved around people – listening\, helping\, advocating and caring. I spent more than thirty years volunteering within the court system and became deeply involved with a range of organisations supporting vulnerable and disadvantaged communities\, serving as an ambassador and contributing wherever I felt I could make a difference. These experiences brought immense meaning and purpose to my life. \nIn more recent years\, life shifted dramatically when my partner suffered a severe brain aneurysm. The last decade brought a very different role – that of caregiver\, advocate and companion. It was a journey filled with challenge\, devotion and resilience. Like many carers\, I found that while looking after others so much of myself was quietly put aside. \nAbove all\, my first and greatest love has always been family. Michael and I have been fortunate to build a life surrounded by love – with our two married children and their partners\, and six lively\, beautiful grandchildren who bring endless energy\, joy and colour to my world. Family has always been my anchor and remains at the centre of who I am. \nEventually I realised that somewhere beneath the responsibilities and routines\, there was another part of me patiently waiting – my inner self asking for space\, quiet and renewal. \nArt became that place. \nI attended the Victorian College of the Arts for approximately three years\, studying painting in evening classes. I loved everything about it – the energy of the students\, the stimulation of learning\, and most of all the joy of painting itself. I was honoured to be accepted as a full-time student; however\, when COVID arrived\, that path unexpectedly paused. \nWhen life gradually returned to a more normal rhythm\, I continued my artistic journey through the Victorian Artists Society\, where I have been fortunate to learn from an inspiring teacher and further develop my practice. I also completed three courses with L’Escalier\, a French art school\, through Zoom studies\, which opened new perspectives and challenged me to keep growing and experimenting. \nPainting gives me a freedom that is difficult to explain. When I paint\, I enter another world entirely. I no longer feel confined by age\, responsibility or expectation. Instead I feel like a young woman again – in my imagination I am wearing high heels\, red of course\, and a flowing red dress. There is movement\, confidence and joy. In those moments I am completely happy. \nI primarily work in oils and have developed a deep love of portraiture because faces hold endless stories. I am fascinated by expression\, by what sits beneath the surface\, and by the humanity we carry in our eyes. More recently I have also discovered a growing love for still life – finding beauty and quiet significance in ordinary objects. \nI also enjoy working in watercolour\, particularly while travelling\, where its spontaneity and ease allow me to capture moments and impressions with freedom and simplicity.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:gallery
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260825
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SUMMARY:TWIN
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nAnne Dash & Emma Dash\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nTWIN\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]25 August – 5 September 2026 \nopening night: Tuesday 25 August 2026\, 5-7pm\nwith guest speaker Professor Patrick McGorry AO \nartist talk: Saturday 5 September 2026\, 1pm \nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\n… Familiar images of sameness are revisited and subtly shifted; difference emerges within resemblance… \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_btn title=”PURCHASE AN ARTWORK” color=”inverse” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fgallery-shop-3603.myshopify.com%2Fcollections%2Ftwin”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”]Load More[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs shape=”round” color=”white” active_section=”1″ no_fill_content_area=”true”][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text css=””]Twin is a collaborative exhibition by twin sisters Anne Dash and Emma Dash. Working across painting\, embroidery and sequinned textile\, the project unfolds as a sustained inquiry rather than a series of discrete statements. Through repetition\, gesture and duration\, twinhood is approached not as duplication but as relation – shaped through closeness and exchange. \nAcross the exhibition\, attention accumulates slowly. Familiar images of sameness are revisited and subtly shifted; difference emerges within resemblance. Gesture\, memory and perspective become sites where individuality and reciprocity are held in sustained tension. Hand-sewn sequins recur as both material and metaphor – registering time and labour while resisting the speed and frictionless clarity of digital imagery. Reflection remains unstable\, images shifting with light\, movement and proximity. \nThe exhibition resists immediacy and spectacle. Meaning develops through closeness and return\, producing a quiet disorientation in which looking becomes exchange. Rather than proposing resolution\, the works hold complexity\, thought and contradiction open.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artists’ Bios” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″][vc_column_text css=””]Anne Dash \nAnne has loved working with textile since a young age. When completing her Fine Art Degree at Monash University\, Anne further explored and developed her signature\, emergent and highly intricate practice. Inspired by eighteenth century anatomical plates. Anne combined sequins\, patchwork\, and paint into richly layered compositions. These works led Anne to winning the Mama Duke Painting Prize at the Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition. \nAnne’s current practice focuses on twins\, investigating identity\, duality and the complex relationship between self and reflection. Through sewing sequins and textiles\, Anne uses material as metaphor for mirroring\, response\, and connection. Utilising the slow and meticulous process of tambour beading\, Anne’s work creates a space for contemplation\, new ways of seeing and understanding the movement and change in relationship with self and others. \n  \nEmma Dash  \nEmma Dash is a Melbourne-based artist working across painting and textiles. Her recent practice reflects on the experience of twinhood\, emergence from and the complexities of shared identity. Working collaboratively with her twin sister\, Anne Dash\, she explores intimacy\, mirroring\, identity\, and differentiation through layered material processes and figurative imagery. Her work is informed by an ongoing interest in relational psychology\, perception\, and the way identity emerges through proximity\, the traces left by prolonged relation and continual exchange.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Events” tab_id=”1784798129293-2bef1bc8-51e7″][vc_column_text css=””]Opening Night\nTuesday 25 August 2026\, 5pm – 7pm\nwith guest speaker Professor Patrick McGorry \n  \nArtist Talk\nSaturday 5 September 2026\, 1pm[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/twin/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:gallery
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