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SUMMARY:Emerging Artist Award 2026
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nfortyfivedownstairs presents\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nEmerging Artist Award 2026\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]14 July – 24 July 2026\n\nopening night: \nTuesday 14 July\, 5 – 7pm \nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\n… bold new work from some of Australia’s most exciting early-career artists… \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_btn title=”VIEW 2026 FINALISTS’ ARTWORKS” color=”black” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fgallery-shop-3603.myshopify.com%2Fcollections%2Femerging-artist-award-2026″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″]2025 EAA 1st Prize Winner: Steph Everett\, 'backseat of a commodore'\, glass beads\, thread\, copper rod\, 43 x 75 cm.'Emerging Artist Award 2026'\, opening night\, installation image. Photographed by George Jefford. 2026 EAA 1st Prize Winner: Ivan Lengyel\, 'P(destiny | origin)'\, Multi-screen interactive digital installation with three 7-inch screens\, LiDAR audience tracking\, generative audio\, microcomputer and custom aluminium support\, 35 × 150 × 30 cm. Photographed by George Jefford. 2026 EAA 2nd Prize Winner: Ella Pininta\, 'Everything Led Me Here'\, oil on canvas\, \n61 x 45.5 x 4 cm. Photographed by George Jefford. 2026 EAA People's Choice Award Winner: Emily Tian (@etianart)\, ‘Love\, a family gathering that lives only in my mind’\, Cyanotype on silk panels\, red thread\, bamboo support\, 125 × 89 cm. Photographed by George Jefford. 'Emerging Artist Award 2026' installation image. Photographed by George Jefford. 'Emerging Artist Award 2026' installation image. Photographed by George Jefford. 'Emerging Artist Award 2026' installation image. Photographed by George Jefford. 'Emerging Artist Award 2026' installation image. Photographed by George Jefford. 'Emerging Artist Award 2026' installation image. Photographed by George Jefford. 'Emerging Artist Award 2026' installation image. Photographed by George Jefford. 'Emerging Artist Award 2026' installation image. Photographed by George Jefford. 'Emerging Artist Award 2026' installation image. Photographed by George Jefford. EAA 2026 Winners: Ivan Lengyel\, 1st Prize\, and Ella Pininta\, 2nd Prize. Photographed by George Jefford. [/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=””]fortyfivedownstairs is proud to present our 11th annual Emerging Artist Award. \nThe Emerging Artist Award at fortyfivedownstairs is a proven catalyst for recognition and professional development\, while giving audiences the opportunity to discover bold new work from some of Australia’s most exciting early-career artists. \nThis year\, the work of 31 finalists from across Australia is on display from 14–24 July 2026 across both our gallery spaces at 45 Flinders Lane. \nThe prize recipients of the $3000 prize pool were announced at opening night on Tuesday 14 July. Special thanks to guest judge Fran Clark\, Director and Co-founder of ARC ONE Gallery. \nThe First Prize of $2\,000 was awarded to Ivan Lengyel for P(destiny | origin). \nThe Second Prize of $1\,000 was awarded to Ella Pininta for Everything Led Me Here. \nIn addition to their cash prizes\, both winners will be given the opportunity to present solo exhibitions at fortyfivedownstairs in 2027. \nSpecial mentions: Wood Song by Aliandra Nasrun for\, Loves a cig by Codee Mac for\, and Just As Long As We’re Together by Hamish Basset. \nCongratulations to Emily Tian\, who was awarded the People’s Choice Award for Love\, a family gathering that lives only in my mind. Emily was presented with a prize pack generously donated by Liquitex and Jasart at the closing night. \nThe Emerging Artist Award 2026 is supported by Equity Trustees Charitable Foundation – The Cuming Bequest\, Future Leaders\, MSC Signs\, Liquitex and Jasart.  \n              [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Finalists” tab_id=”1782703086368-73766ddc-7479″][vc_column_text css=””]Aleksander Morris \nAliandra Nasrun \nAnna Lloyd-Parker \nBevan Lan \nCecilia Jacobs \nCodee Mac \nElla Pininta \nEmily Tian \nEmily Yeonsoo Jung \nEmma Kiley \nFrankie Pan \nGrace Mitchell \nHamish Bassett \nInyoung Lee \nIsabel Margarita Morales Poblete \nIvan Lengyel \nJesse Birthisel \nJoseph Tullmann \nKasia Dudkiewicz \nKatya Ryzhikh \nKyah Barry \nMaddie Hepner \nMeghan Black \nMei Wah Williams \nMichael Shin \nOlive Bly \nOlivia Brice \nPatrick Chen \nSayuni Wickramsinghe \nSusannah Collins \nTara Howe[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Conditions of Entry” tab_id=”1781576704497-fbdb72e1-0174″][vc_column_text css=””]\n\nEntry is open to artists residing in Australia who are in the early stages of their career\, defined as having held no more than three solo exhibitions\, not being represented by a gallery\, and not having won or been shortlisted for any major art prizes or awards\, or possessing equivalent professional experience.\nPrevious finalists in the Emerging Artist Award are not eligible to enter.\nArtists may submit a maximum of two entries\, with one artwork per entry. Artworks must be complete at the time of submission.\nThe entry fee is $30 per artwork. Entry fees are non-refundable.\nEntrants must complete the online application form and submit: an artist statement/supporting statement\, a current artist CV\, up to three images of the artwork. Total uploaded image files must not exceed 9MB.\nAny use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the production of submitted artwork must be clearly disclosed at the time of entry\, including the extent and nature of its use.\nSelection of finalist artworks will take into consideration the gallery’s capacity to accommodate installation requirements. There are no artwork size limits. \nAll media are eligible for submission. Artists exhibiting time-based\, digital\, installation\, or non-standard works must provide all equipment\, materials\, hardware\, and clear installation instructions required for display. fortyfivedownstairs will supply standard installation hardware only\, including nails and screws.\nAll costs associated with the delivery\, freight\, shipping\, insurance\, installation\, and collection of artworks are the responsibility of the artist. All artworks must arrive in sound and exhibition-ready condition.\nAll shortlisted artworks must be available for sale. A commission of 20% will be retained by fortyfivedownstairs on all sales.\nBy submitting an entry\, entrants acknowledge their availability to meet the following dates:\n\n\nSubmission deadline: Friday 12 June 2026\, 5:00pm\nNotification of finalists: Friday 26 June 2026\nArtwork delivery: Saturday 11 July 2026\, 12:00pm–4:00pm\nExhibition dates: 14–24 July 2026\nCollection of unsold works: Saturday 25 July 2026\, 12:00pm–4:00pm\n\n\nThe judge’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.\nThe final determination of eligibility and suitability for exhibition rests with fortyfivedownstairs. fortyfivedownstairs reserves the right to withdraw or refuse works deemed unsuitable for display\, installation\, safety\, or logistical reasons.\nWhile all reasonable care will be taken in handling artworks\, fortyfivedownstairs accepts no responsibility for loss or damage.\nBy entering the award\, entrants grant fortyfivedownstairs permission to reproduce images of submitted and shortlisted artworks for promotional\, publicity\, educational\, and archival purposes\, with artist attribution.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Check out past Emerging Artist Awards” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Ffortyfivedownstairs.com%2Femerging-artist-award%2F”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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SUMMARY:And What Will People Say?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-theatre-company”]\nBCD Theatre presents\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1783834867329{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-title”]\nAnd What Will People Say? by Amani Mahmoud\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1763694336841{padding-bottom: 25px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-dates”]9 – 12 July 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_1783592693106{padding-top: 5px !important;}”]Thursday 9 – Sunday 12 July 2026\n\nopening night: Thursday 9 July\nduration: 70 minutes\ntimes:\nThursday – Friday 7:30pm\nSaturday 6pm\nSunday 2pm & 5pm \nplease arrive promptly\, this show has a strict lockout \nticket price: $45 – $55\nbookings: 03 9662 9966 \nwarnings: This production contains theme of domestic violence[/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-b9f1a409-96b2″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text css=””]\nA powerful fusion of Indian dance\, music\, and poetry\, this immersive theatre work confronts domestic violence with raw honesty\, cultural depth\, and the courage to discuss uncomfortable truths. Winner of two Sydney Fringe 2025 awards — Best in Category (Spoken Word) and Best Emerging Producer — this acclaimed production has moved audiences across communities and sparked vital conversations. \nWhat happens when silence is survival — but speaking out is freedom? \nAnd What Will People Say? is an electrifying 60-minute immersive theatre experience that blends Indian dance\, original music\, and spoken word to explore the unspoken realities of domestic violence within families and communities. Told through the eyes of a mother and her children\, this powerful piece invites audiences into a deeply personal journey of love\, fear\, shame\, and resilience. \nRooted in real experiences and shaped by the voices too often left out of the conversation\, the production challenges cultural stigma and generational silence. It exposes the hidden stories that echo behind closed doors—those shaped not only by violence itself\, but by the social pressures that keep people quiet. It is a story of pain but also of courage\, hope\, and radical truth-telling. \nThis is more than theatre. This is a conversation our communities need to have. And it starts here.[/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-b9f1a409-96b2″][vc_column_text css=””]Producer and Director: Kersherka Sivakumaran \nWriter: Amani Mahmoud \nDancer: Gayatri Krishnamurthy \nVeena Player: Hari Sivanesan  \nNarrator: Khema de Silva \nPercussionist: Pirashanna Thevarajah \nViolinist: Narthana Kanagasabai \nHero image: Phil Erbacher[/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-b9f1a409-96b2″][vc_column_text css=””]\nTicket Prices:\nFull: $55\nConcession: $45\nGroup 6+: $45\nEARLYBIRD: $49 \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]
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SUMMARY:Fledge Radiance
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nA group show curated by Tré Turner and E. Salmon\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nFledge Radiance\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]30 June – 11 July 2026 \nopening night:\nTuesday 30 June\, 5-7pm \nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\n…We are creating a bower; collecting little things we like to show off\, comforts\, reflections\, traces of Country… \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%2Ffledge-radiance”][vc_btn title=”Exhbition Catalogue” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Ffortyfivedownstairs.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F07%2FFledge-radiance-Booklets-1.pdf”][/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=”Description”][vc_column_text css=””]In celebration of NAIDOC week\, curators E Salmon and Tre Turner have asked a selection of queer Blakfulla artists based around Narrm to showcase their work. \nWe are coming together to celebrate each other\, the gifts we give each other\, the gifts we receive from our ancestors\, Elders and mob\, and the gifts we are yet to give. \nWe are inspired by the Bower bird’s feathers\, whose iridescent blue is created by structural colouration. It is not the individual feather\, but the crystalline structure of them grouped together that shines such radiance. \nWe are creating a bower; collecting little things we like to show off\, comforts\, reflections\, traces of Country. And this can become a shelter from which we all fledge.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Participating Artists” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″][vc_column_text css=””]Grace Auld \nNicholas Currie \nENOKi \nlalatuai \nAri Mills \nElijah Money \nMia Nugent \nE Salmon \nPierra Van Sparkes \nTré Turner[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:MR BIG aka Tatay\, A Transwoman and That Tiring Tune!
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-theatre-company”]\nTAYOTAYO Collective in association with fortyfivedownstairs presents\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1762824921399{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-title”]\nMR BIG aka Tatay\, A Transwoman and That Tiring Tune! by Dax Carnay-Hanrahan\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1763607434550{padding-bottom: 25px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-dates”]24 June – 5 July 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_1782177083853{padding-top: 5px !important;}”]Wednesday 24 June – Sunday 5 July 2026\n\npreview: Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 June\nopening night: Friday 26 June\nduration: 90 minutes\ntimes:\nTuesday to Saturdays 7:30pm\nSundays 5pm\nSaturday 27 June 4pm – Auslan interpreted with post show Q&A\nticket price: $42 – $55\nbookings: 03 9662 9966 \nwarnings: This production contains haze\, suggestions of sexual abuse\, references to death and grief\, partial nudity\, sudden loud noises\, homophobic/transphobic language\, drug use\, sexual references\, coarse language\, and a very catchy tune[/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-b9f16135-ab6c” title=”Description”][vc_column_text css=””]A ghost that will not stop singing. A bride with a funeral to plan. A 90s love song that refuses to die. From award-winning playwright Dax Carnay-Hanrahan\, MR BIG aka Tatay\, A Transwoman and That Tiring Tune! is a darkly comedic and musically haunted new theatre work. \nSet between 1990s Manila and contemporary Melbourne\, MR BIG follows Diana\, a trans Filipina woman juggling her upcoming wedding and the funeral of her estranged father. Her plans fall apart when her late father reappears as a singing ghost who will not stop belting Mr. Big’s 1991 hit “To Be With You.” \nFusing music\, comedy\, and haunting absurdity\, the play dives into gender\, grief\, and immigrant duty\, navigating the chaos of a fractured family legacy. This heartfelt and hilarious Filipino-Australian story forces an unavoidable\, ridiculous confrontation with the ghosts of the past. \nDeveloped through the support of Midsumma Festival 2026\, the City of Melbourne Arts Grants\, and Darebin Arts through the Darebin Arts Speakeasy Spare Room program\, in association with fortyfivedownstairs.[/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-b9f16135-ab6c”][vc_column_text css=””]CAST in order of appearance \nDIANA/JGHOST – Dax Carnay-Hanrahan\nJOEY/DGHOST – Trevor Santos\nDION – Ken Paolo\nNOLET/ALFIE – Ayril Borce\nTESS – Anna Buenaseda\nJERRY – Aiden Gale Miranda \nCREATIVES \nDIRECTOR – Beng Oh\nWRITER – Dax Carnay-Hanrahan\nPRODUCER – Sasha Leong\nSTAGE MANAGER – Teri Steer\nASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER – Claire Le Blond\nDRAMATURG – Matthew Bostock\nMUSICAL DIRECTOR & SOUND DESIGNER – Ben Keene\nLIGHTING DESIGNER – Viv Hargreaves\nSET & COSTUME DESIGNER – Christina Logan-Bell\nVISUAL STORYTELLING – Jordan Hanrahan-Carnay[/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-b9f16135-ab6c”][vc_column_text css=””]\nTicket Prices:\nPreview: $42\nFull: $55\nConcession: $45\nGroup 6+: $45\nMob tickets (discount for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island mob): $42 \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_section title=”Special Events” tab_id=”1772668086679-efc4886c-f6d8″][vc_column_text css=””]\nMR BIG: Dedicated Community Performances + Artist Conversation\n\nAcross the season\, MR BIG aka Tatay\, A Transwoman and That Tiring Tune! features two dedicated community performances\, each followed by a facilitated post-show conversation. These sessions create safer\, community‑centred spaces for reflection and connection. Allies are welcome. \nSaturday 27 June\, 4pm – Migrant & Asian Australian Communities \nA dedicated performance for Migrant and Asian Australian communities\, followed by a post‑show conversation facilitated by Slanted Theatre. \n4 July\, 5pm – MR BIG & TGV: Trans/Form  \n\nEleven trans and gender-diverse creatives have been working with Dax through a series of intensive workshops to actively write and perform their own original material\, exploring how to take the raw material of our lived experience and transmute it into Satire\, Camp\, and Joy.\nWe invite you to experience these new and original works for the first time\, on the stage of MR BIG. These are works in-development. All MR BIG ticket holders for July 4th get access to this event.\n\n“Emerging trans and gender-diverse artists just spent three days turning their monsters into material and their material into something you can actually watch. The pre-show is them\, doing that\, live\, for the first time in front of people who aren’t each other. Then you get Mr. Big. Honestly\, get there early\, this might be the best part of your night.” – Daxie Carnay-Hanrahan\n\n\nSaturday 4 July\, 7.30pm – Trans and Gender Diverse Community Night \nA dedicated performance centring Trans and Gender Diverse audiences\, followed by a facilitated post-show conversation with Transgender Victoria. \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][vc_empty_space]book online [/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs theatre\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne 3000\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Between The Lines - The James Joyce/Groucho Marx Letters
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-theatre-company”]\nBloomsday in Melbourne presents\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1771395902678{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-title”]\nBetween The Lines – The James Joyce/Groucho Marx Letters\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1773790728301{padding-bottom: 25px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-dates”]17 – 21 June 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_1781762790837{padding-top: 5px !important;}”]Wednesday 17 June – Sunday 21 June 2026\n\nopening night: Wednesday 17 June\nduration: 80 mins (no interval)\ntimes:\nTuesday to Saturday 7:30pm\nSunday 3:30pm\nticket price: $35 – $48\nbookings: 03 9662 9966 \nwarnings: coarse language\, misogyny\, referenced sexual violence & assault and sexual references[/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-b9f1225d-fe8e” title=”Description”][vc_column_text css=””]A young scholar makes the discovery of the century – letters between James Joyce and comedy legend Groucho Marx – and believes she has secured her legacy. But in the cut-throat Joyce Industry\, credit rarely goes to a woman. Between The Lines is a razor sharp\, wryly witty literary mystery that follows her descent into a patriarchal web of ego and academic theft. As her groundbreaking discovery is hijacked by the very mentor she trusted to protect it\, truth begins to blur. Packed with intellectual gymnastics and dramatic reversals\, the story asks: who gets to own history? In a world of literary giants\, you can’t trust even the evidence of your own eyes… \nPhoto by Jody Jane Stitt[/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-b9f1225d-fe8e”][vc_column_text css=””]\nCAST in order of appearance \nPANDORA FRIEDAN Seon Williams \nJAMES JOYCE Tref Gare \nJILL SNOW Christina Costigan \nGROUCHO MARX Scott Middleton \nMURRAY DALTON Shannon Woollard \nMARY FRIEDAN Christina Costigan \n  \nCREATIVES \nDIRECTOR Renee Palmer \nSCRIPT Steve Carey \nSTAGE MANAGER Alison Ferrier \nSET DESIGNER Ishan Vivekanantham \nCOSTUME DESIGNER Zach Dixon \nLIGHTING Lindon Blakey \nSOUND DESIGNER AND COMPOSER Inder Singh \nPRODUCER Steve Carey \nPRODUCTION MANAGER AND ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Ella Thompson \nCREATIVE DIRECTOR Frances Devlin-Glass \nMARKETING MANAGER Eleanor Howlett\, Sassy Red PR \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-b9f1225d-fe8e”][vc_column_text css=””]\nTicket Prices:\nFull: $48\nConcession: $39\nGroup 4+: $35\nMob tickets (discount for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island mob): $35 \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]Buy Tickets [/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Windless Night
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nKate Butler\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nWindless Night\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]16 June – 27 June 2026\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\n…A lunar landscape of forms… faceted surfaces incise shadows and hold and reflect light… \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%2Fwindless-night”][/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=””]Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity. \n– Gaston Bachelard \n“Windless Night” centers on a body of ceramic sculptures that take inspiration from the stillness\, light and movement of the night sky\, as well as archetypal landmarks that have helped many a wayward traveler orient themself in space. Most were created at a time when I was in dire need of orientation\, in the years after I re-located to Melbourne\, Wurundjeri land\, from my home country of the US. \nThough united by recurring motifs – of clouds\, “beacons\,” the stars and moon – I began few of these sculptures from images\, and most from the assemblage of abstract shapes and the confluence of fluid lines. Thus they are as much a product as an inner vision as an outer one\, as much in reference to old archetypes of way-finding as they are to modernist models of compositional unity. \nIn “Poetics of Space\,” Gaston Bachelard proposes “a concordance of world immensity with intimate depths of being\,” noting the work of poets whose contemplation of vast expanses becomes a meditation on the depths of themselves. That duality of the intimate and the immense is alive in this work\, with its echoes both of the moon’s reflected light and the impressions of my hands on the clay.[/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=”” font_family=”Arial\, Helvetica\, sans-serif”]Kate Butler is American artist\, writer and educator based in Naarm/Melbourne\, Australia\, on Wurundjeri land. Referring to vast spaces and vertical structures\, her works in ceramics and drawing explore the mystic interdependence of nature and the human imagination. \nKate holds an her MFA and MS in Art History from the Pratt Institute (2019)\, and a BA in English and Studio Art from the College of Charleston (2014). She has also studied and apprenticed at the Leo Marchutz School of Painting and Drawing\, in Aix-en-Provence\, France. She teaches classes in art history and sculpture at RMIT and The Art Room.[/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:Melbourne Studio School New Works
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nMelbourne Studio School New Works\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nGroup Exhibition\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]2 June – 27 June 2026\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””][/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”PURCHASE AN ARTWORK” color=”inverse” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fgallery-shop-3603.myshopify.com%2Fcollections%2Fmelbourne-studio-school-new-works”][/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=”Description”][vc_column_text css=””]Founded in 1998 by Richard Birmingham\, Melbourne Studio School grew out of a need to re- calibrate painting and drawing in a Post-Modern era where conceptual arts practice and critical theory began to dominate teaching institutions throughout Australia and the world. \nLoosely based on the New York Studio School model\, an atelier system\, we prioritise the acquisition of fundamental\, analogue painting and drawing skills. You learn by doing. These skills include manual dexterity in mark making\, practice in compositional language and exploration of colour theory. \nA gradual assimilation is the key to mastering these disciplines whilst holding the observed and the imagined in balance. \nThis Group exhibition represents the work of 17 artists currently working at the school. Their work represents a cross-section of themes ranging from figuration to abstraction. \nMany of these artists pursue independent careers and exhibit regularly outside the school structure. Attendance at MSS provides an opportunity to enhance their professional practice. \nThose who attend classes\, are encouraged to discover their authentic voice\, develop a body of work of exhibition standard and establish an independent studio practice away from school hours. \nDrawing and painting flourishes when there’s a willingness to explore process and medium over any predetermined outcome. \nA spirit of enquiry creates the best chance for something transformative\, something special to take place in the work. \nRichard Birmingham 2026[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artists” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″][vc_column_text css=””]Jill Anderson \nLynne Bechervaise \nJarnie Birmingham \nLyn Buckingham \nPam Cheetham \nJulie Chiffey \nPhilippa Croll \nCarsten Segerlund Frederiksen \nSusan Hase \nJoy Elizabeth Lea \nLesley Lodge \nJohn McCallum \nCarol A Palfrey \nRosemarie Reber \nSandra Smillie \nSue Sweeney \nYaping Jiang[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Purchase an Artwork” tab_id=”1780367810438-410af343-ae08″][vc_btn title=”PURCHASE AN ARTWORK FROM THE ONLINE GALLERY SHOP” color=”inverse” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fgallery-shop-3603.myshopify.com%2Fcollections%2Fmelbourne-studio-school-new-works”][/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:Unicellular
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nKate Hunter\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nUnicellular\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]2 June – 13 June 2026 \nopening night: Tuesday 2 June\, 5-7pm \nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\n…Unicellular intersects personal stories with sounds and images that reflect the barely-visible and the easily-overlooked… \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_btn title=”PURCHASE AN ARTWORK” color=”black” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fgallery-shop-3603.myshopify.com%2Fcollections%2Funicellular”][/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=”Description”][vc_column_text css=””]Unicellular emerged from a research residency spanning Victoria and South Australia’s western Wimmera region and Limestone Coast\, during which subaquatic field recordings were gathered from the limestone springs at Ewens Ponds\, the brackish water at the mouth of the Glenelg River at Nelson\, and from Lake Wallace in Edenhope. \nThese audio recordings became generative material for an exhibition which positions microscopic\, non-human life – single-cell organisms\, phytoplankton\, the fragile ecosystems already destabilised by climate change – as active participants in an expanded attentional field.   \nDrawing on the artist’s theatre-making\, performance\, sound-design and painting practices\, Unicellular intersects personal stories with sounds and images that reflect the barely-visible and the easily-overlooked – building on a long-standing interest in giving voice\, in all sorts of ways\, to the small\, unheard\, and persistently alive.[/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=””]Kate Hunter is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance\, sound\, painting\, and installation. Her work draws on field recording\, verbatim theatre practice\, and personal narrative to explore attention as an artistic and dramaturgical force – attending to the non-human and the ecosystems we share with other forms of life.  \nPerformances include Memorandum (Theatre Works\, 2014) The Waiting Room (with Born In A Taxi\, 2010-2015) and Earshot (2017-2019). More recent works invite audiences into more intimate sonic encounters\, and include MicroSonic (Hobson’s Bay ‘Dear Agnes’ contemporary public art program 2026)\, and Near Sighted  (fortyfivedownstairs 2023). In 2024 she created The Symphony Series (with Rea Dennis) with Rawcus Theatre\, and Lick/Leccata (with Katie Lee\, Luigi Vescio\, and Annette Wagner) at the European Cultural Centre\, Palazzo Mora\, at the 2024 Venice Biennale.  \nKate was associate artist with award-winning physical theatre company Born in a Taxi for 15 years\, and has trained extensively in the Suzuki Method of Actor Training\, Viewpoints and Composition. She has studied in New York with Anne Bogart and SITI Company\, the UK with Ruth Kanner and Andrew Morrish\, and with acclaimed theatre director Richard Schechner. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Art and Performance at Deakin University\, Naarm/Melbourne\, Australia.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Purchase an Artwork” tab_id=”1780367693928-347ba645-8b91″][vc_btn title=”PURCHASE AN ARTWORK FROM OUR ONLINE GALLERY SHOP” color=”black” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fgallery-shop-3603.myshopify.com%2Fcollections%2Funicellular”][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Eurydice
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_1761704074260{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-title”]\nEurydice by Sarah Ruhl\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1761709777834{padding-bottom: 25px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-dates”]28 May – 14 June 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_1777513548505{padding-top: 5px !important;}”]Thursday 28 May – Sunday 14 June 2026\n\npreview: Thursday 28 May\nopening night: Friday 29 May\nduration: 90 minutes\ntimes:\nTuesday to Saturday 7:30pm\nSunday 5pm\nticket price: $39 – $55\nbookings: 03 9662 9966 \nindustry night: Tuesday June 2nd \nforum night: Tuesday June 9th \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-b9f1f251-55a3″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text css=””]Melbourne Shakespeare Company is proud to present Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice – a luminous\, poetic reimagining of the Greek myth\, directed by multi-award-winner Gary Abrahams. \nFollowing acclaimed sold-out seasons at fortyfivedownstairs\, Melbourne Shakespeare Company returns with a production of exceptional artistic ambition and emotional power. Through Ruhl’s distinctive voice\, the story of Eurydice and Orpheus is retold from a female perspective\, weaving memory\, love\, and loss into a dreamlike theatrical experience. \nEurydice offers Melbourne audiences a rare chance to see a modern masterpiece staged with depth and imagination. This is theatre for those who love bold\, beautiful storytelling. \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-b9f1f251-55a3″][vc_column_text css=””]CREATIVES \nDirector: Gary Abrahams \nSet & Costume Designer: Nathan Burmeister \nLighting Designer: Spencer Herd \nComposer & Musical Director: Grace Ferguson \nSound & AV Designer: Justin Gardam \nArtistic Director: Jennifer Sarah Dean \nProducer & Production Stage Manager: Seamus Allan \nMarketing Coordinator: Ryan Hamilton \n  \nCAST \nEurydice: Aisha Aidara \nOrpheus: Tomáš Kantor \nFather: John Voce \nLord of the Underworld: Devon Braithwaite \nStone: Joshua Gordon \nStone: Fran Sweeney-Nash \nStone: Miles Paras[/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-b9f1f251-55a3″][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]
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LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs theatre\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne 3000\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260519
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SUMMARY:In the silence between our heart beats
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nAnthea Vayonitis\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nIn the silence between our heart beats\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]19 May – 30 May 2026 \nopening night:\nTuesday 19 May\, 5 – 7pm \nguided drawing session with Anthea Vayonitis: \nSaturday 23 May\, 12:30 – 1:30pm\nTickets: $5 – BOOK BELOW \nopening hours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\n…Abstraction\, colour and sensation are explored through the metaphysical energies in nature… \n[/vc_column_text][/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=”Exhibition Description”][vc_column_text css=””]An emerging contemporary artist\, Anthea Vayonitis works with dance and meditation practices to create gesturally embodied immersive paintings. “In the silence between our heart beats” is an activation of works that includes the same titled 1.7 x 15m painting that was channelled whilst on a residency in July-August of 2025 in the Blue Mountains at Loaf Gallery\, formerly known as Landslide. This progressive painting and body of work cascades as a visual journal of her time spent in Wentworth Falls. Anthea connected with the breath-taking nature of the sacred land of the Barkindrji river people and Gundungurra people. Anthea painted her connection to energy through lyrical abstraction and sensation that was found in the metaphysical energies in the earth and specifically the birdlife that consumed her during her stay in the Blue Mountains. This work is accompanied by tufted paintings that ground the avian energies\, through bulbs\, sunlight\, and landscapes of the elemental spirits of earth\, water\, air\, fire. \n  \nExhibition Text by Nirmala Krishnan PH.D \nAvian Consciousness in Flight\, an avian consciousness\, a winged geometry echoing with vibrational intelligence\, weaving songs of energy through spirals\, waves\, and multidimensional grids. The spirals at each end are feathers of ascension\, charting the soul’s flight inward and outward\, always returning to Source. Zigzags and waveforms ripple like wings mid-beat\, awakening the central chord\, unlocking codes hidden in bone and breath. \nLayer upon layer moves like wind currents\, etheric\, astral\, physical flowing together in interdimensional flight. Dots and curves are sky-beacons: nodes of intent pulsing across space\, as in cell into cell. At the heart\, a spiral sun the galactic nest radiates light codes. Infinity loops glide like eternal flight paths\, connecting mind to higher skies. Colours in harmony\, rhythm golds of solar wisdom\, greens of forest breath\, violets of crown-lit skies\, all in harmony\, all in motion\, all in flight. Golden grids shimmer like a lattice of sky-bound feathers\, the Matrix of Form\, unseen but always present\, holding the divine architecture of becoming.[/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=””]Anthea Vayonitis is a Melbourne-based emerging artist\, graduating in Master of Fine Art at RMIT\, Melbourne\, Naarm. In 1995 Anthea completed a Bachelor of Fashion Design\, RMIT\, Melbourne\, Naarm\, alongside experienced training in Dance. Anthea works with painting through an intuitive process. Abstraction\, colour and sensation are explored through the metaphysical energies in nature. Like a dance\, one mark informs another and in creating a personal lexicon\, energy is represented as life force. She has participated in several art workshops led by Australian artist Yvette Coppersmith. Anthea took part of an artist residency at Loaf Gallery\, formerly known as Landslide\, Wentworth Falls\, Blue Mountains\, where is also had a studio visit with Australian artist\, Gene A ‘Hern. Anthea has painted for Cathy Freeman and presented works for her private collection. \nRecent Solo exhibitions include\, The Star\, the Sphere\, Helios\, Ra and the Golden Hour\, Rubicon ARI\, Melbourne\, 2025\, Gaia’s Golden Hour\, Brunswick Street Gallery\, Melbourne\, 2025\, Connective Chromatic Energies and Sensations\, Rubicon ARI\, Melbourne\, 2024\, Chromatic Sensations Of Spaces Between Spaces \, No Vacancy Gallery\, Melbourne\, 2024. Group Exhibitions include\, Gesture\, Harlow Gallery\, Melbourne\, 2025\, SMALL!\, fortyfivedownstairs\, Melbourne\, 2025\, Fifty Squared Art Prize\, Brunswick Street Gallery\, Melbourne\, 2025\, Emerging Artists Summer Exhibition\, Quadrant Gallery\, Melbourne\, 2024\, RMIT\, Graduate Exhibition: Photo\, Fine Art Hons\, MFA\, Art in Public Space\, RMIT\, Melbourne\, 2023 and RMIT Fashion Graduate Exhibition\, Great Hall\, National Gallery of Victoria\, Melbourne\, Naarm\, 1995. Anthea volunteered as part of the Hotel Hiromi Collective\, creating spaces for visitors to rest\, and connect with their feelings and spirit. Anthea worked with Hiromi Tango on the Children’s Sensorium project\, Archive of Feeling\, Sensation\, Connection\, Community\, Trauma\, Knowledge\, Empathy\, RMIT\, Design Hub Gallery\, 2022.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Book Tickets for Guided Drawing Session” tab_id=”1778723450508-32f63346-1949″][vc_column_text css=””]Guided drawing session with Anthea Vayonitis \nSaturday 23 May\, 12:30 – 1:30pm \nAll materials provided \n$5 tickets \n.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Purchase an artwork” tab_id=”1779156992719-507ddd61-d4d8″][vc_btn title=”PURCHASE AN ARTWORK” color=”black” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” button_block=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fgallery-shop-3603.myshopify.com%2Fcollections%2Fin-the-silence-between-our-heart-beats”][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Listen to Exhibition Audio” color=”black” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Ffortyfivedownstairs.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F05%2FAUDIO-2026-05-17-20-20-59.mp3″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/in-the-silence-between-our-heart-beats/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:gallery
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260531
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SUMMARY:Aural Transferences - Memory of Sound Through Deaf Ears
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nChelle Destefano\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nAural Transferences – Memory of Sound Through Deaf Ears\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]19 May – 30 May 2026\n \nopening night:\nTuesday 19 May\, 5 – 7pm \nartist talk:\nSaturday 30 May\, 2pm\nAUSLAN interpreted\, no booking required \nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\n…[I] saw my memories of those sounds play out in my movements… \n[/vc_column_text][/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 section_title_tag=”h3″ style=”modern” shape=”round” color=”white” active_section=”1″ no_fill_content_area=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1771486219534{border-color: #A5A5A5 !important;}”][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″ title=”Artist Statement”][vc_column_text css=””]Aural Transferences has been an ongoing process of exploring the depths of memory of sound from childhood as a native Deaf-from-birth person. When I had only 10% hearing as a Deaf child\, I was able to wear hearing aids and heard many sounds that became visuals. I have been using my artistic process to meditate on those memories into colour lines as notes. Working on this large 3-meter long work\, I filmed a portion of myself in creation process and saw my memories of those sounds play out in my movements and I chose music with the help of my hearing partner Zoe\, that fit just right with this work just like that. I recorded those notes of my memories of each section along the paper in white pen and pastel on the black that acts as a veil for memories of sound from Deaf ears.[/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=””]Chelle Destefano is a Deaf multidisciplinary artist working in drawing\, painting\, printmaking\, performance work and textiles. Her works currently centre around memory and identity exploring childhood memories and her inner-child which is an important part of her identity and her Deaf experiences. Chelle believes Auslan should be a site of resistance against audism and oppression for the Deaf culture and Deaf community. Recently Chelle was selected for the Art Gallery of Ballarat exhibition program to have a solo exhibition later this year. Chelle has been a finalist in many art prizes including the Michael Beazer Works on Paper Prize\, Wyndham Art Prize\, Nillumbik Art Prize\, Castlemaine’s Print Prize\, Kedumba Drawing Prize\, Incinerator Art Award\, Footscray Art Award\, Lyn McCrea Drawing Prize and the Lake Art Prize. She was a winner of the Lake Art Prize in 2020 and more recently the Nillumbik Prize in 2025.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”PURCHASE AN ARTWORK” tab_id=”1779157603714-d9d0b691-adf3″][vc_btn title=”PURCHASE AN ARTWORK” color=”black” align=”center” css=”” button_block=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fgallery-shop-3603.myshopify.com%2Fcollections%2Faural-transferences-memory-of-sound-through-deaf-ears”][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]This project is supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants. \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/aural-transferences-memory-of-sound-through-deaf-ears/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:gallery
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260512
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SUMMARY:Enter the Emerging Artist Award 2026
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″]2025 EAA 1st Prize Winner: Steph Everett\, 'backseat of a commodore'\, glass beads\, thread\, copper rod\, 43 x 75 cm.[/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nEnter the Emerging Artist Award 2026\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]submissions close: Friday 12 June\, 5pm \nexhibition dates: 14 July – 24 July 2026 \nentry fee: $30 \n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\n…a proven catalyst for ongoing recognition and professional development… \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”round” color=”white” active_section=”1″ no_fill_content_area=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1778208904639{border-color: #000000 !important;}”][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1780624341867{border-radius: 1px !important;}” wpex_border_color=”#010101″]We’re thrilled to announce that applications for our 11th annual Emerging Artist Award are now open! \nThe Emerging Artist Award at fortyfivedownstairs is a proven catalyst for recognition and professional development\, while giving audiences the opportunity to discover bold new work from some of Australia’s most exciting early-career artists. \nArtists from across Australia in the early stages of their career are invited to apply (see Conditions of Entry for eligibility details). \nA selection of finalists will be exhibited from 14–24 July 2026 across our two gallery spaces at 45 Flinders Lane. A special guest judge will award a $3\,000 prize pool to the two submissions that best align with the award criteria\, and visitors will also have the chance to vote in the People’s Choice Award. \nSubmissions close on Friday 12 June\, 5pm. \nFREE entry for First Nations people\, contact gallery@fortyfivedownstairs.com. \nPlease ensure you read the Conditions of Entry carefully\, as entry fees are non-refundable. \nSupported by: \n. \n.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Check out past Emerging Artist Awards” align=”left” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Ffortyfivedownstairs.com%2Femerging-artist-award%2F”][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Conditions of Entry” tab_id=”1778203819960-4963128f-5a5d”][vc_column_text css=””]Please ensure you read the Conditions of Entry carefully\, as entry fees are non-refundable. \n\nEntry is open to artists residing in Australia who are in the early stages of their career\, defined as having held no more than three solo exhibitions\, not being represented by a gallery\, and not having won or been shortlisted for any major art prizes or awards\, or possessing equivalent professional experience.\nPrevious finalists in the Emerging Artist Award are not eligible to enter.\nArtists may submit a maximum of two entries\, with one artwork per entry. Artworks must be complete at the time of submission.\nThe entry fee is $30 per artwork. Entry fees are non-refundable.\nEntrants must complete the online application form and submit: an artist statement/supporting statement\, a current artist CV\, up to three images of the artwork. Total uploaded image files must not exceed 9MB.\nAny use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the production of submitted artwork must be clearly disclosed at the time of entry\, including the extent and nature of its use.\nSelection of finalist artworks will take into consideration the gallery’s capacity to accommodate installation requirements. There are no artwork size limits. \nAll media are eligible for submission. Artists exhibiting time-based\, digital\, installation\, or non-standard works must provide all equipment\, materials\, hardware\, and clear installation instructions required for display. fortyfivedownstairs will supply standard installation hardware only\, including nails and screws.\nAll costs associated with the delivery\, freight\, shipping\, insurance\, installation\, and collection of artworks are the responsibility of the artist. All artworks must arrive in sound and exhibition-ready condition.\nAll shortlisted artworks must be available for sale. A commission of 20% will be retained by fortyfivedownstairs on all sales.\nBy submitting an entry\, entrants acknowledge their availability to meet the following dates:\n\n\nSubmission deadline: Friday 12 June 2026\, 5:00pm\nNotification of finalists: Friday 26 June 2026\nArtwork delivery: Saturday 11 July 2026\, 12:00pm–4:00pm\nExhibition dates: 14–24 July 2026\nCollection of unsold works: Saturday 25 July 2026\, 12:00pm–4:00pm\n\n\nThe judge’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.\nThe final determination of eligibility and suitability for exhibition rests with fortyfivedownstairs. fortyfivedownstairs reserves the right to withdraw or refuse works deemed unsuitable for display\, installation\, safety\, or logistical reasons.\nWhile all reasonable care will be taken in handling artworks\, fortyfivedownstairs accepts no responsibility for loss or damage.\nBy entering the award\, entrants grant fortyfivedownstairs permission to reproduce images of submitted and shortlisted artworks for promotional\, publicity\, educational\, and archival purposes\, with artist attribution.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/enter-the-emerging-artist-award-2026-2/
LOCATION:Victoria
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260505
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260517
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SUMMARY:Autumn Haiku
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nJames Bryans\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nAutumn Haiku\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]5 May – 16 May 2026 \nopening night: \nTuesday 5 May\, 6 – 8pm\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\n…clouds over Fuji\nbubbles burst on fallen leaves\nan old deer lies down… \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_empty_space height=”20px”]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” css=”.vc_custom_1771484613012{background-color: #FFFFFF !important;border-color: #FFFFFF !important;}”][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text css=””]In this series of photographs taken in Japan I chose to bypass the chaos inherent in big cities\, instead observing and experiencing the beauty of fleeting things and the changes of light and atmosphere around those things which are more permanent. \n[/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=””]James Bryans has been exhibiting since the mid-nineties\, presenting work in national and international institutions such as Stills Gallery\, NSW\, the National Portrait Gallery\, UK\, Centre for Contemporary Photography\, fortyfivedownstairs\, Linden Gallery\, and Green Floor Gallery\, VIC\, the Melbourne Immigration Museum\, and the Consulate-General of Japan in Melbourne. At Tweed River Regional Gallery he has been selected as a finalist for the Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture (2006) and the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award (2003\, 2002 Judges Commendation\, 2000\, 1999). In 2008\, ArtWorld Magazine featured him in their Photography Supplement edition. In 2024 and 2025 he was selected as part of the Head On Photo Festival Open Program. His work is held in private collections within Australia and overseas.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_section][/vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”PRE-SALES NOW OPEN – PURCHASE AN ARTWORK” color=”black” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” button_block=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fgallery-shop-3603.myshopify.com%2Fcollections%2Fautumn-haiku”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Silence In Shadow
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nBrian Reberger\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nSilence In Shadow\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]5 May – 16 May 2026 \nopening night: \nTuesday 5 May\, 6 – 8pm \nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free \nPURCHASE AN ARTWORK[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\n……moments of revelation and mystery emerge from contrast…inspired by Caravaggio’s mastery of tenebrism… \n[/vc_column_text][/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=””]Having lived and worked in Italy for several years and now dividing my time between there and my studio in Daylesford\, I find my creative vision continually shaped by these magical places. My art explores tension between illumination and obscurity\, inviting viewers to experience drama through contrast. In “Silence in Shadow\,” I bring together oil paintings\, photography with gold or silver leaf to evoke the spirit of Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro. \nThe exhibition’s central theme is the interplay of ‘light and darkness’\, where moments of revelation and mystery emerge from contrast. Inspired by Caravaggio’s mastery of tenebrism\, I present subjects that appear to float on a void\, illuminated by an almost theatrical beam. These works delve into the beauty that light can reveal within darkness\, encouraging viewers to reflect on their own experiences of clarity and enigma. \nMaterials & Process\n-Oil paintings of vibrantly coloured still lives set against deep\, dark backgrounds\n-Black and white photographs hand painted with delicate tints and gold or silver highlights\, a whisper of luxury that punctuates areas of light. \nMy process embraces patience and precision: the photographic hand-painting demands careful attention\, while oil studies require meticulous layering to achieve the desired depth. \nI invite you to step into these contrasts and discover your own moments of illumination within the ‘silence and shadow’.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s CV” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″][vc_column_text css=””]Studios: Daylesford\, Australia & Citta Di Castello\, Italy\nWebsite: http://www.brianreberger.com\nEmail: brianreberger@gmail.com\nPhone: 0407 359 989 \nEducation\n1982: Diploma in Fine Art (Painting)\, Swinburne University of Technology (Prahran College)\, Melbourne\, Australia \nSelected Exhibitions – Solo\n2026 – “Silence in Shadow” 45 Downstairs\, Melbourne (Oil Paintings & Hand Painted Photographs)\n2023 – “Collezione Appassionata” Palazzo Del Podesta\, Citta di Castello\, ITALY (Charcoal Paintings & Hand Painted Photographs)\n2022 – “My Italian Life” Steps Gallery\, Carlton (Retrospective Exhibition)\n2022 – “My Italian Life” (Online Exhibition)\n2018 – “A Journey to New Beginnings\,” Steps Gallery\, Carlton (Charcoal Paintings)\n2016 – “Perspectives & Curioso\,” Steps Gallery\, Carlton (Charcoal Paintings)\n2015 – “Momenti Catturati\,” The Art Vault\, Mildura (Painting & Drawing)\n2015 – Convent Gallery\, Daylesford (Charcoal\, Pastel & Oil Paintings)\n2014 – “All That Glitters\,” Steps Gallery\, Carlton (Charcoal with Gold & Silver Leaf)\n2013 – “Italia-che Passione\,” Italian Institute of Culture\, Melbourne (Painting & Drawing)\n2012 – Steps Gallery\, Carlton (Painting & Drawing)\n2011 – Ballarat Foto Biennale\, Mercato @ Daylesford (Hand Painted Photographs)\n2006 – Hotel Sofitel\, Melbourne (Charcoal)\n2004/05 – Mercato @ Daylesford (Pastel & Charcoal)\n2002/03 – Hotel Sofitel\, Le Restaurant\, Melbourne (Pastel)\n2001/02 – Hotel Sofitel\, Atrium Gallery\, Melbourne (Pastel)\n2001 – Convent Gallery\, Daylesford (Photographic & Pastel)\n2000 – Chiara Goya Gallery\, Fitzroy (Pastel\, “Passionate Perspectives”)\n1999 – Convent Gallery\, Daylesford (“Italian Journey” – Photographic)\n1991 – Guilfoyles\, South Yarra (Pastel) \nSelected Exhibitions – Group\n2019\, 2017 – DMROS Open Studios Participant\n2013 – “The Three Amici\,” Bowen Hill Studio\, Buninyong (with Doug Wright & Anne Saunders)\n2010 – “Figure & Form: Five Artists\,” Greenwood Gallery\, South Melbourne (Oils & Charcoals)\n2005 – “When Fashion Meets Art\,” Tremayne\, Toorak (Pastel & Charcoal)\n2001 – Goya Gallery\, Melbourne (“50 Most Collectable Artists\,” Pastel)\n1982 – Hawthorn City Art Gallery (Graduate Exhibition) \nLectures & Workshops\n2001 & 2002 – Lectures to National Gallery of Victoria Society (Pastel Painting) \nCollections\nWorks held in private collections in Australia\, Asia\, Italy\, America\, England\, and Lebanon. \nPress\nEditorial coverage in Australia\, Italy\, and America. \nArtistic Travel\nExtensive travel for art practice\, photography\, and painting\, including:\nItaly  (2025\, 2024\, 2022\, 2019\, 2018\, 2017\, 2016\, 2015\, 2007\, 2001)\nEurope (2013\, 2009\, 2005\, 2003)\nVietnam\, Cambodia & Laos (2012)\nIndia & Indonesia (2011\, 2004)\nNew Zealand (2004)\nThailand (2002)\nAmerica (2001)[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Shadforth Financial Group                               Travel Professionals                                        Fine Wines of the King Valley \n                                                                                   \n  \n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”PURCHASE AN ARTWORK” color=”black” align=”center” css=”” button_block=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fgallery-shop-3603.myshopify.com%2Fcollections%2Fsilence-in-shadow”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Chamber Music Festival 2026
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-theatre-company”]\nCoady Green and fortyfivedownstairs present\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1764543990048{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-title”]\nChamber Music Festival 2026\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1764544007428{padding-bottom: 25px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-dates”]21 April – 3 May 2026[/vc_column_text][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_1770856982687{padding-top: 5px !important;}”]Tuesday 21 April – Sunday 3 May 2026\n\ntimes: the schedule varies so please check the times below before booking tickets \nticket price: $32-$48 \nbookings: 03 9662 9966[/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-b9f1c039-1bee” title=”2026 Program”][vc_column_text css=””]Click on the buttons below to buy tickets to individual concerts. If you would like to purchase a package to see multiple concerts at a reduced price\, click HERE. \n\nOpening Night: Hamlet\, Ophelia and a Midsummer Night\nTuesday 21 April\, 7:30pm \nTo open the 2026 Chamber Music Festival\, pianists Coady Green\, Ian Munro and Charlotte Roberts will be joined by renowned actor Helen Morse to present a program inspired by the Bard – Edward MacDowell’s Hamlet and Ophelia Opus 22 arranged for two pianos\, Sally Beamish’s Sonnets for three pianists on two pianos (narrated by Morse)\, Liszt’s Hamlet S.644 arranged for two pianos\, and Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream Opus 61 arranged for four hands (narrated by Morse). \nBUY TICKETS \n\nDante’s Lovers and Visionaries\nWednesday 22 April\, 7:30pm \nInspired by Dante’s La Commedia\, this evocative program traces a journey from the torments of Inferno to the redemptive vision of Paradise. Liszt’s monumental Après une lecture du Dante features amongst a sequence of works exploring Dante’s most compelling figures\, including the tragic Francesca da Rimini. At the heart of the concert is the world-premiere of Gordon Kerry’s major song cycle Dante and Beatrice\, performed by soprano Rachel Joyce\, mezzo-soprano Dimity Shepherd\, tenor Boyd Owen\, and baritone Christopher Hillier. Drawing on Sir Samuel Griffith’s English translation (OUP\, 1911)\, with story adaptation by Margot Costanzo and libretto by Costanzo and Kerry\, the cycle charts Dante’s spiritual passage toward Beatrice. Music by Granados and new commissions\, including Gulliver Poole’s Paper Love\, create an unmissable Dantean tableau. \nbuy tickets \n\nBeethoven 9th Symphony arranged by Franz Liszt\nThursday 23 April\, 7:30pm \nLegendary Australian pianist Michael Leslie returns from Germany to join Melbourne virtuoso Peter de Jager for a monumental musical event: Franz Liszt’s epic two-piano arrangement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. A towering feat of pianistic imagination\, Liszt’s arrangement is a complete re-creation of Beethoven’s orchestral\, choral\, and solo forces through the hands of just two performers. In this dazzlingly difficult tour de force\, two pianists at two pianos conjure the full sonic architecture of the symphony\, from its elemental opening to the transcendence of the “Ode to Joy.” Liszt\, himself the greatest piano virtuoso of the nineteenth century\, created these symphonic transcriptions to bring the orchestral canon to wider audiences before the age of recording. Today\, the Ninth Symphony arrangement remains one of the rarest and most formidable works in the entire piano duet repertoire\, seldom performed\, and even more rarely attempted live in concert. \nbuy tickets \n\nMy Favourite Penis Poems (and Other Love Stories)\nFriday 24 April\, 7:30pm \nPulitzer Prize-winning composer David Del Tredici was one of the first major classical composers to fully embrace queerness in a radical act of joy\, eroticism\, and defiance. This concert highlights two sides of Del Tredici’s queer expression. There’s the outrageously camp My Favourite Penis Poems – a virtuosic\, hilarious\, and unabashed song cycle setting his favourite poems on the rise and fall of His Majesty\, the Penis – and the deeply moving Gay Life – a meditative and tender exploration of queer identity\, composed in 2001. Both works receive their Australian premieres\, performed by a sensational ensemble of musicians including acclaimed American pianist and Del Tredici’s longtime friend\, Marc Peloquin\, baritone Bailey Montgomerie\, tenor Boyd Owen\, and soprano Marjorie Hannah. \nbuy tickets \n\nFrom Verona to Manhattan: Romeo and Juliet in Music\nSaturday 25 April\, 7:30pm \nOpening with Bellini’s rarely heard overture on the warring Montagues and Capulets\, this celebration of Shakespeare’s timeless love story continues with Linda Kouvaras’ The Nurse’s Curse from She Who Should Have Been a Queen\, Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story for two pianos\, the Australian premiere of Tchaikovsky’s epic Romeo and Juliet Overture arranged for two pianos by Karl Klindworth\, and Ned Rorem’s Four Dialogues\, a witty and lyrical set for two voices and two pianos. Performers include pianists Coady Green and Marc Peloquin and soprano Elena Xanthoudakis. \nbuy tickets \n\nThe Melbourne Mozart Project \nSunday 26 April and Sunday 3 May  \nClick HERE for more information on this exciting series of events. \n\nBrahms\, Liszt & Mendelssohn: Hungarian Fire and Italian Light\nTuesday 28 April\, 7:30pm \nPerformers Josephine Vains (cello)\, Sofija Kirsanova (violin)\, Coady Green (piano)\, and Ricardo Roche Idini (piano) combine forces in this expansive celebration of Romantic colour\, vitality\, and collective virtuosity. The program begins with the complete set of 21 Hungarian Dances by Johannes Brahms. Arranged for piano four hands\, violin and cello\, and overflowing with melodic buoyancy\, rhythmic bite and emotional depth\, these dances remain among Brahms’s most captivating works. This is followed by Franz Liszt’s blazingly virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody\, also arranged for piano four hands with strings\, and an arrangement of Felix Mendelssohn’s exuberant Symphony No. 4\, the Italian\, whose sunlit energy and lyrical sweep bring the concert to a jubilant close. \nbuy tickets \n\nMeta Cohen and Olivier Messiaen: Prophecy and Eternity\nThursday 30 April\, 7:30pm \nA rare opportunity to encounter one of the twentieth century’s great visionary masterworks: Olivier Messiaen’s Visions de l’Amen\, performed by Coady Green and Marc Peloquin on two pianos. Composed during the Second World War\, this vast\, mystical meditation moves from creation and love to judgment and eternity\, revealing Messiaen as theologian\, mystic\, and ecstatic colourist. The program opens with Delphi Songs by Meta Cohen\, performed by Jessica Aszodi and Coady Green\, a haunting cycle inspired by prophecy and the final Oracle of Delphi\, whose voice foretold the end of her own sacred order. Also featured is Cohen’s brand new piano suite The Warning Never Heard\, based on the myth of Cassandra. Spanning millennia\, Cohen’s work contemplates revelation\, authority\, and the fading boundary between divine utterance and human mortality. \nbuy tickets \n\nThe Crossing Machine performs The Juliet Letters by Elvis Costello and The Brodsky Quartet\nFriday 1 May\, 7:30pm   \nMelbourne string quartet The Crossing Machine (violinists Marianne Rothschild and Matthew Rigby\, violist Margaret Butcher and cellist Charlotte Jacke) will be joined by vocalist Jordan Z to perform The Juliet Letters\, the genre-defying song cycle created by Elvis Costello in collaboration with The Brodsky Quartet. Originally released in 1993\, The Juliet Letters is a sequence of letters written to Shakespeare’s Juliet\, revealing a gallery of fractured lives\, longing\, regret\, and dark wit. Since beginning this project in 2018\, The Crossing Machine has been breathing new life into the work\, approaching it with deep respect for the score while bringing a distinctly contemporary energy and emotional clarity. The quartet is currently in the final stages of an exciting new CD release and this performance forms part of a small number of anticipated launch concerts planned for 2026. \nbuy tickets \n\nTriptych of Shadows: Satie\, Ullmann\, Kouvaras\nSaturday 2 May\, 7:30pm\n \nMeditations on love\, death\, memory\, and what remains \nErik Satie’s luminous Socrate\, performed by soprano Lily Flynn and pianist Coady Green\, offers a serene\, translucent meditation on the philosopher’s final hours\, a work the composer called a “symphony in white.” Viktor Ullmann’s Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke\, with actor Paul English and Green\, transforms Rilke’s prose poem into a hallucinatory wartime monodrama composed in Theresienstadt before Ullmann’s death in Auschwitz. The program concludes with a world-premiere preview of Linda Kouvaras’s The Boarding House\, Carlton\, 1972: Those that Remain\, narrated by Tiriki Onus and featuring baritone Alex Owens\, with text by Richard Ward\, a searing reimagining of memory\, violence\, and 1970s Melbourne. \nBuy tickets  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Melbourne Mozart Project” tab_id=”1770769982191-adcb46ea-dc4c”][vc_column_text css=””]The Melbourne Mozart Project Part I: Four Concerts of Mozart Piano Concertos in One Day\nSunday 26 April \nA festival within a festival\, The Melbourne Mozart Project celebrates Mozart through two parallel musical journeys. Part I: Rising Stars showcases Melbourne’s most exceptional young pianists in a one-day concerto marathon. Across four concerts\, pre-tertiary soloists perform complete Mozart piano concertos\, partnered by some of our finest established instrumentalists accompanying in string arrangements of the orchestral parts. Curated by leading pianist-educators Coady Green and Glenn Riddle\, the project offers these outstanding young musicians a rare professional platform within the fortyfivedownstairs Chamber Music Festival. A celebration of mentorship\, virtuosity\, and musical inheritance\, Rising Stars reveals the next generation of Mozart interpreters in performances of brilliance\, ambition\, and joy. \nConcert 1: The Early Spark – 11:00am \nPiano Concerto No. 5 in D major\, K.175: Soloist: Seth Raudam\nPiano Concerto No. 8 in C major\, K.246 Soloist: Malik Johnston\nPiano Concerto No. 12 in A major\, K.414 Soloist: Charlie Wu \nbuy tickets \n\nConcert 2: The Virtuoso Emerges – 1:30pm \nPiano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat major K. 595 Jeunehomme Soloist: Diego Yu\nPiano Concerto No. 11 in F major\, K.413 Soloist: Jacqueline Wang\nPiano Concerto No. 13 in C major\, K.415 Soloist: Caitlin Au\n \nbuy tickets \n\nConcert 3: Shadows and Light – 4:00pm \nPiano Concerto No. 14 in E-flat major\, K.449: Soloist: Arul Verty\nPiano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat major K. 482 Solo: Jack Brunialti-Sykes \nPiano Concerto No. 20 in D minor\, K.466 Solo: Charlotte Roberts \nbuy tickets \n\nConcert 4: Masterworks – 7:30pm \nPiano Concerto No. 21 in C major\, K.467 “Elvira Madigan” Soloist: Abby Zhao\nPiano Concerto No. 23 in A major\, K.488 Soloist: Oriana Kang-Kurniawan\nPiano Concerto No. 25 in C major\, K.503 Soloist: Stefania Robu \nbuy tickets \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Ticket Prices & Concessions” tab_id=”1452941768731-94b426f3-57530201-342dcb0a-2ec9a177-581a2513-a5c51f1f-8993a3c4-5ca5cb85-3d54189f-4d6f8ba6-b9f1c039-1bee”][vc_column_text css=””]\nTicket Prices:\nFull: $42-$48\nConcession: $32-$38\nGroup 6+: $32-$38 \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_section title=”Ticket Packages” tab_id=”1770771919972-853c3700-1673″][vc_column_text css=””]Book to see three or more concerts and receive a discount! Click the buttons below to book online or call (03) 9662 9966. \n$40 full price for 3+ concerts \n$30 concession price for 3+ concerts[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Coady Green interview” tab_id=”1776127856336-182fcde4-7289″][vc_column_text css=””]What inspired you to launch the Festival back in 2023? \nI felt there was a real gap in Melbourne for a major chamber music festival that brings together leading Australian artists and outstanding visiting performers\, while also championing adventurous and diverse repertoire. The ethos of fortyfivedownstairs itself\, eclectic\, artist-driven\, and creatively fearless\, felt like the perfect match too. From the beginning\, the vision was to create an intensive two-week program where audiences could experience both beloved masterworks and bold new music side by side\, and where diversity of voices\, styles\, and perspectives is genuinely at the centre of the programming. \nWhat do you love about performing at fortyfivedownstairs? \nI first performed at fortyfivedownstairs in 2008\, when I was living in London and returning to Australia every year or two. I loved it immediately\, for both its resonance and captivating atmosphere. It is an unexpected “loft-style” performance space of the kind that you find in New York and Berlin. I also know so many colleagues – actors\, visual artists\, sound designers and musicians – who share this love\, so it has a community spirit as well. \nFor a patron who hasn’t attended a Chamber Music Festival event\, what would you recommend as an introduction?  \nTry opening night – Helen Morse reciting excerpts from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Nights’ Dream\, accompanied by Mendelssohn’s beautiful (and virtuosic) incidental music… Or come along to a night inspired by Romeo and Juliet\, with visiting American virtuoso Marc Peloquin\, featuring works from Tchaikovsky to Bernstein… Or a vivid night with the complete Brahms Hungarian Dances\, arranged for piano four hands\, violin and cello\, paired with Mendelssohn’s 4th Symphony. Or the world-premiere of Gordon Kerry’s new song cycle Dante and Beatrice in a concert of works inspired by Dante… Or the complete works by Mozart for piano four hands and two pianos in two concerts on Sunday May 3rd – something you’ll likely never experience again in this way. There’s also the monumental Liszt arrangement of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony for two pianos\, a piece so rarely performed\, with visiting guest artists Michael Leslie and Peter de Jager. \nAnother monumental work for two pianos that many people love but is rarely played is Messiaen’s exquisite Visions de l’Amen\, which I will be playing with guest Marc Peloquin. This is an enormous work\, and really very special. We are pairing it with Meta Cohen’s evocative song cycle on the statements of the oracle at Delphi – Delphi Songs.  \nAnd what would you suggest to the patron who sees numerous live music performances who is looking for something new and surprising?   \nThe late\, Pulitzer-Prize-Winning American composer David Del Tredici features in the festival\, with two Australian premieres – his profoundly moving song-cycle for baritone and piano\, Gay Life\, and the outrageous My Favourite Penis Poems. Need I say more? \nFor regular patrons\, I wouldn’t miss the Messiaen Visions de l’Amen\, which is such a great\, epic work. Another wonderful surprise is the complete Elvis Costello Juliet Letters\, performed by the Melbourne string quartet The Crossing Machine\, with guest vocalist Jordan Z. \nAlso in the new and surprising category – a performance of a new song cycle for baritone\, piano and narrator by Linda Kouvaras\, with narration about local (and very surprising) stories from Carlton… this is paired with a rare performance of Satie’s beautiful Socrate\, taking text from Plato\, and Viktor Ullman’s Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke\, with actor Paul English\, which transforms Rilke’s prose poem into a hallucinatory wartime monodrama composed in Theresienstadt before Ullmann’s death in Auschwitz.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Gathered
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nLana Daubermann & Fiona O’Byrne\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nGathered\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]21 April – 2 May 2026 \nopening night:\nTuesday 21 April\, 5 – 7pm \nartist talk:\nFriday 1 May\, 6 – 6:45pm \nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\n…There is a subtle reciprocity on the canvas: a shared tonal palette here\, a familiar energy in the brushwork there… \n[/vc_column_text][/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=””]Gathered celebrates more than a decade of friendship and creative exchange between Fiona O’Byrne and Lana Daubermann. Having met years ago as students at the Victorian Artists Society\, the two have since returned to the same halls to teach together\, all while maintaining an ongoing dialogue about the craft of painting. \nWhile their focuses have diverged – Fiona into the intimate world of portraiture and still life\, and Lana into the expansive reach of the landscape – their work continues to speak a similar language. \nIn this exhibition\, the paintings are in conversation with one another. There is a subtle reciprocity on the canvas: a shared tonal palette here\, a familiar energy in the brushwork there. Each nods to one another’s strengths\, reflecting a mutual influence built over years of discussing the craft of painting and supporting each other’s creative journey. \nFiona’s work remains a meditation on domestic realism\, finding poignancy in the “here and now” through commonplace objects and familiar faces. Lana’s landscapes explore colour and atmosphere\, capturing the spirit of the natural world. Together\, Gathered is a harmony of two distinct paths that continue to run side-by-side.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Events” tab_id=”1774573140808-e46cf210-0abb”][vc_column_text css=””]Opening Night\nTuesday 21 April\, 5 – 7pm \nArtist Talk with Lana Daubermann and Fiona O’Byrne\nFriday 1 May\, 6 – 6:45pm[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”PURCHASE AN ARTWORK” color=”black” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” button_block=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fgallery-shop-3603.myshopify.com%2Fcollections%2Fgathered”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/gathered/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:gallery
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260421
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SUMMARY:Sea like a mirror
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nLaura Williams\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nSea like a mirror\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]21 April – 2 May 2026 \nopening night: \nTuesday 21 April\, 5-7pm\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free \ncollage workshop:\nSaturday 2 May\, 2pm \n_[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\n… [the exhibition] speaks to a broader need to seek our own forms of stillness\, whether in nature or elsewhere… \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_btn title=”BOOK WORKSHOP” color=”peacoc” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Ffortyfivedownstairs.sales.ticketsearch.com%2Fsales%2Fsalesevent%2F162879″][vc_btn title=”EXHIBITION CATALOGUE” color=”vista-blue” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Ffortyfivedownstairs.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F04%2FLaura-Williams-Catalogue.pdf”][/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=””]Sea like a mirror comprises a series of works on paper by Laura Williams which focus on moments of stillness within the natural environment. Each work is inspired by a memory of a specific place and being absorbed in the natural surroundings. This has been a continuing theme in Laura’s work in recent years\, and it also speaks to a broader need to seek our own forms of stillness\, whether in nature or elsewhere. \nThe title of the exhibition ‘sea like a mirror’\, is a phrase drawn from the Beaufort wind force scale\, a system developed to determine wind force through observations of the surrounding environment. But while this phrase is reflective of calm conditions and stillness\, if ‘sea like a mirror’ is read a different way\, it could be about seeing in the environment a reflection of ourselves. \nThe artworks in the exhibition are all created with watercolour on paper\, either as paintings\, collages\, sculptures or installations and using processes of painting\, layering\, attaching\, folding\, sewing\, or suspending. While watercolour paint dries quickly\, the other processes are all usually slow and become a meditative practice in themselves. \nThis project has been supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants.[/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=””]Laura Williams is an artist from the south-west of Western Australia\, now based in Melbourne. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Western Australia in 2007 and then went on to complete a Master of Arts and Cultural Management degree at the University of Melbourne. \nLaura’s work has been exhibited throughout Australia including Hatched 07: National Graduate Show\, The Elaine Bermingham National Landscape Prize for Watercolour\, the Heysen Prize for Landscape and the National Works on Paper finalist exhibition. She was an artist in residence at Studio Kura in Itoshima\, Japan in 2017.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Collage workshop” tab_id=”1774572417408-453d9edb-28a6″][vc_column_text css=””]Collage workshop with Laura Williams \nSaturday 2 May 2026\, 2-3pm \nFee: $5 \nJoin artist Laura Williams as she guides you through a collaging session\, inspired by her exhibition\, Sea like a mirror. \nAll materials are provided\, and no previous experience is needed. \n.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”BOOK HERE” color=”peacoc” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Ffortyfivedownstairs.sales.ticketsearch.com%2Fsales%2Fsalesevent%2F162879″][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”PURCHASE AN ARTWORK” color=”black” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” button_block=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fgallery-shop-3603.myshopify.com%2Fcollections%2Fsea-like-a-mirror”][/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:Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2026
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1771896985519{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-title”]\nMelbourne International Comedy Festival\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1771896995280{padding-bottom: 25px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-dates”]26 March – 19 April 2026[/vc_column_text][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_1771897397470{padding-top: 5px !important;}”]Thursday 26 March – Sunday 19 April 2026 \nwww.comedyfestival.com.au[/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-b9f14f52-1b63″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text css=””]Anisa Nandaula\nNo Small Talk \nAnisa Nandaula (Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Gen) dives headfirst into the chaos of her life – nearly getting into a fight\, feuding with her next-door neighbour and surviving her old workplace drama. Then\, after a decade away\, she returns to Africa and brings back a suitcase full of hilarious\, unforgettable stories. No filters\, no small talk – just big laughs. \nBuy tickets \n\nChris Parker\nTake a Good Hard Look at Me \nHello! I’ve been vying for your attention for a long time now. I’d comfortably say\, it’s been 30 years. Thirty years of trying to make people look at me. In that time there have been many attempts to try and masquerade it as something “important” or “educational” but the longer I’ve sat with it\, the more I’ve come to accept that it could maybe just be vanity. So I won’t sugar coat it in the blurb. There’re no secrets about to be dished\, no valuable lesson to take away. I’m just a 35-year-old gay man\, who was told there was something special about him as a kid and has been grappling with that ever since\, standing in front of an audience asking them to take a good hard look at ME! \nBuy tickets \n\nJKS: a Comedy(?)\nBy Tom Ballard \nThe sell-out Melbourne Fringe hit returns for six shows only! \nA weekly stand-up gig. Backstage. \nIn between their sets\, five comedians are laughing\, bitching and talking shit. \nIt’s all fun and games… until they hear the news: a legend has died. \nDepending on who you ask\, he either leaves behind a lifetime of laughter\, or a legacy of bigotry and pain. Or maybe both. Or neither… \nThe comics get stuck in: was this guy actually funny\, or just embarrassing? Is being “funny” all that matters\, anyway? What’s even the point of telling jokes? How much harm (or good) can they ever do? How dark and f#%ked up can you go? Who can say what – and who decides? \nAs the gig carries on in the background\, the comics go to war on ‘The Big Question’ – what is comedy even for? \nA new (funny) play about what it means to be funny. \nStarring Bev Killick (Deadloch)\, Kevin Hofbauer (Dear Life)\, Tom Ballard (Tonightly)\, Tiana Hogben (Thank God You’re Here) and Lauren Bonner (Going Under). \nWritten by Tom Ballard. \nDirected by Ben Russell (Thank God You’re Here). \nBuy tickets \n\nTape Face\n20 \nCelebrating 20 years of TAPE FACE – the show returns to Australia for the first time in over 10 years! \nMime with noise\, stand-up with no talking\, drama with no acting. Las Vegas headliner TAPE FACE has become a global sensation. See the critically award-winning show that started it all. Physical comedy and silent stand-up collide in an unforgettable performance that will leave you laughing\, gasping and lost for words. TAPE FACE has to be seen to be believed. \nBuy tickets \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/melbourne-international-comedy-festival-2026/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs theatre\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne 3000\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:theatre
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SUMMARY:Punchlines
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nPunchlines\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nGroup exhibition\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]24 March – 18 April 2026 \nopening night:\nTuesday 24 March\, 5 – 8pm\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\n…Through laughter\, the artists expose contradictions\, challenge authority\, critique politics and culture\, or simply revel in the pleasure of making something funny… \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_btn title=”EXHIBITION CATALOGUE” color=”black” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Ffortyfivedownstairs.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F03%2FPunchlines-Catalogue_-1.pdf”][/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=””]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPunchlines is a group exhibition exploring the use of humour in contemporary art\, bringing together 38 of Australia’s funniest artists. \nSpanning painting\, drawing\, photography\, sculpture\, textiles\, mixed media\, digital art\, video art\, and experimental practices\, Punchlines highlights a wide range of mediums\, styles\, and subject matter\, united by a shared impulse to find the joke\, however subtle or subversive. \nThis humour may take many forms\, including (but not limited to): satire and social critique\, wordplay and visual puns\, absurdity\, surrealism\, dark humour\, pop art\, playful disruption\, appropriation\, or just plain silliness. Works may entertain\, surprise\, or unsettle\, using laughter to expose contradictions\, challenge authority\, critique politics or culture\, or simply revel in the joy of making something funny. \nThis exhibition is timed to coincide with the Melbourne International Comedy Festival\, which is taking over the theatre at fortyfivedownstairs. For a few weeks\, the building will be filled with artists and comedians alike\, both attempting to perfect the art of the punchline. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Participating artists” tab_id=”1772506001343-8f4aff4d-3e9e”][vc_column_text css=””]Alana Davis\, Al Roberts\, Alex Saveski\, Alice Gilbert\, Amanda Tonkin-Hill\, Anna Yao Mei Wang\, Benjamin Shaw\, Cameron Grant\, Cameron McGregor\, Catriona Fraser\, Charlotte Finley\, Cristina Perra\, Daisi Diddle\, Darren Frisina\, Emma Buckland\, Esme Stripp\, Falconeris Marimón\, Freya Cronin\, Gala Jane\, Hiro Feliciano\, Jean-Luc Syndikas\, Jennifer Burns\, Jincheng Deng\, Jon Potter\, Jooyun Lim\, Josh Dykgraaf\, Julian Di Martino\, Kristian V. Eldritch\, Liam Herne\, Liv McCarten\, Matthew Clarke\, Michael Fee\, Nicole Robertson\, Ponce A Delph\, Rosie Carr\, Takahiko Sugawara\, Vin Ryan & Vivek Khakhar.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/punchlines/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Summer's Rhythm
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nAdele Auchterlonie\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nSummer’s Rhythm\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]24 March – 18 April 2026\n\nopening night:\nTuesday 24 March\, 5 – 8pm \nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\n…The warmth of summer is not only physical but emotional; it slows us down [and] draws us together… \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_btn title=”EXHIBITION CATALOGUE” color=”black” align=”left” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Ffortyfivedownstairs.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F03%2FAdele-Auchterlonie-Catalogue_-3.pdf”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”]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=””]\nSummer’s Rhythm reflects on the Australian summer as something lived and felt\, rather than simply seen. It draws from the familiar rituals that shape the season; time spent in gardens surrounded by native plants\, diving into open water\, fishing for the evening meal\, sharing drinks in the sun\, and driving up the coast with friends as the landscape rolls by. \nThe collection is less about documenting these activities and more about capturing their atmosphere and how they make us feel. It considers the weight of heat in the air\, the way long days seem to stretch endlessly\, and how light settles over everything with a kind of softness and intensity at once. These repeated experiences form a quiet rhythm\, one that feels instinctive and deeply personal. \nAt its core\, Summer’s Rhythm explores how these seasonal moments become part of who we are. The warmth of summer is not only physical but emotional; it slows us down\, draws us together\, and allows us to notice the beauty in what might otherwise feel ordinary. Through a focus on light\, texture\, and mood\, the collection invites viewers to reconnect with the subtle richness of an Australian summer and the sense of comfort and belonging it creates. \n[/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=””]Adele Auchterlonie is a Tasmanian abstract expressionist artist and has been painting for six years. She creates bold\, vibrant works designed to bring energy into a space and evoke a strong emotional response. \nHer inspiration comes from everyday life and the beauty found in ordinary moments. Summer\, the ocean and the garden are constant influences. She grew up sailing\, and the rhythm and movement of the water continue to shape the way she paints. She is also inspired by long summer days\, warm light and time spent outdoors\, where heat softens everything and slows the pace of life. \nWorking primarily with mixed media on canvas\, Adele is drawn to expressive brushstrokes\, layered textures and intuitive mark making. Colour plays a central role in her practice and she uses it instinctively to capture movement and feeling. \nThrough her work\, she aims to capture the atmosphere of these familiar experiences and translate them into something expressive\, immersive and deeply felt.[/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:20260305
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SUMMARY:Year of the Rooster
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-theatre-company”]\nSpinning Plates Co. presents\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1761700975380{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-title”]\nYear of the Rooster by Olivia Dufault\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1761700756279{padding-bottom: 25px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-dates”]5 – 22 March 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_1772757665222{padding-top: 5px !important;}”]Thursday 5 March – Sunday 22 March 2026\n\npreview: Thursday 5 March\nopening night: Friday 6 March\nduration: 110 minutes with an interval\ntimes:\nTuesday to Saturday 7:30pm\nSunday 5pm\nticket price: $39 – $55\nbookings: 03 9662 9966 \nwarnings: Coarse language; adult themes; smoke\, haze and loud noises; staged violence and death; absurd depictions of blood\, gore and injections; artistic representations of (but no actual) nudity; references to ableism\, animal cruelty\, gambling\, homophobia\, misogyny\, suicide and transphobia. No live animals are used during this performance.[/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-b9f1a095-3ae9″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text css=””]Spinning Plates Co. are back to bring The Beast Trilogy to its bloody\, feathered conclusion following Green Room Award nominee RHINOCEROS in 2024 and three-time Green Room winner THE CROCODILE in 2023. \nGil is a loser. He works at McDonalds and still lives with Mother. But that’s all about to change because Gil has an ace up his sleeve: the biggest\, baddest barnyard bird the world has ever seen. When Odysseus Rex hits the local cockfighting ring\, there’ll be hell to pay… ‘cause this is gunna be his year\, damnit! \nOlivia Dufault’s YEAR OF THE ROOSTER is an “astonishingly entertaining”\, bizarrely comedic underdog story for our violent times. It’s Tennessee Williams\, but the rose-coloured glasses have been ripped off. It’s Homer’s Odyssey\, set in the backstreets of Oklahoma. It’s beautiful and appalling\, like a Happy Meal at 3am. \nPRAISE FOR THE CROCODILE & RHINOCEROS \n“★★★★½…every element of stagecraft merges with guillotine-sharp synergy” — Cameron Woodhead\, The Age \n“★★★★½…everything about Spinning Plates Co’s The Crocodile works” — Anna Hayes\, Theatre Matters \n“★★★★½…if you want to step through the looking glass into all the delights Melbourne theatre has to offer\, you couldn’t find a better place to start” — Vanessa Francesca\, Arts Hub \n“★★★★…a rampaging success…Spinning Plate Co has done it again” — Arts Hub \n“★★★★…pure comic pandemonium…an experience absolutely worth the ride” — Limelight \n“impeccable…a polished\, professional\, coruscating\, very entertaining evening that speaks to our times now. See it.” — Michael Brindley\, Stage Whispers \n“a wild mash of pantomime\, burlesque\, and meticulous ensemble work…pitch-perfect” —Australian Book Review \nBy permission of ORiGiN™ Theatrical on behalf of Playscripts\, Inc – A Concord Theatricals Company.[/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-b9f1a095-3ae9″][vc_column_text css=””]Director: Alexandra Aldrich \nCast: AYA\, James Cerché\, Natasha Herbert\, Zachary Pidd\, and Jessica Stanley \nSet & Costume Designer: Dann Barber \nLighting Designer: Rachel Burke \nSound Designer: Ian Moorhead \nLighting Associate: Sam Martin \nCostume Maker: Christie Milton \nStage Manager: Siena Bonnici \nAssistant Stage Manager: AJ Woodward \nContent Creator: Bridget Sweeney (Artistic Allsort) \nFight Choreographer: Scott Jackson \nPromotional Photography: Sarah Clarke \nProduction Photography: Cameron Grant\, Parenthesy \nProducer: Spinning Plates Co.[/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-b9f1a095-3ae9″][vc_column_text css=””]\nTicket Prices:\nPreview: $39\nFull: $55\nConcession: $45\nGroup 6+: $45\nMob tickets: $35 \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]
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LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs theatre\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne 3000\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:theatre
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SUMMARY:Monumental
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nMark Bo Chu\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nMonumental\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]3 March – 21 March 2026 \nopening night: \nTuesday 3 March\, 5pm – 7pm \nartist talk (+ Q&A): \nSaturday 14 March\, 2pm – 3pm\n\nopening hours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\n…In his gritty and vibrant style\, [Mark Bo Chu] presses at what makes a moment monumental… \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_btn title=”EXHIBITION CATALOGUE” color=”black” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Ffortyfivedownstairs.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F03%2FMark-Bo-Chu-Monumental-Catalogue.pdf”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″]'Freeform Camouflage'\, Mark Bo Chu\, acrylic on canvas\, 75 x 100cm.'Monumental' by Mark Bo Chu\, installation image\, 2026. Photographed by George Jefford. 'Monumental' by Mark Bo Chu\, installation image\, 2026. Photographed by George Jefford. 'The Ice Cream Van'\, Mark Bo Chu\, 75 x 60 cm. 'Monumental' by Mark Bo Chu\, installation image\, 2026. Photographed by George Jefford. 'Monumental' by Mark Bo Chu\, installation image\, 2026. Photographed by George Jefford. 'The Elbow'\, Mark Bo Chu\, acrylic on canvas\, 46 x 81 cm. 'Monumental' by Mark Bo Chu\, installation image\, 2026. Photographed by George Jefford. 'Everybody in the Place'\, Mark Bo Chu\, acrylic on canvas\, 102 x 75 cm. 'Monumental' by Mark Bo Chu\, installation image\, 2026. Photographed by George Jefford. 'Swotvac'\, Mark Bo Chu\, acrylic on canvas\, 46 x 81 cm. 'Monumental' by Mark Bo Chu\, installation image\, 2026. Photographed by George Jefford. 'Monumental' by Mark Bo Chu\, installation image\, 2026. Photographed by George Jefford. 'Monumental' by Mark Bo Chu\, installation image\, 2026. Photographed by George Jefford. 'Monumental' by Mark Bo Chu\, installation image\, 2026. Photographed by George Jefford. 'Monumental' by Mark Bo Chu\, installation image\, 2026. Photographed by George Jefford. 'Dormant'\, Mark Bo Chu\, acrylic on canvas\, 92 x 92 cm.  [/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=””]Magnificence occurs at all scales across a city\, from road markings to modernist statements\, and through the expressions of its denizens. In a new series of paintings\, Mark Bo Chu observes familiar and unfamiliar scenes across Melbourne\, focusing on singular and collective subjects. Chu depicts freeways and festivals as shared public experiences\, as well as work and friendship\, cherished in private. In his gritty and vibrant style\, he presses at what makes a moment monumental.[/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=””]Mark Bo Chu is a painter of the everyday in Melbourne. His artwork has appeared in Vice\, ABC\, SBS\, The Australian\, and the New York Times. Chu is also a science researcher\, publishing in venues like Cognition and Nature. He is a past writer for the Good Food Guide\, and has recorded as a piano soloist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Chu currently writes for To Be Magazine.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Events” tab_id=”1769737940164-172832dc-8b93″][vc_column_text css=””]Opening Night \nTuesday 3 March\, 5pm – 7pm \n  \nArtist Talk (+ Q&A) \nSaturday 14 March\, 2pm – 3pm[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]For sales inquiries\, please contact fortyfivedownstairs at gallery@fortyfivedownstairs.com or call 03 9662 9966.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/monumental/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:gallery
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SUMMARY:Liminal Fields
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nRia Green\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nLiminal Fields\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]3 March – 21 March 2026\n\nopening night:\nTuesday 3 March\, 5 – 7pm \nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\n… by capturing these visceral experiences of awe\, time is suspended momentarily enabling the sublime surfaces to reveal themselves… \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_btn title=”EXHIBITION CATALOGUE” color=”black” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Ffortyfivedownstairs.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F02%2FRia-Green-Liminal-Fields-catalogue-1.pdf”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″]'Liminal Field'\, Ria Green\, 2025\, gouache\, pigment\, dye\, water colour\, sand\, plaster\, textile\, board\, 50x40cm.'Liminal fields'\, Installation view\, 2026\, Photographed by George Jefford'Radiant Nature\, part 104'\, Ria Green\, 2024\, gouache\, water colour\, oxide\, dye\, plaster\, clay\, textile\, board\, framed in Victorian Ash\, 43x31cm. 'Meditation'\, Ria Green\, 2024\, gouache\, water colour\, oxide\, dye\, plaster\, textile\, board\, framed in Victorian Ash\, 42x31cm. 'Liminal fields'\, Installation view\, 2026\, Photographed by George Jefford'Dark Night'\, Ria Green\, 2024\, gouache\, water colour\, oxide\, dye\, plaster\, textile\, board\, framed in Victorian Ash\, 47x35cm. 'Liminal fields'\, Installation view\, 2026\, Photographed by George Jefford'Cumulonimbus'\, Ria Green\, 2024\, gouache\, water colour\, oxide\, dye\, sand\, clay\, plaster\, textile\, board\, framed in Victorian Ash\, 36x27cm. 'Liminal fields'\, Installation view\, 2026\, Photographed by George Jefford'Radiant Nature\, part 105'\, Ria Green\, 2024\, gouache\, water colour\, oxide\, dye\, sand\, plaster\, textile\, board\, framed in Victorian Ash\, 55x42cm. 'Liminal fields'\, Installation view\, 2026\, Photographed by George Jefford'Liminal fields'\, Installation view\, 2026\, Photographed by George Jefford'Liminal fields'\, Installation view\, 2026\, Photographed by George Jefford'Liminal fields'\, Installation view\, 2026\, Photographed by George Jefford'Liminal fields'\, Installation view\, 2026\, Photographed by George Jefford'Liminal fields'\, Installation view\, 2026\, Photographed by George Jefford[/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=””]\nRia Green is a multidisciplinary artist working and living in Naarm/Melbourne. Her work explores the resonance and affect of the environment on the spiritual\, emotional and physical self. Through the process of painting\, with a particular focus on raw materials\, colour and texture\, Ria’s practice presents abstracted representations of ephemeral moments of wonderment found in the natural world. By capturing these visceral experiences of awe\, time is suspended momentarily enabling the sublime surfaces to reveal themselves. In embracing the pictorial space\, Green’s paintings offer deeper contemplation and connection to the world around. \n  \nSupported by City of Melbourne Arts Grants.[/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=””]\nRia Green is a multidisciplinary artist working and living in Naarm/Melbourne. Ria Green holds a Master of Fine Art at RMIT University\, 2013 and a Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours at RMIT University\, 2007. Green has exhibited nationally and internationally since 2007\, including exhibitions in Turin\, Italy and Marnay-sur-Seine\, France. Local exhibitions include Modern Times\, Saint Cloche (Sydney)\, Counihan Gallery\, Blindside Gallery and Seventh Gallery in Melbourne. Green has developed her sense of materiality and methods through several artist residencies including Cortex Frontal\, Cortexrcult Cultural Association\, Arriolos\, Portugal\, Tribu de Trueno\, Bariloche\, Argentina and Fusion Gallery\, Inaudita Cultural Institution\, Turin\, Italy. Green’s work is held in numerous collections including State Library of Victoria\, National Library of Australia\, RMIT University and many private collections. \n  \nWebsite: riagreen.com \nInstagram: @ria.m.green.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]For sales inquiries\, please contact fortyfivedownstairs at gallery@fortyfivedownstairs.com or call 03 9662 9966.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/liminal-fields/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:gallery
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260217
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260301
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SUMMARY:Whispers Woven in Water\, Wings and Wildflowers
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nPam Davison\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nWhispers Woven in Water\, Wings and Wildflowers\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]17 February – 28 February 2026\n\nopening night: Tuesday 17 February\, 5 – 7 pm \ngallery hours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free \nartist mini-series: Saturday 21 & 28 February \n\nCurated Artist Walkthrough | 12:30 pm\nArtist in Conversation | 2:30 pm\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\n…a layered experience that dissolves the boundaries between image\, body\, and lived experience… \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″]Featuring framed photograph 'Sapphire wings on emerald waters' by Pam Davison and dress by Linda Britten‘Whispers Woven in Water\, Wind and Wildflowers’ installation view\, 2026. Photographed by George Jefford.‘Whispers Woven in Water\, Wind and Wildflowers’ installation view\, 2026. Photographed by George Jefford.‘Whispers Woven in Water\, Wind and Wildflowers’ installation view\, 2026. Photographed by George Jefford.‘Whispers Woven in Water\, Wind and Wildflowers’ installation view\, 2026. Photographed by George Jefford.‘Whispers Woven in Water\, Wind and Wildflowers’ installation view\, 2026. Photographed by George Jefford.‘Whispers Woven in Water\, Wind and Wildflowers’ installation view\, 2026. Photographed by George Jefford.‘Whispers Woven in Water\, Wind and Wildflowers’ installation view\, 2026. Photographed by George Jefford.‘Whispers Woven in Water\, Wind and Wildflowers’ installation view\, 2026. Photographed by George Jefford.‘Whispers Woven in Water\, Wind and Wildflowers’ installation view\, 2026. Photographed by George Jefford.‘Whispers Woven in Water\, Wind and Wildflowers’ installation view\, 2026. Photographed by George Jefford.'Sapphire wings on emerald waters'\, Pam Davison\, 2009\, Digital image printed on Moab Slickrock Metallic Pearl\, 50cm x 50cm.'The lightness of being'\, Pam Davison and Linda Bitten\, digital photograph\, 61x61cm'Dance of the floral fairy'\, Pam Davison\, 2025\, digital image printed on Moab Slickrock Metallic Pearl\, 50cm x 50cm.'Stillness after the storm'\, Pam Davison\, 2025\, Digital image printed on Moab Slickrock Metallic Pearl\, 50cm x 50cm.'Whispers Woven in Water Wings and Wildflowers' concept image. [/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text css=””]\nWhispers Woven in Water\, Wings & Wildflowers is an immersive art installation by Australian visual storyteller Pam Davison\, presented in collaboration with couture designer Linda Britten. Combining fine art photography\, couture garments\, sound\, and spatial design\, the exhibition explores memory as something lived\, embodied\, and continually shaping the present. \nExtending beyond the frame\, the installation transforms still images into sculptural garments. Davison’s photographs are printed onto fabric\, deconstructed\, and reassembled into couture gowns — allowing memory to move\, fold\, and breathe. The result is a layered experience that dissolves the boundaries between image\, body\, and lived experience. \nSet within a dreamlike garden environment\, the exhibition invites visitors to consider how memory is formed\, distorted\, preserved\, and worn. Sensory cues — water\, birdsong\, floral forms\, and sound — guide audiences through a contemplative space where perception slows and attention deepens. \n[/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=””]Pam is an artist who has achieved recognition and awards for her photography\, short stories\, playwriting and poetry. Since 2009\, she has concentrated primarily on photography. Her art has evolved through a series of major exhibitions into a practice that explores the creation and curation of memories (often involving the natural world) through a combination of photography\, prose\, and fashion. Pam creates a world where memories linger and dreams come true.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Opening Night” tab_id=”1770435273600-86b02422-432a”][vc_column_text css=””]\nTuesday 17th February\, 5-7PM\nJoin us for the unveiling of Whispers woven in water\, wings and wildflowers at fortyfive downstairs. Artist in attendance. \nFor media enquiries\, please contact Tracey – pdvs.exhibitions@gmail.com \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist Mini-Series” tab_id=”1769141550561-504c8d24-f60f”][vc_column_text css=””]Across Saturdays during the exhibition\, visitors are invited to engage more deeply through a series of intimate artist-led experiences\, offering insight into the making of the work\, the collaboration between photography and couture\, and the role of memory\, material\, and transformation. \n  \nCurated Artist Walkthrough | A guided walkthrough offering insight into the artworks\, garments\, and the transformation of photographs into sculptural form. \n\nSaturday 21st February\, 12:30PM\nSaturday 28th February\, 12:30PM\n\n  \nArtist in conversation (Q&A) | An intimate conversation with Pam Davison exploring memory\, material\, collaboration\, and the ideas that shaped the work. \n\nSaturday 21st February\, 2:30PM\nSaturday 28th February\, 2:30PM\n\n[/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:Independently Combining
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nCelia Bridle\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nIndependently Combining\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]17 February – 28 February 2026 \nopening night: Tuesday 17 February 2026\, 5 – 7pm \nfree workshop: Saturday 28 February\, 1 – 2 pm \ngallery opening hours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\n…curving\, sweeping lines…generate a sense of momentum and vibrancy as [they] unfurl across the space… \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″]'Independently Combining'\, Celia Bridle\, 2025\, framed digital print on archival paper\, 29.7 x 42 cm.'Independently Combining\,' installation image\, 2026. Photographed by George Jefford. 'Independently Combining\,' installation image\, 2026. Photographed by George Jefford. 'Independently Combining\,' installation image\, 2026. Photographed by George Jefford. 'Independently Combining\,' installation image\, 2026. Photographed by George Jefford. 'Independently Combining\,' installation image\, 2026. Photographed by George Jefford. 'Independently Combining\,' installation image\, 2026. Photographed by George Jefford. [/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″ title=”Artist Statement”][vc_column_text css=””]In her exhibition\, ‘Independently Combining’\, painter Celia Bridle expresses delicacy\, intimacy\, mobility and flow in her artwork. \nIn this exhibition\, there are 24 drawings\, a culmination of much detailed artwork using pen and ink. Her process also involves contemporary media in order to reduce the size of the drawings.  Once completed\, each hand-drawn image is scanned and printed at half its size\, because this smallness further enhances its intense and detailed nature. \nA memory from the past acted as an initial impetus for theses drawings. Celia remembers her experience of learning to write by hand when she was a young schoolgirl. Her teacher would trace letters of the alphabet in the air\, explaining how to draw each individual shape. \nAn example of the influence of this early experience is ‘Vibrant Promise’\, (2024)\, with its curving sweeping lines\, which refer to the dynamic shape of the letter ‘S’\, and generates a sense of momentum and vibrancy as lines unfurl across the space. The drawing\, ‘Turn Under’\, (2024)\, references the shape of the letter ‘O’\, with hair-like lines spinning around a central circular space and crossing each other repeatedly. The lines are turning and sweeping\, under and over each other. Coloured lines\, turquoise and pink\, mingle and weave with overlapping flourishes. \nA sequence of new drawings followed when the artist’s connection to her early experience of alphabetical forms dropped away and\, instead\, she drew abstract images by hand\, using pen and ink as before. \n‘Inventive Impetus’\, (2025)\, is a cluster of dynamic\, sweeping lines forming diagonal.  It is an exploration of intense and intimate spaces. ‘Layered Endeavour\, (2025)\, is an example of the artist’s preoccupation with circular shapes\, where most of the lines are laid down independently\, gradually\, and building\, layer upon layer\, a construction that is mobile\, intense and detailed. \nIn her role as an artist for Note Printing Australia\, a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank\, and producer of polymer banknotes for Australia and internationally\, Celia Bridle attended training in Switzerland. She was taught by a resident engraver in the skills of his profession and was shown how to interpret the engraving method in order to draw in the style of an engraver. The engraver worked under magnification\, (using a microscope)\, cutting fine lines into a metal surface. Once completed his engraving was ready for printing on the surface of a banknote. \nCelia Bridle’s artwork continues to be inspired by an assiduous approach to line and engraving’s measured configuration and intense immersion.[/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=””]Celia Bridle lived in tropical Africa\, attending school and working there as a trainee teacher before leaving home and family to attend Art College in the UK. Four years later she graduated with a degree in Fine Art\, (Drawing and Painting). \nCelia worked as a high school art teacher for two years\, then as an artist in book publishing\, commissioned for an extensive range of subjects — botanical\, medical and scientific imagery. Her artwork was published in the UK and exhibited in Munich and London. \nWishing to see the world\, Celia went to Papua New Guinea with her partner\, continuing to draw for publication. Moving to Melbourne in 1985 she was commissioned by publishers\, then offered the position of illustrator in the Faculty of Archaeology\, La Trobe University. \nIn order to update her computer skills and build a better understanding of the potential of electronic media\, Celia studied part-time at the Dept of Creative Media\, RMIT\, graduating in 1999 with an Advanced Diploma of Art (Electronic Design and Interactive Media) \nHer role as an artist with Note Printing Australia spanned 2001-2004 which included training in Switzerland in the engraving style of drawing. In 2005 Celia was accepted to study drawing at The Slade School of Fine Art\, Summer School\, University College\, London\, and In 2007 she gained a Master of Fine Art at R MIT Melbourne.In 2005 she moved into a workspace in the city\, and was there\, in The Nicholas Building\, Flinders Lane\, until 2023\, when she relocated to Eltham\, Melbourne\, where she has a November 2025 workspace.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Events” tab_id=”1769673422062-c4d392d7-4998″][vc_column_text css=””]Opening Night \nTuesday 17 February\, 5pm – 7pm \n  \nFree Workshop \nSaturday 28 February\, 1pm – 2pm \nCelia Bridle will lead a guided pen and ink drawing session inspired by her latest exhibition[/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
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SUMMARY:Cyrano de Bergerac
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-theatre-company”]\nArtefact Theatre Company presents\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1764045223776{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-title”]\nCyrano de Bergerac by Martin Crimp\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1770351266136{padding-bottom: 25px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-dates”]12 – 28 February 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_1770880658702{padding-top: 5px !important;}”]Thursday 12 – Saturday 28 February 2026\n\npreview: Thursday 12 February\nopening night: Friday 13 February\nduration: 170 minutes including interval\ntimes:\nTuesday to Saturday 7:30pm\nSunday 5pm\nticket price: $35 – $55\nbookings: 03 9662 9966 \nwarnings: swearing\, dynamic sound & lighting incl. strobe effect\, depictions of bullying\, depictions of war\, sexual references\, adult themes[/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-b9f1ef9a-d04c” title=”Description”][vc_column_text css=””]A genius with language but convinced of his own ugliness\, Cyrano secretly loves the radiant Roxane — who’s fallen for the beautiful but inarticulate Christian. When Cyrano offers to ghost-write his rival’s seduction\, he sets in motion a poignant\, hilarious\, and ultimately devastating love triangle where performance and authenticity become fatally entangled. \nMartin Crimp’s radical adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s masterwork strips the romance down to its brutal core: a linguistic tour-de-force that examines the cost of forsaking who we are for who we feel we should be. This is Cyrano for the modern age — an unflinching examination of identity\, masculinity\, and desire. \nDirected by Matthew Cox and featuring a razor-sharp ensemble\, this isn’t the Cyrano you think you know.[/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-b9f1ef9a-d04c”][vc_column_text css=””]Cast: Mark Yeates\, Cazz Bainbridge\, Annabelle Tudor\, Louis Lucente\, Callum O’Malley\, Bushu Fan Chol\, Dion Zapantis\, Jasper Mclorinan\, Dominic Gruenewald\, Samuel Arandez\, Harry Harris\, Adam Hetherington\, Ruby Mountford\, Mikaela Cummins\, Enya Daly\, Jen Bush\, Govind Kumar\, and Eli Carasso \nDirector: Matthew Cox \nAssistant Director: Rebecca Stephens \nSet Designer: Ashley Reid \nCostume Designer: Dylan Lumsden \nLighting Designer: Tim Bonser \nSound Designer: Sebastian Herrera \nIntimacy Coordinator: Jessica Stanley \nStage Manager: Seamus Allan \nCo-Producers: Artefact Theatre Co\, Matthew Cox\, Mark Yeates\, Sarah Cuthbert \nCompany Manager: Sarah Cuthbert[/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-b9f1ef9a-d04c”][vc_column_text css=””]\nTicket Prices:\nPreview: $35\nFull: $55\nConcession: $45\nGroup 6+: $45\nEARLYBIRD: $49 \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]
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LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs theatre\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne 3000\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:theatre
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SUMMARY:Australian Theatres Unveiled
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nCameron Grant\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nAustralian Theatres Unveiled\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]5 February – 14 February 2026\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nSunday 8 February: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\n…featuring theatres from around the country and revealing the physical spaces that shape their cultural identity… \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″]'Regent Theatre\, Melbourne I'\, Cameron Grant 2024\, Canson ARCHES BFK Rives White 310gsm Matte print\, 84cm X 60cm.  ‘Australian Theatres Unveiled’ installation view\, 2026. ‘Australian Theatres Unveiled’ installation view\, 2026. ‘Australian Theatres Unveiled’ installation view\, 2026. ‘Australian Theatres Unveiled’ installation view\, 2026. ‘Australian Theatres Unveiled’ installation view\, 2026. ‘Australian Theatres Unveiled’ installation view\, 2026. ‘Australian Theatres Unveiled’ installation view\, 2026. ‘Australian Theatres Unveiled’ installation view\, 2026. ‘Australian Theatres Unveiled’ installation view\, 2026. ‘Australian Theatres Unveiled’ installation view\, 2026. ‘Australian Theatres Unveiled’ installation view\, 2026. ‘Australian Theatres Unveiled’ installation view\, 2026.[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″ title=”Artist Statement”][vc_column_text css=””]Since 2023\, I have been developing this series that celebrates the architecture and heritage of Australia’s major theatre venues. The collection spans front-facing facades\, through stage doors\, and backstage\, featuring theatres from around the country and revealing the physical spaces that shape their cultural identity. Each work honours the character of these venues\, and the emotional history they hold for performers\, patrons\, and the community. \nAs a performer myself – having graduated as an actor at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2018 – there is a deep nostalgia when revisiting an old theatre. I’ve listened to countless stories from colleagues detailing the “second homes” they’ve formed in dressing rooms\, kitchenettes\, and pitch-black sidestage wings. This series serves as a way to commemorate those stories and preserve their memories. \nIn a post-COVID industry [especially in Melbourne] the significance of live theatre has deepened significantly. Spaces once taken for granted now carry deeper meaning\, both as cultural landmarks and as vessels for shared experiences. I seek to honour that significance by presenting theatres in a new light that elevates the beauty\, history\, and stories embedded in these buildings\, merging the boundaries of digital photography with fine-art presentation in a way that reflects and celebrates Australian theatre culture. \nMy first exhibition\, held at my Brunswick East studio in July 2024\, received recognition from industry leaders and marked the beginning of a broader mission: to create a visual archive of Australia’s theatre landscape. I hope to see the works proudly feature on peoples living room walls; hanging next to cherished posters and ticket stubs\, and the rooms of hotels that house touring artists so regularly. Australian Theatres Unveiled stands as an ongoing commitment to preserving and celebrating the venues that have shaped generations of performers and audiences across the country.[/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=””]Cameron Grant is a Melbourne-based live performance photographer and Director of Parenthesy [a digital media production house]\, specialising in theatre\, musical theatre\, live music\, dance\, and circus. His work captures the emotion\, craft\, and energy of live performance\, helping preserve and elevate Australia’s vibrant performing arts community. \nDriven by a passion for storytelling and authenticity\, Cameron has quickly become one of Melbourne’s leading performance photographers. His images have appeared in international and local publications including Rolling Stone Magazine\, Deadline\, Disney Official\, and as a regular appearance in local news sites like The Guardian\, and Aussie Theatre. He has worked with major organisations such as Arts Centre Melbourne\, Michael Cassel Group\, GWB Entertainment\, and Crossroads Live\, providing photographic services across Australia and internationally on productions including recently seen Beetlejuice\, Miss Saigon\, The Talented Mr Ripley\, Anastasia\, and Disney’s The Lion King. \nIn 2024\, Cameron developed and presented the first instalment of “Australian Theatres Unveiled”\, a photographic series celebrating the architecture and heritage of Australia’s major theatre venues. The first instalment was exhibited at his Brunswick East studio\, drawing national industry leaders and strong public interest. The series continues to expand and the full collection will open at FortyFive Downstairs in February 2026\, showcasing theatre architecture as both cultural heritage and fine art. \nCameron continues to collaborate closely with artists and organisations to document their creative work with professionalism and care. Through Parenthesy\, he aims to strengthen and support Australia’s live performance sector in a post-COVID world\, producing high-quality imagery that celebrates\, sustains\, and shares the stories of the performing arts with honesty and impact. \n  \nExhibitions: \n2026: Solo exhibition – Australian Theatres Unveiled \n2024: Solo exhibition – Australian Theatres Unveiled \n2024: Group exhibition – Hillvale Photo Trophy \n  \nWebsite: parenthesyprints.com.au \nInstagram @parenthesyprints[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Events” tab_id=”1765437706313-2a9132e3-7b08″][vc_column_text css=””]February 5th – February 14th \nVenue capacities are flexible\, however ticket distribution helps manage numbers. Tickets are free and can be registered at the door – a souvenir for attendance is redeemable with proof of ticket. \nTo register your booking\, visit: \nhttps://www.simpletix.com/e/australian-theatres-unveiled-exhibition-tickets-249706[/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
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SUMMARY:Group Exhibition Call-Out: Punchlines
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nGroup Exhibition Call-Out\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nPunchlines\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_column_text css=””]\nExpressions of Interest Now Open! \nSubmission Deadline: Monday 2 March 2026\, Midnight \nExhibition runs: 24 March – 18 April 2026 \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_column_text css=””]\nfortyfivedownstairs is now accepting expressions of interest from artists to participate in Punchlines\, a group exhibition exploring the use of humour in contemporary art.\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″ title=”Information”][vc_column_text css=””]fortyfivedownstairs is now accepting expressions of interest from artists to participate in Punchlines\, a group exhibition exploring the use of humour in contemporary art. The exhibition will run from 24 March – 18 April 2026. \nWe’re looking for artworks that make us smirk\, snigger\, snort\, chuckle\, giggle\, lol\, crack up\, guffaw\, gasp for air\, pee our pants – or even literally die laughing. \nThis visual humour may take many forms\, including (but not limited to): satire and social critique\, wordplay and visual puns\, absurdity\, surrealism\, dark humour\, pop art\, playful disruption\, appropriation\, or just plain silliness. Works may entertain\, surprise\, or unsettle\, using laughter to expose contradictions\, challenge authority\, critique politics or culture\, or simply revel in the joy of making something funny. \nSubmissions are welcome across all mediums\, stylistic approaches\, and subject matter\, including painting\, photography\, sculpture\, textiles\, installation\, digital media\, and experimental practices. \nPlease note: \n\nCapacity for large 3D works and installations is limited.\nSmaller 3D works must be wall-hung or presented on a shelf (artists must supply their own display supports).\n\nPunchlines offers a great opportunity to show new work\, engage with collectors\, promote your practice\, or experiment within a professional gallery setting. Group exhibitions at fortyfivedownstairs allow artists to exhibit alongside both emerging and established peers without the pressure of a solo show. \nThis exhibition will coincide with the Melbourne International Comedy Festival\, which will be taking over the theatre at fortyfivedownstairs. Last year\, the MICF attracted 5\,000 patrons to our venue\, all of whom passed through the gallery before the comedy shows\, making this a fantastic opportunity to showcase your work to a large audience. \nExhibition Fees \nSubmitting an expression of interest is free. Only artists selected to exhibit will be required to pay the exhibition fee. \n\nUp to 6 artworks may be accepted per artist.\n1–2 artworks: $100 per artwork\n3 or more artworks: $80 per artwork\nStandard artwork size: 80 × 80 cm or under\nWorks larger than 80 cm on any side may attract a higher fee\n\nTerms & Conditions \n\nfortyfivedownstairs curates exhibitions carefully and may limit the number of works displayed per artist based on artwork size and available wall space.\nA 15% commission is retained on all sold works.\nSelected artists must sign an artist agreement outlining the rights and responsibilities of both artist and gallery.\nArtists must supply high-resolution images and full artwork details (title\, medium\, dimensions\, and price) by Monday 9 March 2026.\nAll artworks must be completed and delivered to the gallery by 5:00 PM\, Saturday 21 March 2026.\nThe exhibition will open with a public opening celebration from 5–7 PM on Tuesday 24 March 2026.\n\nHow to Apply \nTo submit your proposal\, please email gallery@fortyfivedownstairs.com with the following: \n\nA short statement about the proposed artworks\nA short statement about your practice\nImages of the artworks\, including details: Title\, Year\, Medium\, Edition (if applicable)\, Dimensions\, and Price\n\nSUBMISSION DEADLINE: MONDAY 2 MARCH 2026\, MIDNIGHT[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Memories; Vivid\, False and Lost
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nAlison Russell\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nMemories; Vivid\, False and Lost\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]3 February – 14 February 2026\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\n…each artwork [is] both an act of remembering and an acknowledgement of forgetting\, an attempt to map moments that are simultaneously clear and elusive… \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″]'Memories; Vivid\, False and Lost’ installation view\, 2026.'Twisted Tendrils'\, Alison Russell\, 2024\, pastel on paper\, 190 x 95 cm.'Memories; Vivid\, False and Lost’ installation view\, 2026.'Memories; Vivid\, False and Lost’ installation view\, 2026.'Beyond reach'\, Alison Russell\, 2025\, pastel on paper\, 130 x 90 cm. 'Memories; Vivid\, False and Lost’ installation view\, 2026.'Memories; Vivid\, False and Lost’ installation view\, 2026.'Blue Depths'\, Alison Russell\, 2024\, pastel on paper\, 130 x 90 cm. 'Memories; Vivid\, False and Lost’ installation view\, 2026.'Memories; Vivid\, False and Lost’ installation view\, 2026.'Fallen Within'\, Alison Russell\, 2024\, pastel and graphite on paper\, 130 x 90 cm. 'Memories; Vivid\, False and Lost’ installation view\, 2026.'Memories; Vivid\, False and Lost’ installation view\, 2026.[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″ title=”Artist Statement”][vc_column_text css=””]\nMemories: Vivid\, False and Lost examines the fragile\, shifting and often contradictory nature of human memory – how it shapes our understanding of ourselves\, how it distorts what we believe to be true\, and how it sometimes abandons us entirely. Memory is never fixed; it is an unstable interplay between what is vividly recalled\, what is unconsciously fabricated\, and what slips quietly beyond reach. This tension lies at the core of my drawing practice. \nMy work emerges from the subconscious\, where memories do not announce themselves as linear narratives but surface instead through instinctive gestures. I rely on automatic drawing as a process of excavation\, allowing the hand to reveal traces of past experiences that the mind may only partially recognise. Each artwork becomes both an act of remembering and an acknowledgement of forgetting\, an attempt to map moments that are simultaneously clear and elusive. \nVivid memories manifest through dense colour\, intensity and texture. Strong\, determined shapes assert themselves confidently across the page\, reflecting recollections that remain intact and emotionally charged. In contrast\, fragmented or overlapping forms point to memories that are blurred\, conflicted or indecisive – echoes that feel present yet unresolved. \nI am especially drawn to false memories\, those subtle inventions of the subconscious that fill narrative voids. Ambiguity permeates my work as familiar forms are reimagined into shapes that feel both recognisable and alien. \nLost memories appear in areas left intentionally incomplete\, faded or erased. These quiet voids evoke haziness or absence\, suggesting the inevitable gaps that time creates. Sharp\, defined imagery surrounded by soft\, floating shapes represent memories that have endured while the surrounding context has dissolved. \nThe yupo paper itself becomes part of this narrative. Its unique surface retains traces of earlier marks\, allowing ghosts of previous layers to remain visible – much like the faint residues of forgotten experiences. \nUltimately\, memory is not a reliable archive but a creative\, continually revised act of the mind. Through my drawings\, I invite viewers to reflect on their own shifting recollections and consider how easily truth and fiction intertwine within the landscape of memory. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist CV” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″][vc_column_text css=””]Education\n1989- Bachelor of Fine Art majoring in Printmaking\, Monash University\, Caulfield \nSolo Exhibitions\n2022- Fortyfive Downstairs Gallery\, Melbourne\n2019- Acufitz\, Melbourne\n2018- Cambridge Studio Gallery\, Melbourne \nGroup Exhibitions\n2019- Emerge\, Brunswick Street Gallery\, Melbourne\n2018- Finalist in Life Abstracted\, Cambridge Studio Gallery\, Melbourne\n2008- Alafia Gallery\, Melbourne\nGasworks Arts Park\, Melbourne\n2007- Gasworks Arts Park\, Melbourne\n2006- Gasworks Arts Park\, Melbourne\n1990- Linden Gallery\, Melbourne\n1989- Caulfield Arts Complex\, Melbourne \nWebsite: alisonrussellart.com\nInstagram: @alisonrussellart[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Events” tab_id=”1768272895838-ae13829c-8ea8″][vc_column_text css=””]Opening Night \nTuesday 3 February\, 5-7pm[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:The Highly Strung Players
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1763429859998{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-title”]\nThe Highly Strung Players\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1763429869680{padding-bottom: 25px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-dates”]Monday 2 February 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″]Peter Rose \nGeorgina Banks \nClaudio Bozzi \nEllie Nielsen \n[/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_1763430025282{padding-top: 5px !important;}”]Monday 2 February 2026\n\nduration: 80 minutes\ntimes: 7pm\nticket price: $25 – $40\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-b9f1a37e-8afc” title=”Description”][vc_column_text css=””]Following a sellout performance in 2024\, The Highly Strung Players return to fortyfivedownstairs with two plays by award-winning author Peter Rose\, who founded this absurdist troupe more than thirty years ago. These are rehearsed readings\, with a changing ensemble. The Highly Strung Players began appearing at fortyfivedownstairs in 2017. \nThe Innominable – a new play to be performed by Georgina Banks and Ellie Nielsen – introduces us to twin sisters in their fifties. They are waiting to collect their mother’s ashes. One of them (Glen-Rae) was named at birth. The other – known as the Innominable – was never named. Now she wants to know why. \nThe Siegfried Idyll – a duologue to be performed by Peter Rose and Claudio Bozzi – presents a seemingly contented gay couple contemplating the seismic repercussions of ‘a night at the opera’. Conrad is a capricious restaurateur\, Toby a long-suffering arborist. The Siegfried Idyll had one performance at fortyfivedownstairs in December 2024. \n“The Highly Strung Players’ original absurdist works are playful\, witty and multi-layered. Renowned wordsmith Peter Rose has a fine sense of what lies beneath the surface of relationships and social interaction. His clever duologues highlight our foibles and delusions with sensitivity and humour.” Helen Morse[/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-b9f1a37e-8afc”][vc_column_text css=””]Georgina Banks – a writer\, facilitator\, and performer – was a professional actor in her twenties\, studying acting in New York and then working in theatre and television for over a decade (including Sydney Theatre Company\, Playbox\, Theatre South\, A Country Practice\, and Outback). In 2023\, she published her first book\, Back to Bangka. She began appearing with the Highly Strung Players in 2025. \nClaudio Bozzi has made two appearances with the Highly Strung Players: All Those Sunsets (2023) and The Siegfried Idyll (2024). A barrister and legal academic\, he is currently writing a book on the legalities of the Ukraine War. He prefers to spend the southern winter harvesting hay on his farm in Italy. \nEllie Nielsen holds a degree from VCA drama school and a Master of Creative Writing from RMIT University. As a Naarm (Melbourne)-based actor\, writer and dramaturg\, her work focuses on new and independent theatre. She is the author of the internationally published memoir\, Buying a Piece of Paris\, and has performed with the Highly Strung Players since 2023. \nPeter Rose is a poet\, novelist and memoirist. Attention\, Please! (2025) is his seventh book of poetry. Rose Boys\, a family memoir\, won the 2003 National Biography Award. He founded the Highly Strung Players in 1989 and revived it in 2017. His plays include the five-part The Ones. He was for many years Editor of Australian Book Review.[/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-b9f1a37e-8afc”][vc_column_text css=””]\nTicket Prices:\nFull: $40\nConcession: $25\nGroup 6+: $25 \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]Buy Tickets [/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/the-highly-strung-players-2/
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