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SUMMARY:Emerging Artist Award 2022
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\npresented by fortyfivedownstairs\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nEmerging Artist Award 2022\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]27 September – 8 October 2022\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 6pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm\nTuesday and Friday evenings: 6pm – 8pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text]View Exhibition Online [/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section title=”About” tab_id=”1664252694418-d7e5559c-a966″][vc_column_text]fortyfivedownstairs presents the eighth annual Emerging Artist Award 2022. \nIt is a pleasure to announce that fortyfivedownstairs will once again be filled with the work of emerging artists for a multi-disciplinary exhibition that explores our engagement with the natural and built environment\, interrogates familial relationships through sensory experiences\, and challenges our very sense of identity. \nGuest judge Anouska Phizacklea (BA (hons)\, MA\, MCom\, CPA\, GAICD) is Director of Monash Gallery of Art (MGA) awwarded the artists whose submissions most closely align with the award criteria of originality\, technical proficiency\, and creative vision. Phizacklea has expertise across the visual\, decorative and literary arts. She has held senior management positions at leading Victorian public institutions\, Heide Museum of Modern Art and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA)\, and worked for many years in art research and valuations in galleries and auction houses in Melbourne and London. \nA $3000 prize pool was awarded to the two submissions that best aligned with the award criteria – In My Mind (the voices that tear me apart) by Madeleine Joy Dawes and Pixel by Rhys Cousins. \nFor the first time\, a new third prize for Highest Commendation was awarded to we are made to be held by Jae O’Donnell\, who will be receiving a professional development opportunity courtesy of the MGA. \nAs well\, the People’s Choice Award gives the audience a chance to have their say. For those who can’t visit in person\, an online catalogue and our social media channels will be available with information and images. \nAll our prizes are made possible by our generous sponsors. \nThe Emerging Artist Award finalists for 2022 are: Alison Ford\, Amina Briggs\, Angie Hiscock\, Ashton Wastney\, CJ Starc\, Derrick Duan\, Elena Larkin\, Em Jensen\, Erica Elgin\, Grae Burnished\, Ian Scott\, Jae O’Donnell\, Jake Taylor\, Jean Baulch\, Jess Coldrey\, Lala Zarei\, Latifa Elmrini\, Lauren Joffe\, Lilyan Stark\, Lucy Ray\, Madeleine Joy Dawes\, Monika Cvitanovic Zaper\, Nathalia Suizu\, Olivia McCarten\, Rhys Cousins\, Ruth Stanton\, Ryan Pola\, Ryley Clarke and Victoria McGinness. \nThe Emerging Artist Award at fortyfivedownstairs is a proven catalyst for ongoing recognition and professional development and allows audiences the privilege of accessing early-career works by exciting emerging artists. \nThe Emerging Artist Award 2022 is proudly supported by the Future Leaders\, MAGMA Art Projects\, The Cuming Bequest and Wild Fire Wines. \n      [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Programming” tab_id=”1664252694434-42cc85fc-7f33″][vc_column_text]Opening Event & Winner Announcement: Tuesday 27 September 6pm – 8pm \nTHE EMERGING SERIES \nEmerging Collectors Panel Discussion: Friday 30 September\, 6:00pm – 7:30pm\nwith Anouska Phizacklea\, Tim Abdallah\, and Liv Kenney \nThe Emerging Collectors Panel discussion is for those who are looking to understand more about what it means to collect art and how to begin curating a meaningful art collection. \nAnouska Phizacklea (BA (hons)\, MA\, MCom\, CPA\, GAICD) is the guest judge of the Emerging Artist Award and Director of Monash Gallery of Art (MGA). Phizacklea has expertise across the visual\, decorative and literary arts. She has held senior management positions at leading Victorian public institutions\, Heide Museum of Modern Art and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA)\, and worked for many years in art research and valuations in galleries and auction houses in Melbourne and London. \nTim Abdallah is a Fine Art Specialist with more than thirty-five years experience working in auction houses\, public museums and commercial art galleries in Australia\, England\, Germany and Italy. He is a graduate of Monash University School of Fine Art\, and has also studied at the University of Melbourne as well as privately in London. He joined Lawsons in 2002 as Head of Art and until 2017 was Head of Art\, Menzies Art Brands. At present he is pursuing a consulting practice\, writing and lecturing on art\, and performing valuations under the terms of the Commonwealth Government Cultural Gifts Program. \nLiv Kenney is a visual arts curator and researcher. Liv has worked in collections management\, exhibition development\, and arts administration in the public arts sector\, not-for-profit organisations\, and private museums. She is passionate about accessibility and audience engagement and is currently undertaking a PhD in Visual Arts at La Trobe University\, developing curatorial methodologies to address the absence of images of women in colonial Australian art collections. \nEmerging Artists Panel Discussion: Friday 7 October\, 6:00pm – 7:30pm\nwith Diego Ramírez\, Marisa Mu\, and Tessa Spooner \nFree to attend by RSVP to communications@fortyfivedownstairs.com \nThe Emerging Artists Panel discussion is for emerging artists looking to hear from seasoned industry professionals on how to enrich and develop a sustainable and meaningful art practice. \nDiego Ramírez is an artist\, editor and director originally from the Catholic capital of Guadalajara\, Mexico. Ramírez completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at RMIT University and an Honours Degree of Fine Arts at Monash University. He is represented by MARS Gallery and is currently the Director of SEVENTH Gallery as well as Editor-at-large at Running Dog. \nMarisa Mu is a practicing artist\, designer\, maker and winner of the 2019 Emerging Artist Award at fortyfivedownstairs. Marisa graduated with Bachelor of Design at The College of Fine Arts in 2014. Marisa’s purpose is to spark happiness and positive change within people through her art. Painting has become a form of therapy for her over the years and celebrating cultural diversity\, womanhood and naked candidness is an embodiment of Marisa\, both personally and professionally. \nTessa Spooner is the current Gallery Manager at fortyfivedownstairs. She is a senior arts manager with over 15 years industry experience in theatre and the visual arts\, dedicated to promoting independent arts and furthering the reach of artists and their vision. 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The six members of the smallCHESTRA explore the meeting point between folk melody\, jazz harmony and textural improvisation through a series of compositions written by Melville that allow and encourage spontaneous interaction\, introductions and endings as soloists\, duos and trios. \nFeaturing Melbourne jazz veterans Ronny Ferella (drums)\, Tamara Murphy (bass)\, Robbie Melville (guitar)\, Gideon Brazil (tenor saxophone\, alto flute) and Flora Carbo (alto saxophone/bass clarinet)\, and classical cellist Zoe Knighton\, the smallCHESTRA creates a spectacular range of dynamic and timbral possibilities in a relatively small package\, and blurs the barriers between contemporary folk\, jazz and classical. \n“Think Frisellian-cowboy-quirkestra ambling along with a cup of tea in one hand and a stein of beer in t’other. 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Gideon plays saxophones\, flute and clarinet and performs regularly with original jazz projects including: Adam Simmons Creative Music Ensemble\, Brenton Foster Sextet\, Jazzlab Orchestra and his own group\, The Natives. \nGideon has performed and recorded with some of Australia’s finest artists including Gotye\, Paul Kelly\, Vika & Linda\, Eddie Perfect\, Luke Howard\, Orchestra Victoria\, Bennetts Lane Big Band\, Hoodoo Mayhem New Orleans Brass Band\, The Black Diamonds\, Adrian Sherriff\, Andrea Keller\, Eamon McNelis\, Eugene Ball\, Marc Hannaford\, Ronny Ferella\, Scott Tinkler and Shannon Barnett. \nGideon studied classical music at the Melbourne University Conservatorium of Music and jazz at the Victorian College of the Arts. He is also a sought after educator\, currently teaching at Melbourne Polytechnic. \n  \nFLORA CARBO is a Naarm (Melbourne) based saxophonist who is quickly becoming one of the most exciting young artists in the Australian jazz scene. Flora’s practice explores the vocal quality of the alto saxophone and the improvisatory and compositional boundaries between genres. \nHaving studied with Julien Wilson\, Melissa Aldana\, Jim Denley and Scott McConnachie\, Flora has performed extensively in Melbourne and around Australia and at festivals including Wangaratta Festival of Jazz\, Melbourne International Jazz Festival and the Stonnington Jazz Festival. \nCompleting a Bachelor of Music (Degree with Honours) at the University of Melbourne and the James Morrison Academy in 2019\, she has worked with world renowned artists including pianists Barney McAll and Andrea Keller\, as well composing and playing with The Rest Is Silence\, The Floor Is Well\, Thanks\,  Flora Carbo Trio\, Magnify and most recently Ecosystem. Their debut performance of new works premiered at the Melbourne Recital Centre Salon in July 2021. \nThe Take Note Leader for 2022 (Melbourne International Jazz Festival)\, Flora was nominated for the Freedman Jazz Fellowship in 2021\, 2019 and 2018 and as a finalist for the Young Australian Jazz Artist of the Year at the 2019 Australian Jazz Bell Awards. In May 2017 she won the James Morrison Scholarship at the Generations in Jazz Festival\, in 2016 she was selected as one of the 10 finalists in the National Jazz Awards. \nIn 2018\, Flora toured internationally with the ‘Company 2’ circus production ‘Scotch and Soda’\, participated in the 2019 Banff Workshop for Jazz and Creative Music in Banff\, Canada and is a part of the ongoing Isolation Improvisation Collective restlessly creating throughout the pandemic. \nFlora’s latest release ‘Arthur’s Walks’ was released in Feb 2022\, ‘VOICE’ in 2020 and ‘Erica’ in 2018. \n  \nRONNY FERELLA \nSince moving to Melbourne from Adelaide in 1995 Ronny has regularly performed in the jazz\, blues and experimental music scene with many of Australia’s leading performers. As well as a recognised composer and bandleader he is an in demand sideman and very active in the Melbourne music community organising concerts\, workshops and opportunities for non mainstream music performances. \nAs a bandleader Ronny led and composed for the successful group IshIsh\, which released five CDs and toured extensively around Australia as well as performing in Europe at the prestigious Umbria Jazz Festival (Italy) and Pori Festival (Finland). More recently he has led the group Wayfinders  and performs in the cooperatively led and highly regarded groups Omelette\, Peon and I Hold The Lion’s Paw. For the last 21 years he has played in and co-managed the Michelle Nicolle Quartet\, in which time the band has released eight recordings and toured all around Australia and many major festivals in Europe and throughout Asia. Highlights include South Korea\, Finland\, and Czech Republic\, Asia Pacific Festival (Russia)\, Tokyo Jazz Festival\, North Sea Jazz Festival (Holland)\, New Zealand\, Turkey\, Estonia\, Indonesia and Singapore. In 2018 Ronny travelled to Czech Republic and Germany where he performed his own music in collaboration with musicians Libor Smoldas  and Peter Ehwald. \nRonny has been involved in the presenting of concerts since 1992. He has been on committee boards for the South Australian Jazz Development Office\, Melbourne Jazz Co-op and on the advisory panel for Sound Travellers Aus Arts Council. He was co-director of five Half Bent Festivals 2003-2007\, director of Melbourne University New Moon Festival 2017-18\, and a founding member of the Melbourne Jazz Fringe. He has also been involved in jazz forums presented by the Australia Council for the Arts. He is a committee member of the Moreland City Band which provides rehearsal and performance space and tutoring for over 14 bands and music organisations as well as presenting concerts for emerging artists. \nHis most recent project is the volunteer organisation\, small space music which aims to bring together curious listeners and small non mainstream music venues in Melbourne and regional Victoria. He is currently working with the venues The Brunswick Green and Cross Street where he helps to book young up and coming bands and artists to perform side by side with more established artists. \nIshIsh are an Australian musical phenomenon. Their conception is at once unashamedly accessible and highly challenging\, while each individual player is a true virtuoso. While transcendental looseness and abandon abounds\, impeccably tight ensemble and intonation is available when this too is required. Precious few groups can do both these things and produce music so simultaneously fascinating and moving. It is music for the head\, heart and feet…” – Mark Isaac Music Forum\n \n  \nZOE KNIGHTON \nAfter starting cello at the age of nine with Jill Kahans\, and graduating from the University of Melbourne with the highest mark of her year\, Zoe went on to establish herself as one of the country’s most sought after cellists. Having studied with Christian Wojtowicz\, Michel Strauss (Paris) Nelson Cooke\, and Angela Seargeant\, she is now in demand as chamber coach and teacher at various institutions. A regular panelist for major competitions\, Zoe combines many facets of her career with performing. \nZoe has played numerous concertos with Melbourne Orchestras and with pianist Amir Farid\, made an impressive debut at the Melbourne Recital Centre to great critical acclaim in 2009. Their partnership has resulted in recordings for ABC\, concerts throughout Australia and the release of five CDs on the MOVE label. Zoe and Amir will reunite in 2020 with performances in New York and throughout Australia. \nZoe has been praised for her “thrilling tenor sound” (Limelight Magazine)\, “sublime phrasing” and “many great technical demands carried off with ease.” She has released three other titles on the MOVE label\, including the complete suites for solo cello by J.S Bach. \nZoe is a founding member of Flinders Quartet and plays a 2020 Rainer Beilharz cello made in Castlemaine\, Victoria\, and a Michael Taylor bow made in 2012. Zoe has been following Rainer’s cello making for a number of years. After falling in love with the deep\, characterful sound and choosing to make this cello her own\, Rainer revealed that he had made it with her in mind. \n“Knighton has produced a reading of great artistic integrity.” – Gordon Kerry \n“She radiates confidence in her work and participates with personality and no little finesse … Well worth hearing for the pleasure given through this player’s familiar warmth and honesty of musical character.” – Clive O’Connell \n  \nROBBIE MELVILLE is a guitarist and composer. He began performing in his teens\, and in 2005 was offered the Principal Guitar Chair in the Australian Pops Orchestra\, appearing at Hamer Hall and the Sydney Opera House with artists such as James Morrison\, Marina Prior\, and Guy Sebastian. \nMelville’s compositions have garnered several awards. Most recently he became a recipient of the 2021 Johnny Dennis Music Award. In 2016 he was awarded both the Industry and Orkeztra prizes in the Composition Competition for world music ensemble Orkeztra Glasso Bashalde with the piece ‘Tango In Pusan’. He was awarded first place for ‘Junkyard’ in the Instrumental Category of the 2018 International Songwriting Competition\, a competition that amassed over 19\,000 entries. The same song was shortlisted for the 2021 Composition-To-Choreography Competition “MadeBy”\, an initiative of OneMusic Australia and the Australian arm of the Royal Academy of Dance. \nIn 2007 his quintet cleverhorse independently released the album ‘Goodnight\, Mr. Monster’ featuring an eclectic range of Robbie’s compositions. The Sydney Morning Herald wrote\, “They are onto something. They are undoubtedly creative”. Their second album ’50:fifty’ was released on the prestigious Jazzhead label in 2016. \nMelvilles’s trio Antelodic released its debut album ‘Quiet Sufficient’ in 2017. Billy Pinnell wrote\, “Antelodic…have created a sonically daring\, accessible masterpiece”. 2019 found the trio road testing new material during a series of shows in London in preparation for their next record. \nIn March 2020 this new material was released as the album\, ‘To Iceland! To Iceland!’ on ABC Jazz. Award winning Australian saxophonist Julien Wilson wrote\, “Melville’s compositions are beguiling\, but it’s the way they’re realised by the whole group that makes this recording so special. There’s plenty of intrigue\, but always room to breathe”. The album was supported by a national Australian tour. \nRobbie’s propensity for musical variety\, and sensitivity as an accompanist\, has seen him engage in a diverse number of collaborative enterprises. He has worked on recordings for artists such as Shane Howard\, John Murry and Liz Frencham\, toured internationally with Irish musicians Mundy and Roesy\, performed with harpist/singer Mary Doumany\, Krystle Warren\, Nat Bartsch\, Gallie\, Aine Tyrrell\, Carl Pannuzzo\, Stephen Magnusson\, Zoe Frater\, Kristina Olsen\, and Sarah Carroll. \nHe has composed and recorded music for The Australian Diamond Company\, the Chinese/American short film\, ‘Hidden Truths’\, and the British documentary ‘Genus’. His combined interest in improvisation and silent film led him to form the Easy Street Ensemble\, a stable of rotating musicians who improvise live soundtracks to silent films. \nHe currently works as the in-house guitarist and musical arranger for Mark Stanley’s Red Room Recording Studio\, teaches guitar\, and performs regularly with Antelodic\, his new sextet the smallCHESTRA\, and with his trio and solo projects. \nWhile subtly evading expectations\, Robbie Melville loads his music with a restrained melancholy conveying innocence rather than knowingness\, the upshot being an unusual emotional ambiguity blending resignation and contentment – John Shand (Sydney Morning Herald 2021) \nRobbie’s style of minimalistic jazz is unique and distinctive\, perfectly phrased and placed\, but remains unpredictable – Indigo Music  \n  \nTAMARA MURPHY is a bassist/composer/educator based in Melbourne\, Australia. She has been flat out for over 20 years\, leading her own bands and performing with countless others. \nShe has released 10 albums as leader (or co-leader) and appears on over 30 recordings by other artists. She’s toured all around the world\, performing in Japan\, China\, Europe\, the UK and New York as well as Australia. \nCurrently\, Tamara Murphy performs with Kate Miller-Heidke\, Ali McGregor\, Harry Angus\, Clio Renner\, Andrea Keller\, Nat Bartsch\, Paul Grabowsky and Stephen Magnusson and many more artists in addition to her own band\, Spirograph Studies. \nShe ran her quintet Murphy’s Law for 14 years\, releasing four albums and was a member of Keller-Murphy-Browne (with Andrea Keller and Allan Browne)\, releasing two albums. She also performs and composes for other projects. Her albums have been nominated for The Age Genre Music Awards\, AIR awards and The Bell Awards. \nMurphy was awarded the inaugural PBS Young Elder of Jazz Commission in 2011 and her compositions have appeared on albums by other artists\, including vocalist Elly Hoyt\, ATM15 Big Band\, pianist Tony Gould and saxophonist Rob Burke. In the last few years\, she has worked as a musical director and arranger for the Brunswick Music Festival and Monash University’s MLIVE Progress Festival. In 2019\, she was shortlisted for the National Live Music Awards (Best Jazz Act). \nIn 2019 her band\, Spirograph Studies\, toured around Australia and New Zealand to support the release of their debut album\, Kindness Not Courtesy (shortlisted for a Music Vic Award). Their second album Lowlights was released in October 2021. \nIn the lockdown of 2020\, Tamara Murphy started an interview series entitled ‘Flipped Interviews’. 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DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nRory Fink\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nPerspective\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]\nFink’s vast body of work explores historic events\, personal experiences and the human condition narrated to us by the media and other central bodies. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]13 – 24 September 2022\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 6pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm\nTuesday and Friday evenings: 6pm – 8pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/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]Perspective by Rory Fink opens at fortyfivedownstairs on Tuesday13 September 2022. \nFink has put together an exhibition designed for all budding art enthusiasts looking to make a start in the world of art collecting. The exhibition features an eclectic mix of art created by the artist over the past five years. The vast body of work explores historic events\, personal experiences and the human condition narrated to us by the media and other central bodies. \nThe main feature of this exhibition is Fink’s most recent body of work titled: Perspective. This mixed media series looks at the way in which society lives under the power and influence of the various media outlets\, whose published material has decidedly far-reaching effects on how we think\, look and feel. The text used in this series is derived from real news headlines from a variety of news outlets\, text that is written in such a way to invoke strong emotional responses in the reader. Fink has reimagined and reworked the text to be less specific to a particular topic\, but instead to subjects that affect society as a whole. \nThe backgrounds are a unique style of photography\, created through the camera lens. The text is layered onto each photograph using acrylic paint and stencils. The series comprises 10 100.0 x 120.0 cm di-bond mounted mixed media archival images\, each ready to hang and add a touch of artistic expression to any lounge or dining room. \nOther works in the exhibition showcase Fink’s attention to detail with his use of several mediums\, including photography\, paint\, resin and timber.[/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]Rory Fink Artist\nrory@roryfink.com\nEducation\n– 2000 – 2002 completed a Bachelor of Arts\, RMIT university\, Melbourne.\nAwards / Achievements\n– 2009 Guest Judge for competition aired on GO! TV\n– 2003 2nd Prize\, Canon Portraiture Competition\n– 1998 1st Prize\, Herald Sun Photographic Competition\n– 1997 1st Prize\, Maroondah City Council Photographic Competition\nAwards / Grants\n2001 RMIT Student Exhibtion\n2002 RMIT Student Exhibition\n2003 RMIT Student Exhibition\n2004 CCP Salon Finalist\n2006 Brunswick Street Gallery Art Prize Finalist\n2008 Brunswick Street Gallery Art Prize Finalist\n2012 Head on Portrait Prize Finalist\n2013 Footscray Art Prize Finalist\n2015 – 2016 Melbourne CIty Council Creative Spaces Artist in residence\nExhibitions\n– 2022 Solo exhibition fourtyfiveownstairs gallery\, Melbourne\n– 2015 Artist Space Sydney\n– 2014 Group Exhibition\, Gaffa Gallery\, Sydney\n– 2013 Solo Exhibition\, Edmund Pearce Gallery\, Melbourne\n– 2011 Maningham City Council Galley Solo Exhibtion\n– 2010 Phillip B Opening\, Doltone House on Jones bay wharf\, Sydney\n– 2008 Group Show\, Sun Studios\, Sydney. Australian Landscapes\nPublications\n– Your Health Matters\, featured article\n– Culture Magazine\, front cover and inside story\nCollections\n– Maroondah City Council Chamber\n– “Croydon Library”\nCommercial Clients / Commissions\nMyer\nACP\nTato & Memi\nCulture Magazine\nSeduce\nKatherine\nCastellano Management Group\nLydia Jewels\nJules Sebastian\nDivine Tanning[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Spoken Word Circle
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nfortyfivedownstairs presents\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nSpoken Word Circle\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]6 September 2022\n\nhours:\nTuesday from 6pm – 8pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nAn open mic night for anyone with pen or keyboard and a fire in their belly for words. All are welcome \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=”Description”][vc_column_text]fortyfivedownstairs Spoken Word Circle \nIn the first week of September\, fortyfivedownstairs continues the widely-enjoyed Spoken Word Circle happening for writers of every flavour to test or give birth to their freshest material and works in progress\, within a relaxed and inspiring gallery setting. \nThis is an un-ticketed evening open to anyone from the curious to the ambitious who have an interest in sharing or experiencing living\, breathing literature. The Spoken Word Circle encourages emerging and established writers of poetry\, creative writing\, lyricists\, playwrights\, novelists\, biographers\, diarists — all with a pen or keyboard and a fire in their belly for words are welcome. \nAfter the readings there will be an opportunity for easy dialogue and feedback over a wine or beer at special pricing. \nJoin us for a special one-off evening of spoken word\, art and ideas! \nDetails\nTuesday 6 September from 6pm – 7:30pm / FREE entry\n$5 wine / $6 beer / $1 tea & soft drink \n*Featured image by Lisa Sewards is inspired by the words of Alice Bishop\, her book A Constant Hum\, human stories surrounding the events Black Saturday.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Bios” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″][vc_column_text]Ms Beige Brown has been in hiding since the documentary about her poetic process Beige Brown: Wombless Without Words was released yet now seeks to thrust herself out into a world which is unrelentingly harsh to artists.\nBeige has her own You Tube Channel\, Beige Brown Poet where you can witness her poetic rebellion against the monoliths of contemporary culture including Writers Festivals and the outmoded bastions of academia and publishing that continue the implicit cultural project of making marginal anyone with mammaries (literal or conceptual) or whose excessive poetic words leak out beyond set borders.\nBeige’s work is far too radical for most of Australia to understand. This is her tragedy. \nJoel Deane is a poet\, novelist\, journalist and speechwriter. He has published six books\, been a finalist for numerous literary awards – including the Walkley Book Award\, the Melbourne Prize for Literature and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award – and won the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize. His third novel\, Judas Boys\, will be published in 2022. \nDr Julia Prendergast\nChair of the Executive Committee of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs\, and author of the highly lauded collection of micro\, flash and traditional length stories\, Bloodrust\, Julia manages the Prizes and Partnerships portfolio of AAWP\, in between her day job: Senior Lecturer in Writing and Literature at Swinburne University: https://shortaustralianstories.com.au/product/bloodrust-and-other-stories/[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Crocodiles
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-theatre-company”]\nfortyfivedownstairs Play Reading Series\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1658196891213{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-title”]\nCrocodiles by Vidya Rajan\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1658196907149{padding-bottom: 25px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-dates”]2pm\, Sunday 4 September 2022[/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_1661478583940{padding-top: 5px !important;}”]Sunday 4 September 2022\n\ntime: 2pm\nticket price: $15\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-b9f1043e-9838″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Sandhya does a job most Australians would rather not do\, taking care of people most of us would rather forget about. Helen’s family are no exception; and when Helen dreams\, she sees what most of us would prefer to pretend wasn’t there. When the inevitable moment of reckoning arrives\, who tells their stories? \nVidya Rajan (Looking for Alibrandi\, At Home Alone Together) brings sharp wit and deep sympathy to a timely portrait of an aged care sector in crisis\, and the human beings caught in the fallout. \nPresented by Elbow Room  \nDirector: Marcel Dorney \nGenerously supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation[/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-b9f1043e-9838″][vc_column_text]Elbow Room – www.elbowroomproductions.com \nVidya Rajan – www.vidyasrajan.com \n@elbowroomtheatre \n@vidyarrrr[/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-b9f1043e-9838″][vc_column_text visibility=”” font_weight=”” text_transform=””]\nTicket Prices:\nAll tickets: $15 \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][vc_empty_space]Buy Tickets [/vc_column][/vc_row]
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In the shadow of catastrophe life endures and [post] excavates the domestic\, the dreary\, the humorous and the heartbreaking as we search for meaning and connection. \nFast\, funny\, moving and occasionally disturbing [post] is a brand-new work from the creators of Just a Boy\, Standing in Front of a Girl\, Cuckoo and The Yellow Wave. \nPresented by 15 Minutes from Anywhere \nDirector: Beng Oh \nCast: Keith Brockett\, Bruce Langdon\, Kelly Nash\, Marissa O’Reilly\, Sonya Suares and Glenn van Oosterom \nGenerously supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation [/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-b9f193a4-b107″][vc_column_text]Keith Brockett – actor \nKeith is a Melbourne-based actor\, theatre-maker\, and co-founder of indie theatre company The KIN Collective. Trained at the National Theatre and the Royal Acadamy of Dramatic Arts\, his stage credits include the off-Broadway hit Puffs\, Or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic\, Will Eno’s one-man show Title and Deed\, Happy Ending for MTC\, and national tours of The Yellow Wave by Jane Miller and Porcelain by Chay Yew. A series regular in the TV cult hits The Librarians and Ronny Chieng: International Student\, his other recent screen credits include New Gold Mountain\, The Newsreader\, Metro Sexual\, Five Bedrooms\, Seven Types of Ambiguity\, and True Story with Hamish and Andy. \nKelly Nash – actor \nKelly trained as a drama teacher at Rusden in the 80’s and after teaching full time for five years\, left to pursue a career in acting – with varying results.  (Had to supplement income by doing massage therapy\, life drawing modelling and flower bunching\, theatre-in education and teaching). Kelly has appeared in local television shows in guest roles (Neighbours\, Blue Heelers\, Stingers) and in short films and independent theatre around Melbourne.  She has enjoyed working with Baggage Productions\, Hoy Polloy\, ITCH\, Raw Collective and Ellis Productions and more recently with 15 Minutes from Anywhere.  Kelly’s character\, Queenie Kent is also sometimes seen in venues around Melbourne and still maintains she was nowhere near The Swagman Theatre Restaurant when it burnt down in 1990. \nSonya Suares – actor \nSonya is a multidisciplinary performer\, dramaturg\, director\, producer and arts activist whose work has spanned film\, television and theatre since her screen debut at 16. She founded acclaimed Sondheim repertory company Watch This\, realising a body of work that includes Assassins\, Pacific Overtures\, Company\, Merrily We Roll Along\, A Little Night Music and Sunday in the Park with George and has accrued a total of 27 Green Room Award nominations/ 2 wins. She’s also been nominated for her work as an actor in MTC’s Melbourne Talam and Polyglot Theatre & Papermoon Puppet Theatre’s international hit\, Cerita Anak. She shares a nomination for Best Direction of a Musical with Dean Drieberg for Sunday in the Park with George (2019) and for the realisation of the digital documentary series\, The Art of Making Art (2020). Recently\, she co-directed Into the Woods with Melanie Hillman for Watch This (6 GRA nominations including Production of the Year); the 2022 Cybec Electric playreadings with Isabella Vadiveloo for MTC; and wrote/ produced a pilot of the fantasy adventure screen project\,The Quest– a collaboration with her son\, Daniel. She is currently working with composer/ lyricist Vidya Makan and Hayes Theatre Co on The Lucky Country and with Essential Theatre to realise the Australian premiere of Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s Emilia. \nGlenn van Oosterom – actor \nA proud member of the 15 Minutes from Anywhere company\, Glenn’s recent credits include Patalog Theatre’s Tusk Tusk as well as the feature Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears. A National Theatre Graduate\, Glenn has been fortunate enough to perform nationally through a variety of projects\, including: HIT Production’s The Sum of Us\, Essential Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream; the titular role in Romeo & Juliet for the Australian Shakespeare Company; premiere Franz Xaver Kroetz’s Tom Fool with Beng Oh\, explore Marcel & Albertine for Stork Theatre\, launch Jane Miller’s True Love Travels on a Gravel Road and play a critically-acclaimed young Hitler in Tabori’s Mein Kampf. As well as promoting mental health via HealthPlay’s Out of the Blue. Additional screen credits include Limelight International’s The Stolen\, Terry Pratchett & Snowgum Films’ Troll Bridge\, Bed of Roses\, Rush and the web-series Clique. Voice work includes regular work on commercial radio\, TVCs\, documentaries\, eLearning modules\, animation\, television\, short films and the web-series Optimism Bias. \n15 Minutes from Anywhere \nFormed in 2013\, 15 Minutes from Anywhere is the artistic collaboration between director Beng Oh and writer Jane Miller. Credits include True Love Travels on a Gravel Road (fortyfivedownstairs)\, Cuckoo (fortyfivedownstairs/The Unknown Union)\, Motherf#cker (La Mama)\, Mein Kampf (fortyfivedownstairs)\, P.O.V. Dave (La Mama)\, Sh#t Happens (La Mama) \, Cock (fortyfivedownstairs)\, The Yellow Wave (The Butterfly Club/La Mama) and Just a Boy\, Standing in Front of a Girl (La Mama). \nJane Miller – writer \nA graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts\, Jane’s work has been produced within Australia and internationally. Plays include Happily Ever After\, True Love Travels on Gravel Road\, Motherfucker\, The Yellow Wave\, Cuckoo and Just a Boy\, Standing in Front of a Girl. Jane is a recipient of an RE Ross Playwrights Script Development Award for True Love Travels on a Gravel Road and a Green Room Award nominee for Cuckoo. As a dramaturg\, Jane’s credits include Shit Happens by Sandy MacGregor and P.O.V Dave by Noel Maloney. Jane is co-artistic director of independent theatre company\, 15 Minutes from Anywhere \nBeng Oh – director \nBeng Oh is a Melbourne based Asian-Australian director who has staged a wide range of productions over the years for various companies including fortyfivedownstairs\, Red Stitch\, La Mama\, Playwriting Australia\, Federation University and The Street Theatre among others. Selected productions include Soul Of Possum by Brodie Murray (2021 Yirramboi Festival)\, Just a Boy\, Standing in Front of a Girl\, The Yellow Wave and Cuckoo by Jane Miller\, The Curtain and Wild Cherries by Daniel Keene\, Mein Kampf by George Tabori and Coloured Aliens by Chi Vu. He is passionate about diversity\, new work and queer theatre and is co-artistic director of 15 Minutes From Anywhere. He trained at the Victorian College of the Arts and is a member of the Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab in New York. He is on the on the committee of management for La Mama Theatre and also an associate of Contemporary Asian Australian Performance.[/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-b9f193a4-b107″][vc_column_text]\nTicket Prices:\n\nAll tickets: $15 \nNO BOOKING FEE SURCHARGE[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][vc_empty_space]Buy Tickets [/vc_column][/vc_row]
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DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nMing Chung\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nDrift\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]30 August – 10 September 2022\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 6pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm\nTuesday and Friday evenings: 6pm – 8pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]\nBy looking at these slow moving images\, my mind goes to a place where I find calmness and peace… \n[/vc_column_text][/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]“Drift” explores the state of mind where our consciousness drifted away to a difference place\, wondering\, imaging\, and perhaps just thinking of nothing.  Mind drifting breaks you away from the present moment and free your mind to a different world. \nThese images are generative by different sets of rules and changing and moving freely  under the predefined logic.  They are deterministic (as they followed the rules) and yet unpredictable (as each frame of animation is not predefined but changes at random). \nBy looking at these slow moving images\, my mind goes to a place where I find calmness and peace.  It is an experience that I like to share and hopefully they take you to a place that you feel free.[/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]Ming Chun Chung is a photographer and generative artist who was born in Taiwan\, educated in New Zealand\, and traveled extensively around Japan for many years. \nAs a photographer\, he takes photos on the streets\, by the lakes\, and in the mountains and has exhibited his time-lapse “Tokyo in times — 100 Time-lapses\, 100 moments of Tokyo” in the past. \nAs a programmer\, he uses a mix of tools to create digital arts.  The evolving technology not only provides new ways of creating arts and immersive experiences but also enables people like Ming to generate arts by codes.  “Drift” is his first generative art series.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Crawling Through the Dust of Life
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nRichard Besley\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nCrawling Through the Dust of Life\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]30 August  – 10 September 2022\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 6pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm\nTuesday and Friday evenings: 6pm – 8pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]\nCrawling Through the Dust of Life is an exhibition of new work comprised of mixed media works on paper and a group of large-scale works on canvas. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Crawling Through the Dust of Life # 9 \nCrawling Through the Dust of Life # 4 \nCrawling Through the Dust of Life # 7 \nCrawling Through the Dust of Life # 8 \nCrawling Through the Dust of Life # 10 \nCrawling Through the Dust of Life # 3 \n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef” title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Richard Besley is a Melbourne based painter who has exhibited his contemplative colourist improvisations over the past 25 years. His delicate and ethereal compositions reveal a preoccupation with surfaces\, layers and light. \nCrawling Through the Dust of Life is an exhibition of new work comprised of mixed media works on paper and a group of large-scale works on canvas.  This series has developed from an ongoing body of work in which abstract compositions are derived from natural forms and patterns. Rich surfaces are built through layers of texture and glaze. The final image emerges from a reductive process in which layers are stripped back with a palette knife. With densely textured surfaces creating movement and space\, the work is suspended somewhere between the metaphysical and material. While referring to the natural world the images ultimately evoke otherworldliness and suggest an internal process of revelation. \nThe exhibition features a large diptych\, the same dimensions (200.0 x 600.0 cm) as Claude Monet’s Water Lily Pond on permanent display at the beautiful Chichu Art Museum on Naoshima Island\, Japan. It was a photo of this gallery\, with visitors dwarfed by the Monet diptych\, which provided the idea to embark on a work of this scale. The work took two years to complete\, the first year to build up layers of oil colour and second for the painstaking process of scratching back the hardened oil paint. \nThe works on paper have developed over a 10 year period. Earlier versions were exhibited in 2012\, at which time they were principally watercolour\, but have since been entirely reworked by applying multiple layers of raw pigment and acrylic. The fresh layers have been stripped back revealing a ‘ghost’ of the underpainting through the distressed upper surface.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef”][vc_column_text]Richard Besley \nBorn Melbourne 1971\nCurrently lives and works in Melbourne \nSolo Exhibitions\n2015 Fortyfivedownstairs\, Melbourne\n2012 Chapman & Bailey\, Melbourne\n2010 Chapman & Bailey\, Melbourne\n2006 Chapman & Bailey\, Melbourne\n2006 Gallerie Arcturus\, Paris\n2004 Chapman & Bailey\, Melbourne\n2002 Chapman & Bailey\, Melbourne\n2001 The Motor Works\, Melbourne\n2000 The Motor Works\, Melbourne\n1997 The Motor Works Melbourne[/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:20220821
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SUMMARY:1863: The Birth of Impressionism
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-theatre-company”]\nSongmakers Australia\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1657069830671{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-title”]\n1863: The Birth of Impressionism\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1657071487103{padding-bottom: 25px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-dates”]5pm\, Sunday 21 August 2022[/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_1657765724717{padding-top: 5px !important;}”]Sunday 21 August 2022\n\ntime: 5pm\nticket price: $32 – $38\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-b9f15ce4-cf52″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]The year is 1863 and the Emperor Napoleon III has decreed that all paintings rejected by the Salon’s judges can be exhibited in a nearby room “wishing to let the public judge the legitimacy of the artists’ complaints”. Thus was born the first Salon des Refusés and the seed of Impressionism was planted. Using 5 famous paintings as focal points\, this program explores French poetry and music inspired by them through songs by Debussy\, Fauré\, Duparc and duets by Chausson. Looking to future generations of painters and composers\, we pay tribute to Poulenc with a performance of his monumental song cycle Le Travail du peintre.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artists” tab_id=”1452941644640-19a0de81-e87a0201-342dcb0a-2ec9a177-581a2513-a5c51f1f-8993a3c4-5ca5cb85-3d54189f-4d6f8ba6-b9f15ce4-cf52″][vc_column_text]\nSongmakers Australia\nMerlyn Quaife AM\, soprano\nNicholas Dinopoulos\, bass-baritone\nAndrea Katz\, piano\n \nUnique in the musical landscape of Australia\, Songmakers Australia brings together some of the country’s leading singers and instrumentalists in a diverse repertoire comprising some of the pinnacles of all chamber music. \nUnder the artistic patronage of Graham Johnson\, founding director of the acclaimed London-based Songmakers Almanac\, pianist Andrea Katz teams with soprano Merlyn Quaife\, mezzo-soprano Christina Wilson\, tenor Brenton Spiteri and bass-baritone Nicholas Dinopoulos in inspired programs that feature a dynamic interplay of song and chamber music.Celebrating their 10th anniversary\, the ensemble continues their pursuit for musical excellence and the promotion of international and Australian vocal chamber music. They presents a yearly subscription series at the Melbourne Recital Centre\, where they have been Local Heroes since 2011\, as well as numerous invitations to perform at leading festivals and recital series Australia-wide (Melbourne Festival\, Art Gallery of NSW\, Peninsula Summer Music Festival\, Art Song Canberra\, MDCH and the Art Gallery of Ballarat). They are regularly heard in national live-to-air broadcasts.[/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-b9f15ce4-cf52″][vc_column_text]\nTicket Prices:\nFull: $38\nConcession: $32\nGroup 8+: $32 \nConcessions:\nPensioners/Full-time students/MEAA members \nNO BOOKING FEE SURCHARGE[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][vc_empty_space]Buy Tickets [/vc_column][/vc_row]
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220816
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SUMMARY:It's All in the Details
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nKate Durham\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nIt’s All in the Details\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]16 August – 27 August 2022\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 6pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm\nTuesday and Friday evenings: 6pm – 8pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n..An exhibition of wearable art by designer Kate Durham… \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=”Description”][vc_column_text]It’s All in the Details is the title of this show. \nI made most of these pieces in lockdown. I think with being somewhat cloistered and remaining housebound and often losing any sense of time’s progress or the world beyond my designated perimeter\, my work became more complex. The vision was more myopic\, focused more intense\, l hope not to the point of neurosis\, but as time seemed limitless there was a slowness to the pace of my work. A sense that I could quietly explore\, avoid the virus and with no distractions\, the work often became an elaboration on an elaboration. Jewellery inside jewellery. \nMy exhibition held here in the small gallery at fortyfivedownstairs in 2016 called The Decorated Self contained similar themes\, my retort to minimalism and it’s structures. I wanted to pay my respects to Decoration. Decoration and detail are cousins and they both allow the eye to travel which is what the eye seeks. \nKate Durham[/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]Kate Durham is a Melbourne artist\, practicing in jewellery\, painting\, decorative art\, interiors\, sculpture and drawing. She was trained in fine art in Melbourne. \nHer work has been shown in Japan\, England\, the USA and around Australia. Kate has sold her designs in several boutiques and gallery design stores. \nKate is represented in major collections\, including the National Gallery of Victoria\, The National Gallery\, Canberra\, Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Sydney Powerhouse Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences\, the Victoria & Albert Museum\, London and the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery\, Launceston and Shepparton Regional Art Gallery\, Victoria \nIn 2001\, Kate established Spare Rooms for Refugees\, a project to provide community accommodation for asylum seekers. In June 2002\, she travelled to Nauru with a BBC journalist and thus provided the first images of Australia’s Pacific Solution. \nIn the 1980’s Kate made popular her extravagant\, bejewelled jewellery\, head-pieces\, drawings\, paintings\, sculptures\, busts\, mirrors\, frames and furniture. Kate’s choice of materials from scraps\, remnants\, and rubbish informed her playful and unique anti-fashion\, fashion style. \nKate was a founding member of the Fashion Design Council (FDC) of Australia. A non-profit collective supporting emerging and alternative fashion\, emanating from the street and the nightclub scene of the early 1980’s. \nwww.katedurham.com[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Programming” tab_id=”1657000836653-a6600828-eeeb”][vc_column_text]Artist talk & drinks hosted by Janice Breen Burns with Kate Durham\, Susan Cohn & Deborah Thomas. \nSaturday 20th August from 2pm.\nFree event. Bookings essential.\nRSVP to communications@fortyfivedownstairs.com[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220816
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SUMMARY:Drifted
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nAlison Russell\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nDrifted\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]16 August – 27 August 2022\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 12pm to 6pm\nSaturday 12pm to 4pm\nTuesday & Friday evenings 6pm – 8pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]\nEmerging subconsciously without directed thought or language\, Alison Russell’s graphite\, ink and pastel drawings go through an intuitive journey of addition\, subtraction and rotation. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Drifted One\, 2021\, ink\, pastel and graphite on paper\, 65.0 x 230.0 cm \nDrifted Nine\, 2021\, pastel and graphite on paper\, 130.0 x 90.0 cm \nDrifted Six\, 2021\, pastel and graphite on paper\, 90.0 x 65.0 cm  \nDrifted Four\, 2020\, ink\, pastel and graphite on paper\, 115.0 x 90.0 cm \nDrifted One\, 2020\, graphite and coloured pencil on paper\, 55.0 x 115.0 cm \nAlison Russell\, Drifted (Exhibition Installation)\, 2022.  \nAlison Russell\, Drifted (Exhibition Installation)\, 2022.  \n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef” title=”Artist Statement”][vc_column_text]Dreams drifted me off\nReality left behind\nEndless freedom found\n(Demetrius Trifiatis) \nMy drawings are created without directed thought or language. They roam\, wander\, twist\nand turn. Starting with random mark marking\, they take on a momentum of their own until\nsemblances of images emerge. I use techniques as starting points to stimulate imagery\nfrom the subconscious mind. Continuous line drawing and doodling can encourage\nmeandering thoughts from which to build. Combining ink\, water and salt enables\ntransformations of found shapes and structures. Erasing graphite\, ink and pastel marks\nwith rubbers or water (if using yupo paper) leaves ghost prints to further develop. I see\nlines and I follow them; marks take on forms and I explore them as they lead me on an\nintuitive\, meditative journey. With the accompaniment of music\, a euphoric trance-like state\ncan be reached. \nRotation of the paper while working is an integral part of the process\, forcing the eye to\nsee in other ways. Numerous configurations in which to view diptychs and triptychs are\npossible. Which way is up? The excitement of resolving struggles to enable the work to\nreveal itself is addictive. \nThe consistent subject matter in my imaginary landscapes is triggered by an enduring\nfascination with textures\, patterns and life forms in the natural world. Although I don’t draw\ndirectly from nature or use references to create the works\, these worlds run parallel with\nmy art. Ambiguous macro scenes suggest forests\, subterranean and underwater worlds.\nSoft\, curved biomorphic forms merge internal and external worlds. \nDrawing has become my passion. As I come from a printmaking background where\nplanned and controlled processes were required\, it has been liberating to relinquish rigid\nmethods and embrace spontaneous exploration. \nThe works in this exhibition were made during the pandemic. As I worked on my art\, my art\nworked on me as a therapy\, providing comfort in times of stress and anxiety. I invite the\nviewer to engage with these works – to drift\, dream\, meditate and escape.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef”][vc_column_text]Artist’s Bio // Alison Russell \nEducation\n1989\nBachelor of Fine Art majoring in Printmaking\nMonash University\, Caulfield \nSolo Exhibitions\n2019\nAcufitz\, Melbourne\n2018\nCambridge Studio Gallery\, Melbourne\nGroup Exhibitions\n2019\nEmerge\nBrunswick Street Gallery\, Melbourne\n2018\nFinalist in Life Abstracted\nCambridge Studio Gallery\, Melbourne\n2008\nAlafia Gallery\, Melbourne\nGasworks Arts Park\, Melbourne\n2007\nGasworks Arts Park\, Melbourne\n2006\nGasworks Arts Park\, Melbourne\n1990\nLinden Gallery\, Melbourne\n1989\nCaulfield Arts Complex\, Melbourne[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:My Neighbours’ Gardens
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nAloma Treister\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nMy Neighbours’ Gardens\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]16 August – 27 August 2022\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 6pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm\nTuesday and Friday evenings: 6pm – 8pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]\nThe flowers and plants that I chose to paint spoke to me on a personal level\, symbolizing the months of lockdown\, and a celebration of the beauty that only nature can produce. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Winter Leaves I\, 2020\, oil on canvas\, 61.0 x 45.0 cm \nWinter Leaves II\, 2020\, oil on canvas\, 60.0 x 90.0 cm \nRed Canna\, 2021\, oil on\ncanvas\, 60.0 x 6.0 cm \nCrimson\, 2021\, oil on canvas\, 100.0 x 100.0 cm \nAloma Treister\, My Neighbours' Gardens (Exhibition Installation)\, 2022.  \nAloma Treister\, My Neighbours' Gardens (Exhibition Installation)\, 2022.  \n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef” title=”Description”][vc_column_text]The past two years saw me\, like most Melbournians\, confined to my home. Several kilometres of concrete sidewalks were traversed on my daily walks.  It was here\, passing by the neighbourhood gardens that I found solace in the colours and shapes of flowers that I observed.  The flowers and plants that I chose to paint spoke to me on a personal level\, symbolizing the months of lockdown\, and a celebration of the beauty that only nature can produce.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef”][vc_column_text]Aloma Treister was born in Baghdad\, Iraq in 1944. \nSubsequently she lived in Iran\, Israel and London. She studied Graphic Design at London’s Sir John School of Art and worked at the Israeli Television studio in Israel. In 1973 she moved to\nMelbourne\, Australia. In 1981 she completed a B.A. in Fine art\, painting at RMIT\, and a Masters of Fine Art at Monash University in 2000. \nAloma Treister is an award winning artist. Having exhibited widely in Australia and abroad\, her works are also held in esteemed collections in Australia\, America\, UK and Israel.[/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:To The Promised Land
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nMargaret Gold\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nTo The Promised Land\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]2 August – 13 August 2022\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 6pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm\nTuesday and Friday evenings: 6pm – 8pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]\nThey risk everything for a chance of freedom.  How many boats are never seen.  How many people are never fished from the sea. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Untitled 4\, 2021\, pen\, pencil\, synthetic polymer paint on Arches\, 70.0 x 56.0 cm \nUntitled 6\, 2021\, pen\, pencil\, synthetic polymer paint on Arches\, 70.0 x 56.0 cm \nUntitled  2\, 2021\, pen\, pencil\, synthetic polymer paint on Arches\, 70.0 x 56.0 cm \nUntitled   5\, 2021\, pen\, pencil\, synthetic polymer paint on Arches\, 70.0 x 56.0 cm \nUntitled  3\, 2021\, pen\, pencil\, synthetic polymer paint on Arches\, 70.0 x 56.0 cm \n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef” title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Artist Statement \nTO THE PROMISED LAND \nI have heard it said that we are the uninvited. We are the unwelcome. We should take our misfortune elsewhere. \n– Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini \nThey desperately fled the danger and horror of their homes\, now deserted. They left with longing and loss for those who had to stay behind\, for the promised land\, not their own\, far away and unwelcoming. The journey dangerous and frightening\, in the rubber boats into which they were crammed\, men\, women and their children\, whilst the waves mounted and their flimsy transport to freedom and safety\, disintegrated beneath them. One can die in many ways. They are asylum seekers. \nIn my work I have tried to represent the danger\, despair and lingering hope in the faces\, caricatures of humanity. \nI have chosen a combination of yacht sails with the rubber dinghies. At once symbols of lingering hope and creeping fear and despair. The hope remains in the sails as a propulsive force that with the wind\, which exits\, but cannot be seen. \nThey risk everything for a chance of freedom.  How many boats are never seen.  How many people are never fished from the sea. \nIn contrast to the imagery of asylum seekers we see in journalistic imagery presented through newspapers\, journals and the news\, this body of work presents my personal\, emotional expression. \nMargaret Gold \nSupport can be sort through:\nAsylum Seeker Resource Centre\nAustralian Red Cross\nFoundation House and the Brigidine Asylum Seeker Project \n*The artist has pledged a percentage of sales from this exhibition to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre \n\nFounded in 2001\, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) is Australia’s largest human rights organisation providing support to people seeking asylum.\nThe ASRC is an independent not-for-profit organisation whose programs support and empower people seeking asylum to maximise their own physical\, mental and social wellbeing.\nThey champion the rights of people seeking asylum and mobilise a community of compassion to create lasting social and policy change.\nThe ASRC movement is proudly supported by a community of committed volunteers and supporters and assists around 7\,000 people seeking asylum each year.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef”][vc_column_text]\nMARGARET GOLD C.V.\nBorn in Melbourne\, Australia\n1979 – 81 Studied at Richmond College in London\n1982 – 84 Fine Arts degree at the Victorian College of the Arts\, majoring in Sculpture and Painting \nSelected Solo Exhibitions\n2022 fortyfivedownstairs\, Melbourne\n2018 fortyfivedownstairs\, Melbourne\n2013 fortyfivedownstairs\, Melbourne\n2010 fortyfivedownstairs\, Melbourne\nSPAN Galleries\, Melbourne\nSPAN Galleries\, Melbourne\nAustralian Galleries\, Collingwood\nJudith Pugh Gallery\, Fitzroy\n1990 Arden Street Gallery\, North Melbourne \nSelected Group Exhibitions\n2019     Group Show – 45 Downstairs\, Melbourne 20 x 20 cm\n2018     Group Show – 45 Downstairs\, Melbourne 20 x 20 cm\n2017     45 at 45 – Exhibition 45 Downstairs Gallery\, Melbourne\n2014     WHO’s LOOKING AT YOU – Portrait Prize\, Cambridge Studio Gallery\n2011     Postcard Show – Linden Galleries\, St. Kilda\n2010     Exhibition – Chapman and Bailey Gallery – Belle Arti Prize\n2007     Group Show\, SPAN Galleries\nMelbourne Art Fair – Exhibition Building\n1998     Group Show – 45 Downstairs (anti-Grand Prix)\nFitzroy Gallery\, Fitzroy\nDrawing Exhibition – Raw Studios\n1988     Tenth Mildura Sculpture Triennial\n‘Sculpture ‘85’\, World Trade Centre\, Melbourne\n‘Graven Images’\, Art Gallery of Western Australia in association with Perth International Festival of the Arts\, Perth W.A.\nGroup Show\, Victorian College of the Arts\n1981     Orleans House\, London U.K. \nCollected in London\, Germany\, U.S.A.  and Australia \nPublications:  Tenth Mildura Sculpture Triennial ‘Graven Images’ Perth International Festival of Arts\, W.A.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Vele
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nMICHELANGELO RUSSO & JENNIFER JABU\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nVele\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]2 August – 13 August 2022\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 6pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm\nTuesday and Friday evenings: 6pm – 8pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]\nThe elements of composition are both rigid and fluid\, angular and curvy\, resulting in endless possibilities. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]V.ROSACEL SU GRIGIOCEL |Q20| 2022 encaustic on cardboard and calico on wood panel cm 20X20 \nV.OCRA SU VIOLA |Q30| 2022 encaustic on cardboard and calico on wood panel cm 30X30 \nV.GRIGIO/BLU |M|\, 2022\, encaustic on cardboard\, hessian and rope on wood panel cm 61X46 \nV.GIALLO SU GRIGIOC |Q20| 2022 encaustic on cardboard and calico on wood panel cm 20X20 \nV.ARANCIO SU VERDINO |Q20| 2022 encaustic on cardboard and calico on wood panel cm 20X20 \n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef” title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Vele (pl) in Italian means sails. \nThe point of departure for Vele stemmed from Michelangelo’s WAX series (2002-2006) where large pieces of materials (hessian\, cotton and denim) were roughly stitched together before painted with encaustic.  Bold protruding stitches form the composition of mainly large monochrome works. \nIn Vele the artists continue their journey through exploring various methods of cutting and assembling cardboard. The elements of composition are both rigid and fluid\, angular and curvy\, resulting in endless possibilities. The concept of radical geometry revisited and reconceptualised. \nMichelangelo & Jenn have introduced fabric and stitching into Vele. The hard lines that defined earlier collaborations begin to soften with curves of the fabric\, where rigid geometry dissolves into perforated skins and flowing sails transporting the viewer to another dimension. Broken and torn fabrics are stitched and the fluidity of the newly acquired shapes would merge with the landscape\, the built environment and ultimately with our souls to take us on a Vele journey.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef”][vc_column_text]Michelangelo Russo born 1962\, Campobasso\, Italy. Michelangelo started painting at the age of 12\, he had his first solo exhibition in 1977. After studying architecture and graphic design in Pescara and Rome he relocated to Berlin in early 1990 where he lived for 4 years before moving to Melbourne Australia in 1994. During his career Michelangelo had several solo and group shows in Italy\, Germany\, Cuba and Australia. Michelangelo has had a lifelong interest not only in painting but also music.  Since 1979 he has played in several bands in Italy\, Germany and Australia. He has toured Europe playing concerts and experimental music festivals\, and has appeared on several seminal recordings. Since 1994 he collaborated widely with musician/songwriter/producer Hugo Race\, and composers/musicians Wendy Morrison and Andrew Ogburn amongst others\, appearing in many projects\, recordings and performances. \nJennifer Jabu born in 1973 in Sibu\, Sarawak on the remote island of Borneo. Moving abroad in 1988 to Melbourne\, attended high school and completed tertiary education. She graduated in B. Architecture (Hons) \, M. International Urban and Environmental Management and a doctoral candidate in planning at RMIT University\, Melbourne. In her training\, she has always regarded painting\, sculpture and architecture as complimentary disciplines that influence and interact with each other. She has travelled through Asia\, Australia\, New Zealand\, Europe\, United States and the Middle East. Her frequent trips to Borneo is spent with family and visiting her ancestral village homes and village communities. She resides in Melbourne\, Victoria. \nThe collaboration between Michelangelo Russo and Jennifer Jabu started in early 2019 during the preparation of “Cartoni containers contained” exhibition at fortyfivedownstairs Gallery Melbourne\, August 2019.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Mungo
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nSusan Wald\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nMungo\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]19 July – 30 July 2022\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 12am to 6pm\,\nSaturday 12pm to 4pm\nEvenings: Tuesday & Friday 6pm – 8pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Susan Wald\, Mungo VI\, 2018\, black ink on Hahnmuhle paper\, 58.0 x 67.5 cm \nSusan Wald\, Mungo Dusk II\, 2022\, oil on linen\, 137.0 x 144.0 cm \nSusan Wald\, Mungo 1\, 2018\, black ink on Hahnmuhle paper\, 58.0 x 67.5 cm \nSusan Wald\, Dusk at Red Top II\, 2019\, oil on linen\, 144.0 x 137.0 cm \nSusan Wald\, Mungo Light\, 2021\, oil on linen\, 137.0 x 144.0 cm \n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef” title=”Description”][vc_column_text]fortyfivedownstairs and Queenscliff Gallery present Mungo\, a solo painting exhibition by artist Susan Wald\, as part of the 2022 gallery program. \n‘These are pictures for our time. Pictures that are refined by time\, they are thoughtful\, and speak of death and birth in one. They speak of the end point of the Australian landscape\, the dry\, desolate\, final images of one of the world’s driest continents.\nMungo is known worldwide as a place of discovery; of Mungo man\, and Mungo woman\, a marker that starts a chronology for our First Peoples.’\n— Dr Thomas Middlemost\, excerpt from opening speech Mildura Arts Centre\, 2020[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef”][vc_column_text]Susan Wald is a Melbourne-based artist who works primarily in monotypes and oil paintings. Wald has exhibited extensively in both solo and group exhibitions since her graduation from Victoria College with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (First Class Honours)\, and has also earned numerous awards\, most recently the 2019 Print Commission from the Print Council of Australia . Her figurative works inhabit their own internal mood\, space\, and light\, and her oil paintings have been described as a ” meditative abstraction using a limited range of colours” (The Making\, Dr. M E McGuire). \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Programming” tab_id=”1657245835021-8b5d45dd-ef5e”][vc_column_text]Artist Talk with Susan Wald \nwhen: Saturday 23rd July 2022 at 1pm \nwhere: fortyfivedownstairs gallery \nRSVPs are essential\, please contact communications@fortyfivedownstairs to register.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][vc_single_image image=”575680″ onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://qgallery.com.au/”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:The Book of Fabulas & Scented Echoes
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nDrasko Boljevic & Eleonor Palacio\nDrasko Boljevic & Eleonor Palacio[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nThe Book of Fabulas and Scented Echoes\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]19 July – 30 July 2022\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 6pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm\nTuesday and Friday evenings: 6pm – 8pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]\nWith a captive eye only the sound of art can perceive\, a fresh scent is awakened\, an endless story is revealed \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]The Nine Day Queen\, 2020\, photograph on 310 gm archival rag paper\, 90.0 x 60.0 cm  \nMarquesa de la Solana\, 2020\, photograph on 310 gm archival rag paper\, 90.0 x 60.0 cm  \nPierrot\, 2020\, photograph on 310 gm archival rag paper\, 90.0 x 60.0 cm \n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef” title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Surrounded by the moving waves of a not-so-distant past\, their brushed drapery is rearranged in the dusty soil of this South. With a captive eye only the sound of art can perceive\, a fresh scent is awakened\, an endless story is revealed. \nThe idea for The Book of Fabulas and Scented Echoes was born in 2020\, during lock down. Being at home\, inspired Drasko to open forgotten art books and play with the concept of having a museum in your own backyard. Drasko has experimented with 3-D art for over a decade\, and he developed the concept of 3-D cut outs\, or ‘analogue augmented reality’\, by which he holds a cut out of characters from\, mostly\, European famous paintings and juxtapose them with a background of daily life in Australia\, in photographic work. This contrast makes reference to colonial narratives and puts forward the need to bring stories of yesteryear to life with a new lens; in the land that is our home. \nIn addition to the images\, Drasko has collaborated with partner in life\, the literary translator (English into Spanish) and emerging artist Eleonor Palacio\, who added another layer to the atmosphere of the works by writing accompanying poetic descriptions inspired by the visuals\, to create a single voice. As Dr Bernhard Sachs has described it\, the series presented in this show ‘draws from a persistent and lively thematic threaded throughout [Drasko’s] practice\, a rich Balkan folkloric imaging tradition\, its contemporary analogue in popular culture and its humorous\, affectionate and ironic perspective on so-called high art. The meeting of this with the intense literary tradition of its South American corollary in Melbourne proposes a sophisticated larrikin poetic’.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artists’ Bio” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef”][vc_column_text]Drasko Boljevic has an extensive career as an artist working in a variety of mediums. A Victorian College of the Arts graduate (Bachelor or Fine Art\, 1998 & Master of Contemporary Art-Painting\, 2012)\, he started his studies training as a sculptor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (former Yugoslavia). His art practice\, which includes\, among other forms\, sculpture\, painting\, installation\, stencil art and photography\, strikes an unusual balance between classically trained skill and contemporary innovation. A part of the Melbourne art scene for almost three decades\, Drasko has a long exhibiting history and his work has attracted recognition both locally and internationally\, most recently being shown at the Urban Art Biennale in Volglingen Hutte\, Germany. His stencil art has featured in half a dozen publications in Australia\, UK and France. \nEleonor Palacio (aka Ele Cronopia) is a literary translator (English-Spanish) and linguist who loves diving into art and crafting words. \nThe pair have been partners in life for the last 20 years and often muse for each other’s creative endeavours. This recent collaboration has seen Eleonor tracing a poetic narrative inspired by Drasko’s artwork to create a single voice.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Imperishables: Sculptures and Paintings
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nFILIP TOTH\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nImperishables: Sculptures and Paintings\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]5 July – 16 July 2022\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 6pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm\nTuesday and Friday evenings: 6pm – 8pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]\nFilip’s sculptures are born out of a deeply personal iconology which resist interpretation in terms of simplistic symbolic equations. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Hector’s Mother\, 2019\, stainless steel & granite\, 95.0 x 15.0 x 15.0 cm \nProphet\, 2019\, stainless steel & granite\, 108.0 x 15.0 x 15.0 cm \nKhufu’s Boat\, 2020\, black steel & wood\, 31.0 x 15.0 x 101.0 cm \nNefertiti\, 2021\, stainless steel & bluestone\, 149.0 x 20.0 x 24.0 cm \n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef” title=”Description”][vc_column_text]In Filip Toth’s recent line of work\, Imperishables: Sculpture and Paintings\, he is rediscovering the most intensive method of experimenting with volume as the material grips and segments in a three-dimensional body in a clearly defined mass. However\, in the course of the history of culture\, this sensory approach has more often been replaced by an intellectual understanding of the form of well-known objects. Thought\, content\, and illustration suppressed form; the description replaced the understanding. \nFilip’s sculptures are born out of a deeply personal iconology which resist interpretation in terms of simplistic symbolic equations. The major aim in creating his works is “to give to materials\, such as metal and stone\, a new identity – encoding messages of human emotion\, solitude\, and the inevitability of death within forms – all things that future generations will have to face as long as the planet Earth exists”. \nThe artist combines metal and stone forms\, suggesting the frailty of human existence\, or powerful monolithic shapes\, tarnished by the patina of time\, in an effort to indicate “visibly or invisibly” fragments of human existence. \nThis latest collection of sculptures visually examines the deep convictions of human experience. These emotions are often associated with struggle that we are all so familiar with. They are celebrated through simple abstract shapes and forms. The human figure is distorted to an elegant simple form creating tension and silent dialogue between the viewer and sculpture. The narrative of the characters contrasts with its hi-tech surface finish and colour further evoking their symbolism. They are all individual pieces and yet they share certain emotive and spiritual qualities that unite them all together. \nAbove all\, Filip’s sculptures\, project a sense of timelessness\, a concept of fragments from the past located now between the past and the future – with all the sense of mystery\, which this concept holds.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Kup Murri
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-theatre-company”]\nfortyfivedownstairs play reading\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1654657692977{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-title”]\nKup Murri by Maryanne Sam\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1654657718041{padding-bottom: 25px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-dates”]Sunday 26 June 2022[/vc_column_text]book online [/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_1654738908364{padding-top: 5px !important;}”]Sunday 26 June 2022\n\ntime: 2pm\nticket price: $15\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-b9f1fbec-408c” title=”Description”][vc_column_text]80s Koorie activist Mitzy is disappointed with her daughter Shelley’s level of activism. Torres Strait Islander Jardine is in love with Shelley and wants to whisk her away to the Straits. Macker is Mitzy’s mate and old flame while Karen is his new one.  And Syd\, Rover\, Gazeer and Rufus remind us of past battles fought together in this country. But is a shared history enough to put the fire out on the battles cooking up at this Kup Murri? \nThis play reading is supported by the Besen Family Foundation.[/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-b9f1fbec-408c”][vc_column_text]Writer/Director: Maryanne Sam \nCast: Glenn Shea\, Kamarra Bell-Wykes\, Corey Saylor-Brunskill\, Anna Burgess\, Syd Brisbane and Carissa Lee.[/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-b9f1fbec-408c”][vc_column_text]\nTicket Prices:\nAll tickets: $15\n \nNO BOOKING FEE SURCHARGE[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][vc_empty_space]Buy Tickets [/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:theatre
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SUMMARY:Myra in Space
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-theatre-company”]\nfortyfivedownstairs play reading\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1648685577642{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-title”]\nMyra in Space by Bridgette Burton\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1648685591592{padding-bottom: 25px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-dates”]26 June 2022[/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_1648685751082{padding-top: 5px !important;}”]26 June 2022\n\ntime: 5pm\nticket price: $15\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-b9f1c515-f5d3″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Myra wishes that she were the Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova. If Myra had been Tereshkova\, she would not have lived her life moving in marital paralysis\, parenting her children and being the woman perennially behind the man. If Myra had been Tereshkova\, she would have realised that little girl who showed the boys how things were done. If Myra had been Tereshkova\, she would have gone into space\, her greatest and most precious dream. \nMyra Foreman is a woman who missed living her own life on earth\, but now may have another chance\, in space. \nThis play reading is supported by the Besen Family Foundation. The play was commissioned thanks to a grant from the Malcolm Robertson Foundation. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Cast and Creatives” tab_id=”1452941644640-19a0de81-e87a0201-342dcb0a-2ec9a177-581a2513-a5c51f1f-8993a3c4-5ca5cb85-3d54189f-4d6f8ba6-b9f1c515-f5d3″][vc_column_text]\nDirector: Alice Bishop\n\n\nCast: Kelly Nash\, Greg Parker\, Annie Lumsden\, James Bolton and Marissa O’Reilly\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Ticket Prices and Concessions” tab_id=”1452941768731-94b426f3-57530201-342dcb0a-2ec9a177-581a2513-a5c51f1f-8993a3c4-5ca5cb85-3d54189f-4d6f8ba6-b9f1c515-f5d3″][vc_column_text]\nTicket Prices:\nAll tickets: $15\n \nNO BOOKING FEE SURCHARGE[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][vc_empty_space]Buy Tickets [/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220621
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SUMMARY:Crucible
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nGROUP SHOW\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nCrucible\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]21 June – 16 July 2022\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 11am to 5pm\,\nSaturday 12pm to 4pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]\nOut of the pandemic emerged art founded on resilience\, humour\, absurdity\, and the celebration of life. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]James Yuncken\, Collins St\, 5pm 2020\, 2021-22\, acrylic on canvas\, 110 x 110cm. \nAnnette Fitton\, Mel's Mob (Figure Detail)\, 2022\, textiles\, 67 x 200 x 200cm.  \nLisa Sewards\, Northerly\, Southerly\, DISPLACED (homage to A Constant Hum by Alice Bishop)\, 2021\, assemblage of multi-plate etchings and graphite\, 105.0 x 105.0 cm  \nBraden Howard\, Prisoner Compliance (1/01/2021)\, 2021\, acrylic and pen on paper\, 10.5 x 15cm.  \nJanno McLaughlin\, The Space of In Between. \nRobyn Rich \nMichael Wedd\, Suabtomic Dragon\, 2021\, sennelier inks on 350gsm Arches paper\, 113 x 80cm.  \n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Crucible is a fortyfivedownstairs group exhibition responding to the triumphs and tribulations that the artistic community faced during the 2020-21 pandemic. Bringing together ten artists\, the exhibition explores the spectrum of effects that the pandemic had on artistic practices. \nFor two years\, the world – especially those of us in Melbourne – was confronted by challenges during the pandemic. Thoughts of vaccine hesitancy\, the spread of misinformation\, and extended lockdowns had severe psychological consequences. \nThe effect of the pandemic on the visual arts community was similar. Artists faced many unprecedented interruptions – studio spaces were closed\, exhibitions were postponed or cancelled\, access to materials was halted\, and many had loved ones to care for. The effect on artists varied widely; isolation encouraged frustrated artmakers to escape reality by looking inwards and focusing on their artistic practice. New techniques emerged and were developed\, new mediums tried and tested\, and different landscapes of the imagination were explored. Artists took the opportunity to reflect on past work and reconsider it in a new context. They found togetherness through collaborative projects with one another\, developing our ideas about community\, love\, and the sustaining principles of a kinder world – a compassion that unites us in uncertain times. \nOut of the pandemic emerged art founded on resilience\, humour\, absurdity\, and the celebration of life. Not only had we found hope through the consumption of art – in music\, books\, and media – artists channelled their survival into and through their creative endeavours. This exhibition is a visual acknowledgement of the beacons of light\, gems of hope\, and human strength that we now irrevocably share in our collective conscience.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220612
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SUMMARY:The Herring Island Piano Sonata
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-theatre-company”]Coady Green[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1652326157434{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-title”]\nThe Herring Island Piano Sonata\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1652316786759{padding-bottom: 25px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-dates”]5pm\, Sunday 12 June[/vc_column_text]book online [/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes” el_class=”ffds-theatre-details”][vc_column width=”2/3″]Linda Kouvaras\, Coady Green\, Carolyn Briggs and Tiriki Onus \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_1652317381862{padding-top: 5px !important;}”]5pm\, Sunday 12 June\n\nduration: 60 minutes\nticket price: $25 – $35\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-b9f191fd-27f2″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Internationally award-winning pianist Coady Green presents a solo piano recital that includes a uniquely special event. He is joined by renowned Yorta Yorta singer\, artist and curator\, Tiriki Onus for a preview performance of selections from Professor Linda Kouvaras’ major new work – Herring Island Piano Sonata\, using Roger Alsop’s sound design\, and narrated by Onus from text by senior Boon Wurrung elder N’arweet Dr Carolyn Briggs AM. \nThe Herring Island Piano Sonata evokes a variety of locations within a 5km radius of the manmade Herring Island in Melbourne’s Yarra River\, with N’arweet Briggs’ Indigenous stories powerfully interwoven through the work.  Here is an inherently conscious reckoning and reconciliation\, a desire for a healing confrontation with the place from where this sonata draws its ideas\, the solo instrument resonating with the species\, entities\, locales and histories of this small but richly historic area in Melbourne. \nThis is a major event and a powerful new collaboration between leading Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists. The work is supported by the Australia Council for the Arts\, City of Melbourne\, Creative Victoria\, and has recently been the recipient one of the eleven APRA/AMCOS awards.[/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-b9f191fd-27f2″][vc_column_text]Composer: Linda Kouvaras \nPianist: Coady Green \nNarrator: Tiriki Onus \nSound: Roger Alsop \nText: N’arweet Dr Carolyn Briggs AM[/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-b9f191fd-27f2″][vc_column_text]\nTicket Prices:\nFull: $35\nConcession: $25\nGroup 8+: $25 \nConcessions:\nPensioners/Full-time students/MEAA members \n  \nNO BOOKING FEE SURCHARGE[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][vc_empty_space]Buy Tickets [/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:theatre
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220612
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220613
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SUMMARY:Art and Life\, Domestic and Sublime
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-theatre-company”]\nCoady Green and Linda Barcan\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1648784816675{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-title”]\nArt and Life\, Domestic and Sublime: Solo Piano Works and Song Cycles by Katy Abbott and Linda Kouvaras\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1651115611945{padding-bottom: 25px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-dates”]2pm\, Sunday 12 June 2022[/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″]Linda Kouvaras\, Linda Barcan\, Coady Green and Katy Abbott \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_1651115630326{padding-top: 5px !important;}”]12 June 2022\n \nduration: 90 minutes including interval\ntime: 2pm\nticket price: $25 – $35\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-b9f130e4-8df3″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Mezzo-soprano: Linda Barcan \nPiano: Coady Green \nPoetry: Chris Wallace-Crabbe\, Diane Fahey\, Bronwyn Bartal\, Linda Kouvaras \nThis program pairs two major song cycles by Melbourne-based composers Linda Kouvaras and Katy Abbott\, Art and Life and The Domestic Sublime\, with a selection of their solo piano repertoire. Abbott and Kouvaras have gifted us with innovative\, engaging\, and powerful settings of poetry by Chris Wallace Crabbe\, Diane Fahey\, Bronwyn Bartal and Kouvaras herself. Mezzo-soprano Linda Barcan and pianist Coady Green give voice to words and music that wittily and movingly captures key life moments\, from making the bed to mourning lost love\, from a gentle lullaby to unjust imprisonment. \nProgram: \n\nKaty Abbott: Glisten for solo piano\nLinda Kouvaras: Art and Life: a song cycle for high female voice and piano\n\n\nSleeping Girl \nLullaby \nWoman’s Predicament\nParty Lines and Deaf Ears\nArt and Life\nDistant Lullaby\n\nInterval \n\nLinda Kouvaras: Shoalhaven Nightpainters for solo piano\nKaty Abbott: The Domestic Sublime for soprano and piano\n\n\nOn the Surface of Things\nIndoor Yachting\nCoat Hangers Galore\nSaucer\nGarlic\nAt the Clothesline\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artists” tab_id=”1452941644640-19a0de81-e87a0201-342dcb0a-2ec9a177-581a2513-a5c51f1f-8993a3c4-5ca5cb85-3d54189f-4d6f8ba6-b9f130e4-8df3″][vc_column_text][/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-b9f130e4-8df3″][vc_column_text]\nTicket Prices:\nFull: $35\nConcession: $25\nGroup 8+: $25 \nConcessions:\nPensioners/Full-time students/MEAA members \nNO BOOKING FEE SURCHARGE[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][vc_empty_space]Buy Tickets [/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:theatre
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220607
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220619
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SUMMARY:After the Fire
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nGavin Brown\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nAfter the Fire\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]7 June – 18 June 2022\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 11am to 5pm\,\nSaturday 12pm to 4pm\nEvenings: Tuesday & Friday 6pm – 8pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]\nTrying to make sense of this bizarre and difficult time\, Gavin turned his focus to hope. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Gavin Brown\, After the Fire 2\, oil on canvas\, 122 x 122cm. \nGavin Brown\, Natives in a Vase 25\, oil on canvas\, 76 x 92cm. \n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef” title=”Description”][vc_column_text]From the end of 2019 into the beginning of 2020\, fuelled by years of severe drought\, massive bushfires ravaged much of\nAustralia. Their aftermath had a devastating impact on people and the land. Thoughts of recovery seemed far from our\ncontrol. To make sense of it all\, Gavin Brown painted a work called After the Fire – an attempt to find beauty amidst the\nchaos of the crisis. \nAnd then coronavirus hit. The artist spent the majority of Melbourne’s lockdown in his studio\, looking outward. Once again\,\neverything appeared so ugly. Trying to make sense of this bizarre and difficult time\, Gavin turned his focus to hope. Instead\nof dwelling on the destruction he chose to concentrate on the regrowth of Australia’s flowering gums and native flowers. In\nresponse to this\, he set about creating optimistic artworks out of that time of devastation. \nAfter the Fire aims to bring a series of works that inspire confidence in the resilience of humankind and the regrowth of\nnature.[/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:20220607
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SUMMARY:Sacellum
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nChris Orr\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nSacellum\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]7 June – 18 June 2022\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 12pm to 6pm\nSaturday 12pm to 4pm\nEvenings: Tuesday & Friday 6pm – 8pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]\n..Sacellum: a small chapel within a church\, or a sanctuary dedicated to a deity… \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Chris Orr\, Holy go spitely\, colour emulsion flex\, 50 x 60cm.  \nChris Orr\, Gethsemane 3\, 2022\, pigment inks and rag\, 85 x 85cm.  \nChris Orr\, Miss information\, 2022\, pigment inks and rag\, 100 x 100cm.  \nChris Orr\, Gethsemane\, Binary 2022\, pigment inks and rag\, 85 x 140cm. \n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section title=”Description” tab_id=”1651111861192-94369e49-6d80″][vc_column_text]Sacellum: A small chapel within a church\, or a sanctuary dedicated to a deity.  \nSacellum by Chris Orr is an infected confection of the sacred and technology. A melancholic wink at consumerism and spirituality. A dialogue between a certain past and an uncertain future. \nThe artist reclaims engravings of Renaissance images and layers them with a mélange of modern detritus – from aluminium cans to discarded laptop motherboards – scanned at ultra-high resolution to reveal surprising new views and hidden landscapes. \nTechnology is as omnipotent and omnipresent as religion once was\, controlling what we see and feel\, for better or worse. In the past\, priests and preachers were the exclusive producers of cultural propaganda\, but today this role is subsumed by the ubiquity of our devices and our connection to the internet. \nSacellum is a contemplation of this control of our hearts and minds; a moving patternation of the contemporary and the classical. The portals of belief continue to look over us\, providing a glimmer of hope for what lies ahead. \nView the catalogue for this exhibition here.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/sacellum/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220529
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SUMMARY:Trash Pop Butterflies\, Dance Dance Paradise
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-theatre-company”]\nfortyfivedownstairs play reading\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1649301142886{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-title”]\nTrash Pop Butterflies\, Dance Dance Paradise by Maki Morita\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1649300639561{padding-bottom: 25px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-dates”]2pm\, Sunday 29 May 2022[/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_1649300790584{padding-top: 5px !important;}”]29 May 2022\n\nduration: 70 minutes\ntime: 2pm\nticket price: $15\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-b9f13404-4b7e” title=”Description”][vc_column_text]A clock turns backwards. A baby has lasers for eyes. A talking butterfly materialises in mid-air. \nTrash Pop Butterflies\, Dance Dance Paradise follows three young anarchists – Kitty\, Moon & Pepper – seeking a revolution in the face of climate catastrophe. \nPart theatre\, contemporary dance\, and Riot Grrrl fanzine come to life; Maki Morita’s anarchic and experimental work is about what it might take to create something beautiful and new out of ecological collapse. \nDirector: Amelia Burke \nDramaturg: Noemie Huttner-Koros \nCast: Zoe Resnick\, Matisse Laida\, Hayley Edwards\, Romaine McSweeney and Milo Hartill[/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-b9f13404-4b7e”][vc_column_text]Writer: Maki Morita \nDirector: Amelia Burke \nDramaturg: Noemie Huttner-Koros \nCast: Zoe Resnick\, Matisse Laida\, Hayley Edwards\, Romaine McSweeney and Milo Hartill[/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-b9f13404-4b7e”][vc_column_text]\nTicket Prices:\nAll tickets: $15 \nNO BOOKING FEE SURCHARGE[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][vc_empty_space]Buy Tickets [/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Cotton and Silk
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-theatre-company”]\nfortyfivedownstairs play reading\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1648683680498{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-title”]\nCotton and Silk by Benjamin Nichol\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1648773966640{padding-bottom: 25px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-dates”]5pm\, Sunday 29 May 2022[/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″]Benjamin Nichol \nBenjamin Nichol \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_1648683274696{padding-top: 5px !important;}”]29 May 2022\n\ntime: 5pm\nticket price: $15\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-b9f18306-7708″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Following the death of her partner\, Vivienne\, a celebrated dramatic soprano\, suffers a highly publicised breakdown. Despite a seven years estrangement\, Liv\, her long suffering\, and neglected daughter\, invites the grieving and disgraced diva home to Australia to repair their fractured relationship. What follows is a brittle and haunting reunion\, as mother and daughter are forced to interrogate the redemptive power of music\, the sins of their past\, and the limits to their love. \nDirector: Stephen Nicolazzo \nCast: Jennifer Vuletic\, Brigid Gallacher\, Paul Blenheim\, Eva Seymour and Daniel Nixon \nSupported in its development by fortyfivedownstairs and the Malcolm Robertson Foundation\, Cotton and Silk is the third play by playwright Benjamin Nichol.[/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-b9f18306-7708″][vc_column_text]Director: Stephen Nicolazzo \nCast: Jennifer Vuletic\, Brigid Gallacher\, Paul Blenheim and Eva Seymour[/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-b9f18306-7708″][vc_column_text]\nTicket Prices:\nAll tickets: $15\n \nNO BOOKING FEE SURCHARGE[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs]Buy Tickets [/vc_column][/vc_row]
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220524
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SUMMARY:GARDENS OF EVIL
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]o[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nVenus Virgin Tomarz\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nGARDENS OF EVIL\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]24 May – 4 June 2022\n\nhours:\nTues – Fri: 11am-5pm\nSat: 11am-3pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]\n..It all started with art and heart.\nA growth through the wonders of the free mind.\nVenus always saw the pinnacle of acceptance would come from those who adore the oomph of the new and wonderful…. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Venus Virgin Tomarz\, SPACE MONKEYS\, 2019-22\, collage\, 91cm x 122cm. \nVenus Virgin Tomarz\, Temptation Time\, 2019\, collage. \n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-093309a6-495c” title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Venus Virgin Tomarz invites you to examine modern day conflicts through a series of exploratory collages. The works take you through the development of technology\, climate change\, and the increase in world population\, waste/rape of the land resources\, disease/illness and the impacts of these changes to our planet\, society\, ethics and values. \nThe project aims to link historical understanding of eco-systems of nature and the biblical reference (GENISIS) of the Garden of Eden to our current crisis the world/Globe faces\, using cyphers / metaphors and set constructs to establish a central theme connecting the artist interpretation/view of a garden. \nArtist Venus takes the audience on a journey through time and space\, telling a traditional ancient story in the hope within the present and hope for future generations to take the opportunity to reflect\, review and rectify their individual and collective impact on Earth. \nThe need to explore and find a new planet to call home. Or is that to be to rape and pillage the resources to fix Earth…as PEAK is drawing near. \nThe project planning & preparation began in early 2018\, with specific image items collected\, some items photographed then printed to create the visual / narrative.  As the series developed and world events such as the Coronavirus came into play\, each scene electrified the significance of the message. \nThe artist began creating this body of work in solation during the COVID-19 lockdowns. \nThis body of work is collage on large canvas to be sold as an original piece at gallery exhibition. \nPrints of the series will also be available in various sizes (unframed only).[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-093309a6-495c”][vc_column_text]There’s no glimmer with our glamazon.\nShe’s the glambassador of intersexuality.\nThe land of zoom where all creatures are fun and wise.\nWhere did this artsexual come from? \nThe gutter would be fashionable\, but that’s not it. \nYou could say Venus came from Cool City. And you’d be right.\nShe’s been chilling in Cool City until the eggs of genius hatched.\nAnd we love a smart chick. \nIt all started with art and heart.\nA growth through the wonders of the free mind.\nVenus always saw the pinnacle of acceptance would come from those who adore the oomph of the new and wonderful. \nShe is the product of a rampant imagination that found itself applying to all areas of beauty\, business and enterprise. There was something missing though. She found it in the wardrobe of deluxe fabrication. The wow factor made her whole. Her fate was to be a femme. The proper use of the femme fatale if the truth be known. \nOut of the shell came Venus. The fashionistic. \nAnd with such impact. She has rocketed to the galaxy of untold glamour and panache. \nNever has an emergence been quite so fun and phallic. Riding a rocket\, the glamazon … you do the math. \nIn the distance behind this rocketing star are strewn her huge careers in music\, design\, fashion\, make-up\, hair and all the other dazzlers. \nEnter now\, please\, the Glamazone. \nVenus Virgin Tomarz has eclipsed everything. \nThe glamburger with the lot. \nEat. \nAuthor – Ian Buckland 2016 ©\n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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