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SUMMARY:Mighty Melbourne
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]\nARTHUR TED POWELL\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nMighty Melbourne\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]8 – 19 May 2018\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]\n…a nod to Melbourne’s vainglorious rise as a global city… \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3f462-dae5″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Melbourne has been the inspiration for eight of Arthur Ted Powell’s solo exhibitions between 2010-2018. He has painted Melbourne and its environs at night (Rivers of Light 2010)\, as a topographical map (Mapping Melbourne 2011)\, a geographic coordinate (145 Degrees East 2012)\, an historic grid (GRID 2014)\, a state of mind (Melbourne on my Mind 2014) and from an imagined Astral Plane (2015). The exhibition Eureka! (2016) served as a visual metaphor for the immoderate ambitions of Melbourne’s architects\, designers and city planners to see the city grow and prosper. \nThe title of this latest exhibition\, Mighty Melbourne (2018) is a nod to Melbourne’s vainglorious rise as a global city\, a vast living organism pulsating with human energy. Powell continues to take an abstract approach in reimagining the city from vantage point above\, this time along a stretch of the Yarra River. From an imaginary birds-eye view Melbourne’s footprint appears smaller\, and abstract patterns emerge that are not evident at street level. \nOn paper and canvas\, Powell attempts to capture in real time what is here today and will be gone tomorrow. A moment in time when the last vestiges of Mighty Melbourne (as it was once coined in the nineteenth century) are rapidly vanishing beneath shiny glass towers\, and once recognisable landmarks are sliding into illegibility\, reclothed in bright new cladding. The almost one million people present in the city on any given day [1] lost in the blue darkness of shadow cast long against towering walls and onto pavements below. \n[1] City of Melbourne\, Daily Population Estimates and Forecasts\, 2017[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3f462-dae5″][vc_column_text]Arthur Ted Powell is a British-born contemporary landscape/cityscape artist\, printmaker\, urban sketcher and advertising art director living in Melbourne\, Australia. He studied Fine Art and Advertising Design at Ealing College of Art and St Martin’s School of Art in London\, under influential abstract artists\, including Roy Ascott\, Anthony Benjamin and Bernhard Cohen\, before embarking on a career in advertising. For many years he worked full-time as an art director and creative director in some of the world’s largest advertising agencies in Australia\, New Zealand\,Taiwan\, USA\, UK and Thailand\, and won numerous international awards for his work. Powell returned to Australia in 2004 to embark on a full-time career as a painter and printmaker. He works from a studio at Gasworks Arts Park\, Albert Park.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist Talk” tab_id=”1525751274441-4e990ef1-537e”][vc_column_text]MIGHTY MELBOURNE \nArtist Talk with Arthur Ted Powell\nSaturday 12 May\, 2pm\nfortyfivedownstairs \nFREE EVENT[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Imaging the Filmic Gloriana: The Mask of Elizabeth
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]\nJanita Ryan\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]25 July – 5 August 2017\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 11am to 5pm\,\nSaturday 12pm to 4pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]\n…a meditation on regaining authorship of one’s own story. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″]Glenda Jackson Mary Queen of Scots\, 2015\, gouache on paper\, 80 x 130mm \nLaoise Murray The Tudors\, 2016\, gouache on paper\, 80 x 130mm \nVanessa Redgrave Anonymous\, 2015\, gouache on paper\, 80 x 130mm \nBetty Davis The Virgin Queen\, 2015\, gouache on paper\, 80 x 130mm \nCate Blanchett Elizabeth the Golden Age\, 2015\, gouache on paper\, 80 x 130mm \n[/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1451285630039-f4b33ad9-e290b1db-6de197b0-7687″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]The purse-sized gouache miniature portraits by Janita Ryan are a meditation on regaining authorship of one’s own story. \nThey are based upon 16 movie stills of actors playing Elizabeth I\, the Queen who rose to become one of histories most inspiring leaders despite being born a bastard\, labeled a rebel spinster\, thrown into the Tower of London\, the survivor of both sexual and domestic abuse and being the beneficiary of privilege and victim of adversity. \nThese portraits contemplate how dramaturges and wardrobe departments have represented and misrepresented this feminist icon and contemplate how in real life she became empowered to be the author of her own destiny and story whilst others conspired to corrupt and usurp it. \nWe speed read faces\, scanning them with a type of visual shorthand as we skim over the chiaroscuro shadows\, allowing our gaze to shoot towards the highlights. Details in shadows recede\, failing to register\, allowing the stronger highlights to dictate the reading of the image. As in life\, those when the loudest voices dominate the story telling whilst those with the quieter ones recede and become muted by the shadows. \nIf the devil is in the detail then the devil screams in these highly detailed studies that impede a speed-read and demand a more multifaceted reading of one woman’s story as told by 16 others. \nThe portraits are housed in over the top\, highly ornamental resin frames embellished with baroque arabesques and objects both referring to the cinema and the reign of Elizabeth I.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Script” tab_id=”1451285630325-09def419-bb74b1db-6de197b0-7687″][vc_column_text]Imaging the Filmic Gloriana/The Mask of Elizabeth \n  \nScene 1.  \nScenic Description \nAerial shot of London skyline featuring Houses of Parliament\, Big Ben\, London Eye. \nPan shot of people laughing as they disembark from a cab\, collect their luggage and climb a flight a stairs to the Hotel. \nCamera pans up hotel exterior and zooms through 2nd floor bedroom window to \nREBECCA\, a tall\, jittery\, disheveled looking woman\, whose marriage has just collapsed. She sits chain smoking at a desk painting a miniature portrait of Josephine Bonaparte. Her paints rest on an invoice for a portrait of Napoleon\, to be featured on the cover of a historical fiction novel\, but it is his toothless sugar loving ex-wife that interests Rebecca. \nCell phone rings. Rebecca answers\, depressed empty tone to her voice \nREBECCA: Max\, oh Max\, I’m struggling. I don’t know who I am anymore. I’m not who my ex. “…….” Zed\, claims I am. I’m lost. “……” I don’t know who I am. \nMAX:  Heaps of people go cactus when relationships end Bec. \nREBECCA: I’m sitting here doing portraits of Josephine Bonaparte and wondering who the hell she really was. Did she really collapse when Napoleon left her? Or was it his PR spinning a tale? Women’s stories always get sooooooo overridden. \n  \nScene 98 \nSome years later \nMax and Rebecca\, who is now much better groomed\, sit on a verandah in outback Queensland. She pulls out a chocolate box from her purse\, opens it and takes from it 16 miniature gouaches of different actors playing Elizabeth 1. \nMAX:  Why paint these Bec? \nREBECCA: I guess they’re a chance for me to contemplate one of the many women who gave me courage when I was going down the gurgler. After all\, she is such a feminist icon. A woman who was born a bastard\, labeled a rebel spinster\, thrown into the Tower of London\, survivor of both sexual and domestic abuse\, the beneficiary of privilege and yet the victim of great adversity. From all of this she rose to be one of histories most illustrious leaders. I mean\, she really became empowered to be the author of her own destiny and story whilst others conspired to corrupt it. \nDissolve to white. \nTHE END[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Art\, Life\, Love\, Death\, Immortality\, and a Respectable Haircut…
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]\nRehgan De Mather\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]25 July-5 August 2017\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 11am to 5pm\,\nSaturday 12pm to 4pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]\nWhen we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.” – Patrick Rothfuss\, The Name of the Wind \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″]Rehgan De Mather\, Dancing Skeleton\, 2017\, acrylic\, spray enamel\, oil stick and collage on canvas\, 300 x 300mm \nRehgan De Mather\, [DIOS] Mother is God\, 2017\, acrylic\, spray enamel and tin heart on canvas\, 1400 x 1400mm \nRehgan De Mather\, Bebe on Board\, 2017\, collage\, road sign\, frame and spray enamel mounted on marine ply\, 630 x 630mm \nRehgan De Mather\, Conflict and Consumption\, 2017\, acrylic\, spray enamel\, oil stick\, charcoal\, graphite and collage on canvas\, 1400 x 1400mm \n[/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1451285630039-f4b33ad9-e290b1db-6de1439b-e153″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]After a four-month residency at fortyfivedownstairs\, Rehgan De Mather presents Art\, Life\, Love\, Death\, Immortality\, and a Respectable Haircut…\, an exhibition inspired by his travels through Mexico and South America. \nThe colourful and celebratory Day of the Dead and Carnival specifically inform this new series of paintings and objects. As well\, the impact of major life milestones such as marriage and parenthood lend to the underlying humour and honesty of the exhibition. \nArt\, Life\, Love\, Death\, Immortality\, and a Respectable Haircut… investigates notions of morality through the metaphor of movement\, both in travel and through life. Employing a creative process that shifts between chaos and order\, a process itself that mirrors life and death; a balancing act between the desire to cram as much into life and art as possible\, and the inevitable editing that results in measuring what is actually possible. The exhibition presents a colourful and exciting collection of collages\, constructions and paintings.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1451285630325-09def419-bb74b1db-6de1439b-e153″][vc_column_text]With numerous solo and group exhibitions\, as well as being selected as a finalist in many high-profile awards\, Rehgan De Mather has quickly established himself as an artist to watch. \nSince completing his BVA at Monash University Gippsland in 2001\, De Mather has held 24 solo exhibitions and been involved in over 30 group exhibitions throughout Australia. \nHe has been selected three times as a finalist in the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship\, Agendo Art Award\, and Arc Yinnar Drawing Prize; twice in the Sunshine Coast Art Prize\, Black Swan Prize for Portraiture\, Mount Eyre Art Prize\, Prometheus Visual Arts Award\, Lethbridge 10\,000 Small Scale Art Award\, and John Leslie Art Prize\, as well as being a finalist in the Araluen Art Prize\, City of Whyalla Art Prize\, Stanthorpe Arts Festival\, Cambridge Studio Gallery Portrait Prize\, Clayton Utz Art Award and the 6th P.A.F International Drawing Biennale. \nHe was a semi-finalist in the arts category of the Young Australian of the Year Awards\, and a recipient of a Regional Arts Development Grant through Arts Victoria. He was awarded a yearlong residency at Appleton Street Studios in 2011 courtesy of the Sandra Bardas Studio Grant\, was selected as the 2013 RAW Melbourne Visual Artist of the Year\, and was recently awarded the 2017 residency and exhibition at fortyfivedownstairs. \nDe Mather was born in Adelaide\, grew up in Sale\, and currently lives and works in Melbourne.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Wet Feet
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]\nDavid Hirst\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]11-22 July 2017\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 11am to 5pm\,\nSaturday 12pm to 4pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]\nThe present works express the artist’s dismay at the way in which we are ignoring the effects of climate change on others. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″]David Hirst \nDavid Hirst \nDavid Hirst \nDavid Hirst \nDavid Hirst \n[/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1451285630039-f4b33ad9-e290b1db-6de1f082-d09d” title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Art attempts to trap an emotion\, memory or idea\, which can be shared with or be re-interpreted by others.  The present works express the artist’s dismay at the way in which we are ignoring the effects of climate change on others.  As the sea level rises many Pacific islands are being swamped. \nThe ‘faces’ in the present paintings and sculptures are based on the artist’s interpretation of works of art which came from these islands.  Little is being done to preserve the cultures from which such works originated; rather jokes\, such as ‘There are going to be a lot of Wet Feet’\, are made about the consequences of the rising sea levels.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1451285630325-09def419-bb74b1db-6de1f082-d09d”][vc_column_text]After a distinguished career as a Research Professor in Neuroscience at the University of Melbourne\, in his retirement David Hirst has embarked on a painting career which is influenced by his travels and work as a research scientist. \nHirst was awarded a Diploma of Visual Arts from CAE in 2012. Wet Feet is his third solo exhibition at fortyfivedownstairs.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/wetfeet/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170516
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170528
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SUMMARY:Truth in the Shadow
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]\nSandra Dean\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]16-27 May 2017\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 11am to 5pm\,\nSaturday 12pm to 4pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]\nProvoking and reminding us to appreciate\, to see\, beauty in the everyday. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″]Kyneton Jug\, 2016\, Oil on Board\, 20x20cm \nLemon\, 2016\, Oil on Board\, 20x33cm \nGlass and Persimmon\, 2016\, Oil on Board\, 45x28cm \nQuince\, 2016\, Oil on Board\, 35x35cm \nStony Ground\, 2016\, Oil on Board\, 20x33cm \n[/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1451285630039-f4b33ad9-e290b1db-6de1dd96-7ed5″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Stillness    Beauty    Truth    Presence \nVisual poetry\, objects from the everyday\, simple moments. An onion laying on a wooden shelf\, a hand crafted bowl\, a single bloom. Provoking and reminding us to appreciate\, to see\, beauty in the everyday.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Landscape Paintings
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]\nAlexandra Sassé\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]2-13 May 2017\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 11am to 5pm\,\nSaturday 12pm to 4pm\nopening: Tuesday 2 May\, 5pm to 7pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]\n…the juxtaposition of urban and natural forms\, and the ongoing attempts to reconcile our lives with our places. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″]Alexandra Sassé\, A Quiet Day in Northcote\, 2016\, oil on canvas\, 65 x 85cm  \nAlexandra Sassé\, Abbotsford from Studley Park\, 2016\, oil on canvas\, 65 x 85cm Private Collection \nAlexandra Sassé\, Clifton Hill from Studley Park\, 2017\, oil on canvas\, 76 x 97 cm \nAlexandra Sassé\, Clear Day Camberwell\, oil on canvas \nAlexandra Sassé\, Hawthorn towards Richmond\, oil on canvas\, 85 x 65cm  \n[/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1451285630039-f4b33ad9-e290b1db-6de19d3d-a789″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Contemporary landscape painting sits in a very specific relation to history as well as to place\, culture and identity. Landscape painting throughout the twentieth century became a marginalised practice in the context of twentieth century abstraction and certain narrow readings of modernism. However\, it remained a vital resource and practice for artists\, and some of the most memorable images from the period are landscapes such as Drysdale’s The Cricketers  (1948)\, Brack’s Collins St 5pm\, Nolan’s Ned Kelly series and Smart’s Cahill Expressway . Today’s practitioners of the craft range from the folk tradition of Sunday painters to highly acclaimed contemporary painters as diverse in their approaches as William Robinson (AUS)\, Philip Wolfhagen (AUS)\, Antonio Lopez Garcia (SPAIN)and Wayne Thiebaud (USA). Ranging from a high degree of urban realism (Lopez Garcia) to gothic-inspired forests and mountains (Robinson)\, Turner-esque studies of cloud forms (Wolfhagen)\, and stylised flattened forms that recall both mid century modernism and pop (Thiebaud) contemporary landscape painting is a vibrant plethora. \nArtist Statement: \nThis body of work has a very simple premise. It grew out of my interest in looking at things in the world around me and making pictures. These works come not from an analysis\, but from an encounter. The work is not a proposition but a set of objects. On the other hand you will encounter recurring themes – I am fascinated by the juxtaposition of urban and natural forms\, and the ongoing attempts to reconcile our lives with our places. I feel very passionately about the particularities of the volumes of space that are uniquely Australian. And I am very grateful for the vast resource of paintings made across history upon which we can draw\, and without which\, these works could not exist.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1451285630325-09def419-bb74b1db-6de19d3d-a789″][vc_column_text]Alexandra Sassé is a painter based in Melbourne\, Australia. She exhibits in national curated exhibitions and solo shows. She writes art criticism for Australian Trouble Mag\, and UK The Jackdaw as well as on her blog. A short film about her work screened at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival and the Lido Cinema in 2016. Sassé has been shortlisted for the Moran Prize twice and the National Portrait Award three times and Highly Commended in the Arc Yinnar Drawing Award. The Melbourne Cricket Club has six of her works on permanent display. \nAlexandra Sassé holds an MFA from Monash University and a PGDVA from the Victorian College of the Arts.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Juxtapositional
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]\nGeoffrey Falk\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]2-13 May 2017\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 11am to 5pm\,\nSaturday 12pm to 4pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]\n…overlaying of the shadows of the past and the foreshadowing of the future which are in evidence in our cities\, towns and countryside. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″]MacDonnell Ranges\, Indian ink and oil on canvas\, 168cm x 102cm\, 2016 \nHighway One\, Oil on canvas\, 168cm x 102cm\, 2005 \nMekong\, Indian ink and oil on canvas\, 76cm x 51cm\, 2017 \nWest Gippsland\, Oil on canvas\, 107cm x 56cm\, 2017 \nNylex Plastic Morning\, Oil on canvas\, 168cm x 102cm\, 2017 \n[/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1451285630039-f4b33ad9-e290b1db-6de1d821-e8b5″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]This exhibition explores Australian and Asian landscape and cityscape in relation to concepts of emptiness and richness both physically and culturally. It is inspired by the overlaying of the shadows of the past and the foreshadowing of the future which are in evidence in our cities\, towns and countryside. \nWhat may appear to be\, on first sight\, an empty landscape carries within it deep indigenous knowledge and culture\, stories of creation and landforms. \nPeople moved through this landscape for many thousands of years treading lightly on the land and taking care of it. \nContrast the impact of human development on landscape\, the tilled fields of Vietnam\, the urban landscape of the city\, the cleared hills of Gippsland where native vegetation has been replaced by imported grasses and windbreaks of cypress trees. \nThe severe impact of a few hundred years of anthropogenic climate change\, compared to millennia of humankind walking lightly on the land which is a part of them\, taking only what is necessary\, taking care of the source of all being.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1451285630325-09def419-bb74b1db-6de1d821-e8b5″][vc_column_text]Artist/architect Geoffrey Falk began drawing and painting seriously during his architecture studies at RMIT. The course in those days had a strong emphasis on hand drawing\, model making and painting. \nGeoffrey’s work has a wider public element through his practice as an architect\, urban designer and illustrator. His folio includes many visualisations commissioned by Melbourne and other local councils and Government Departments used for public and political consultations and for publication in major Melbourne Metropolitan Newspapers.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/juxtapositional/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:gallery
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20161108T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20161108T170000
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UID:10004048-1478602800-1478624400@fortyfivedownstairs.com
SUMMARY:Waterways of Daylesford
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]\nAllan Wolf-Tasker\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]8-19 November 2016\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 11am to 5pm\,\nSaturday 12pm to 4pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]\n…the intimacy of the valley and immediacy of the water’s edge. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″]Allan Wolf-Tasker 002 \nAllan Wolf-Tasker 024 \nAllan Wolf-Tasker 004 \nAllan Wolf-Tasker 008 \nAllan Wolf-Tasker 020 \n[/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1451285630039-f4b33ad9-e290b1db-6de1363d-d0ec” title=”Description”][vc_column_text]This body of work follows on from the Daylesford Landscape series and concentrates on the area known as Central Springs Reserve in the village of Daylesford\, Victoria’s Central Highlands. \nAfter living on the shores of this waterway for several decades Allan finds ample motivation to create a wide range of optimistic imagery. \nThe large colourful canvases take inspiration from the intimacy of the valley and immediacy of the water’s edge\, however viewers will find he has taken plenty of license with the palette and natural state of the landscape. \n  \nAllan’s book “Lake Daylesford” will be available to purchase throughout the exhibition. $30. \nWords by Andrew Masterson\, photography by Sharyn Cairns. \nIt is also available to buy online from November \nwww.allanwolftasker.com.au[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1451285630325-09def419-bb74b1db-6de1363d-d0ec”][vc_column_text]Allan Wolf-Tasker is a painter living in Australia. His time is spent split between three studios\, Melbourne\, Wye River and Daylesford. The latter is set amongst the lush gardens of the renowned Lake House hotel\, restaurant & spa which he built with his wife and business partner Alla. \nAllan’s work has always drawn inspiration from many different fields. Whilst the early years saw strong links with the land\, the effect of drought and flood etc there has also been a popular series inspired by the intimate nature of hospitality and a 3 dimensional series of still lives. The most recent paintings reveal a return to the landscape – strong aerial views of coastal waters and also the creek beds throughout Daylesford and spa country. \nExhibitions include group and solo shows in Melbourne\, Perth\, Sydney and New York. \nAllan Wolf-Tasker’s work is now represented internationally in both private and public collections.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/waterways-of-daylesford/2016-11-08/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:gallery
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20161011T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20161011T170000
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SUMMARY:To whom it may concern
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]\nBill Hay\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]11-22 October 2016\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 11am to 5pm\,\nSaturday 12pm to 4pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]\n…the age old business of pushing coloured mud around with a hairy stick. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″]Bill Hay\, To Whom It May\, 2016\, gouache on 250 gsm Velin Arches Paper\, 76 x 56cm \n[/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1451285630039-f4b33ad9-e290b1db-6de14545-03b4″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Bill Hay’s new series of gouache paintings come from the artist’s deliberate decision to elevate the subconscious. His primary concern has been to engage with the paint and by so doing\, surprise himself with the outcome. \nAlthough some of the subject matter is thematically connected\, this is due more to coincidence than careful planning. The inclusion of Royal Park bird-life in many paintings stems more from Hay’s regular use of the park than a predetermined effort to portray the park. \nForcing the paint\, both literally and figuratively towards its limits was the driving force behind these works; finding connections and imagery in the paintings\, has been for the artist\, an added bonus arising from the “age old business of pushing coloured mud around with a hairy stick.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist Bio” tab_id=”1475045634258-27b5609d-b445″][vc_column_text]Bill Hay is a Melbourne based artist. He has exhibited extensively in Melbourne and throughout Australia.  In 2005 Hay was commissioned by the City of Melbourne to make a series of Relief Prints to be presented as gifts to dignitaries during the Commonwealth Games. His work is in several collections including the National Gallery of Victoria.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/to-whom-it-may-concern/2016-10-11/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:gallery
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20161011T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20161011T170000
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UID:10004036-1476183600-1476205200@fortyfivedownstairs.com
SUMMARY:New Paintings
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]\nCathy Drummond\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]11-22 October 2016\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 11am to 5pm\,\nSaturday 12pm to 4pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]\nA compulsion to respond to the world around her… \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″]Cathy Drummond\, Sam Bear's\, 2013\, oil on linen\, 102 x 137cm \n[/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1451285630039-f4b33ad9-e290b1db-6de14f07-2482″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Cathy Drummond’s series of new work is a continuation of a compulsion to respond to the world around her\, to our social landscape\, as she reflects on what we see and pass through every day. \nThe subject matter is carefully selected\, but is no more important than the act of painting and the consideration of colour\, shape\, spatial relationships and the development of a narrative\, which often evolves as the painting progresses.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist Bio” tab_id=”1475045802189-65a8cb80-8eee”][vc_column_text]Cathy Drummond is a Melbourne-based artist. Her paintings have been included in several publications and group exhibitions in Melbourne and throughout Australia.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/new-paintings/2016-10-11/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:gallery
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20160719T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20160719T170000
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SUMMARY:The Metaphysics of Space: Painting a Body of Light
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]\nElla Whateley\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]19-30 July 2016\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 11am to 5pm\,\nSaturday 12pm to 4pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]\n…painting the changing light of the real world. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″]Ella Whateley\, Coming to Compline (part of Liturgy of the Hours)\, acrylic\, gouache and pigments on linen\, composite of 3 works\, each 180cm x 130cm \nElla Whateley\, Communicant: Kindness\, Ink and pigments on Lana paper 800gsm\, 2015\, 150cm x 106cm  \n[/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1451285630039-f4b33ad9-e290b1db-6de156f2-dcd5″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]“Through the evocative language of painting\, my hope is to create an invitation to the metaphysical. As an abstract painter and a person of faith\, abstraction offers me a contemporary\, non-prescriptive language with the potential to explore space and light as both subject and medium within the work.” \nThe Metaphysics of Space: Painting a Body of Light is the culmination of Ella Whateley’s practice-led doctoral research in Painting at the ANU School of Art. Building on the rich symbolic and experiential tradition of Western religious painting\, Whateley’s research has focused on the significance of light\, concentrating on two approaches to creating luminosity in paint: materialising light through the materials used and painting the changing light of the real world. \nWhilst on retreat at The Abbey in Kangaroo Valley\, Whateley experienced the unfamiliar monastic tradition of The Liturgy of the Hours. On her return home\, Whateley was motivated to attempt to stimulate the viewer’s sense of interior and exterior space through creating an embodied experience of painted light. Consequently this monastic encounter has resulted in a series of painted investigations into the nature of light and space in which the interactive materials and colour interactions are intended to be facilitative devices for exploring the sacred potential of the image. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1451285630325-09def419-bb74b1db-6de156f2-dcd5″][vc_column_text]Ella Whateley is a Canberra-based artist and academic. \nWith an academic and professional background in Design and Art Direction\, Whateley’s art practice has developed with influences for many different areas of the visual arts. Exhibiting consistently throughout Australia since 2005\, The Metaphysics of Space: Painting a Body of Light at fortyfivedownstairs is Ella Whateley’s first solo exhibition in Melboune.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/metaphysics-space-painting-body-light/2016-07-19/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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