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SUMMARY:Of Dingoes & Witch-Hunts
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nSharon Monagle\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nOf Dingoes & Witch-Hunts\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]31 October – 11 November 2023\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n..powerful metaphors of suppression\, persecution and an evolving struggle that speaks to our history\, our culture and values… \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]Have we ever questioned a man’s right to power because of the generous dimensions of his arse? \nIs a man ever asked why he does not have children? \nWhen a dingo took her child\, why was Lindy Chamberlain accused of witchcraft? And when Julia Gillard unseated a sitting Prime Minister\, why was her act portrayed as treachery rather than ambition? \nSome questions are not really questions. They are part of a patriarchal enforcement system\, reinstating a hierarchy that is entrenched in conceptions of motherhood\, in limited gender roles\, in traditional marriage and in the right to participate in the shaping of society. \n“Of Dingoes and Witch-Hunts” is inspired by familiar stories of Australian women and their journey to equality; powerful metaphors of suppression\, persecution and an evolving struggle that speaks to our history\, our culture and values. \nIn a series of figurative paintings depicting themes of persecution\, exile and misogyny\, the artist draws on historical references to witch-hunting – as well as contemporary Australian stories – to illuminate the persistence of the witch-hunt in its modern-day incarnation. \n-Sharon Monagle\, Artist Statement[/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]SHARON MONAGLE // Artist CV \n“Through art I hope to explore\, understand and empathise with the human experience: our reactions to self\, to others and to the world around us”. \nEXHIBITIONS AND PRIZES \n2023\nGroup Exhibition\, Unframed Art\, Mornington \n2022\nGroup Exhibition\, Somers Art Fair\, Somers Vic\nPeninsula Studio Trail Group Exhibition\, The Studio\, Mornington Vic\nFinalist Southern Buoy Studios Portrait Prize Mornington Vic\nSummer Series Group Exhibition 26 Advantage\, Highett Vic \n2021\nFinalist Bluethumb Art Prize\nFinalist Southern Buoy Studios Portrait Prize\nCelebration of Life\, E + Hive\, Collingwood Vic\nWinter’s Light\, Group exhibition\, 26Advantage\, Highett Vic\n2020 Shelter in Place\, Solo exhibition G3Artspace Parkdale Vic\nLes Femmes\, Group exhibition\, THE SPACE Gallery\, Rosebery NSW \n2020\nFinalist Space2be Heads High Portrait prize\nFinalist\, Southern Buoy Studios Landscape Prize\nGroup exhibition\, The Portsea Gallery\, Portsea Vic\nHeads High Portrait show\, Space2b Gallery\, St Kilda Vic\nLinden Postcard show\, Linden New Art Gallery\, St Kilda Vic\n“International Women’s Day Group Exhibition”\, WHO Gallery Malvern Vic\n“Balancing Act”\, No Vacancy Gallery\, Melbourne Vic \n2019\nFinalist\, Southern Buoy Studios Portrait Prize\nSelected to interview with Artbank Roadshow\, Canberra ACT\n“Bayside Studio of Art Group Exhibition\,” Mulbury Gallery Highett Vic\n“Bodies: Paint\, poetry and form”\, Mulbury Gallery Highett Vic\n“Women\, Working and Wandering\,” Group Exhibition\, No Vacancy Gallery\, Melbourne Vic\nSolo exhibition “Falling Women\,” Mulbury Gallery Highett Vic \n2018\nSemi-finalist\, Cambridge Studio Gallery “Who’s looking at you” Portrait prize\nSemi-finalist\, Cambridge Studio Gallery “Life Abstracted” Abstract art prize\nDenis Diderot Artist-in-Residence Grant\, Chateau d’Orquevaux\, Champagne-Ardenne\, France\nFeatured Artist\, Cambridge Studio Gallery\, Collingwood Vic\n“Women\, Science and Faith”\, Group Exhibition\, No Vacancy Gallery\, Melbourne Vic\n“Diversity\,” Group exhibition Hall and Wilcox\, Melbourne Vic\nSandy Beach Community Art Exhibition\, Sandringham Vic\nGroup exhibition Le Studio Artspace\, Mordialloc Vic \n2017\nSemi-finalist\, Cambridge Studio Gallery “Who’s looking at you” Portrait prize\nSemi-finalist\, Cambridge Studio Gallery “Life Abstracted” Abstract art prize\nSemi-finalist\, Georges River Art Prize\nFinalist and Special Merit Award\, Light Space and Time “Women Only” exhibition\n“Nausea in my arm”\, Solo exhibition\, G3 Art space Parkdale Vic\nGroup Exhibition Le Studio Artspace\, Mordialloc Vic\n“Life Abstracted” abstract art exhibition\, Cambridge Studio Gallery\, Collingwood Vic\nGroup exhibition\, AK Bellinger Gallery\, Inverell NSW\n“At Home”\, Group Exhibition Birds Gallery\, Kew Vic\n“Landscapes Reflected and Represented\,” Group exhibition\, Brunswick St Gallery\, Brunswick Vic\n“Meanderings in Visual Language”: Group Exhibition\, No Vacancy Gallery\, Melbourne Vic\nContemporary Art Society A4 Art Australia Exhibition\, Herring Island Vic\nMESAC Easel art exhibition Beaumaris Vic  \n2016\nRunner up: James and Nicky Humphrey Encouragement award  (Highly Commended) Beaumaris Art Group\n“Who’s looking at you?” Portrait exhibition\, Cambridge Studio Gallery\, Collingwood Vic\nLinden Gallery Postcard show St Kilda Vic\nBeaumaris Art Group members exhibition\, Beaumaris Vic\nThe Belle Arti Art Prize\, Richmond Vic\nGroup exhibition Le Studio Artspace\, Mordialloc Vic \nWEBSITE: sharonmonagleart.com\nInstagram: sharonmonagleart[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Events” tab_id=”1699497295399-baa7a9ef-2787″][vc_column_text]Poetry Reading \nSaturday 11th November\n2:00pm – 4:00pm\nLarge Gallery \nJoin us as Melbourne poets Rose Lucas\, Anne Elvey\, and Angela Costi share work created in response to the exhibition. \nFree Entry\nAll Welcome\nNo Pre-Booking Required\nBeverages Provided[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Lebenslust
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nDena Ashbolt\, Artist & Gudrun Ilana Guriel\, Author\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nLebenslust\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]17 – 28 October 2023\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n..exploring through oil paint\, the artist creates works that evoke the emotion\, movement and phases… \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″]\n	Page 1\n	Page 2\n	Next\n\n[/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]Dena Ashbolt’s new exhibition Lebenslust (Joy of Life) is inspired by Gudrun Ilana Guriel’s life manuscript of the same title\, Lebenslust\, written to review the history of her family and as a gift for her grandchildren.  Ashbolt\, a visual artist and experienced film maker\, has been working with Ilana on the project since August 2020.  Ashbolt has integrated the complex narratives of Ilana’s life into her visual art practice\, exploring through oil paint\, to create works that evoke the emotion\, movement and phases of Ilana’s life. \nIlana undertook the journey of her memoir and its illustration with the intention of not only setting a stage of life in post war Germany\, but also of revealing the intergenerational secrets she has recognised in her family.  Her manuscript has been in development for the past decade\, and the working relationship with Ashbolt started as a result of their mutual enthusiasm for images of movement.  When they commenced their collaboration in they had little idea of how it would grow and go on to take a life of its own. \nAshbolt’s work is inspired by time passing as revealed by movement. On viewing her work\, Ilana appreciated Ashbolt’s intuition for representing movement and it was through the course of the collaboration the pair developed a way of working.  Starting with photographs and memories narrated by Ilana\, Ashbolt studied body language\, positioning of family members and at times considering who might have taken the photo and why.  These discussions offered clues for how each work would evolve – the motivation for each painting developed over time and conversation. \nIlana: “Through this project I learnt to look\, through Dena I learnt to see\, to recognise things in my life I hadn’t noticed before.  The image of Mama and myself at the table – I had always thought I had a bad relationship with my mother – it was only when we painted this image that I could sense the joy we felt for each other. “ \nDena: “Our relationship with time\, and time passing\, is something that underlies pretty much all of my work\, in very diverse contexts\, and this project has allowed me to explore that.  It has been such a magical commission – freedom to interpret stories\, photographs\, moments in time.  To evolve an impression of a person\, place and family.”[/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]\nDr Dena Ashbolt is a perceptual artist whose cinematic drawing technique consistently engages with time\, its flow and passing. Her interdisciplinary practice includes drawing and painting\, printmaking\, filmmaking\, photo-media\, and collaborative performance projects. Born in London\, she graduated in Film and Photography at the University of Westminster. In 2015 she obtained a doctorate in Fine Art from Monash University.  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Events” tab_id=”1697849756220-be70a034-cd6a”][vc_column_text]Artist and Author Q & A  \nWednesday 25 October\, 5-6pm\, in the small gallery \nA Q & A with exhibting artist Dena Ashbolt\, author Gundrun Ilana Guriel and book designer Lena Laum. They will discuss the gestation of their ‘Lebenslust’ project\, the methodology and the collaboration between the three of them. \nFor those wishing to purchase a copy of the book\, both the author and artist will be available for signings. \nThis event is free and no pre-booking is required.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Unsprung
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nJanno McLaughlin\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nUnsprung\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]8 August – 2 September 2023\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n..Unsprung is a defiant celebration that seeks to offset the grinding force and horrors of conflict… \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″]\n	Page 1\n	Page 2\n	Page 3\n	Page 4\n	Next\n\n[/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]The Unsprung Catalogue is available to be viewed online here.  \nThe title of this exhibition\, Unsprung is a play on ‘spring’ and its connotations of hope\, metaphor\, new life\, and new beginnings. It is a continuation and exploration of my past artistic themes and metaphors including the cocoon\, elephant\, and gorilla. My work always concerns the seeking and creation of safe spaces and is motivated by pleas to look after each other and to protect nature in the great unravelling that seems to be the current state of the world. \nSince my 2021 solo exhibition\, Making Nonsense\, the world has continued its crazy upside-down trajectory. At a time when the world should have been coming together to combat climate change\, turmoil continued with rampant political upheaval\, the effects of Covid 19\, human rights violations and in February 2022\, the invasion of Ukraine by an unhinged Russian dictator. \nMy response then became an all-consuming social project\, the #sunflowerquiltforukraine\, forged in a spirit of solidarity\, love\, and hope. Designed to be wrapped\, draped\, or laid out Christo-style. It can inhabit various settings and means different things in each. It is both a cover for sites of atrocities and a symbol of comfort\, safety and the capacity of people to come together\, replying to the effects of war and destruction with something creative\, hand-made and often deeply personal. In July 2022\, I flew the quilt to London\, and together with Ukrainian refugees\, exhibited it all over the UK\, including 10 Downing Street\, the Albert Hall\, Tate Modern\, Hyde- and St James Park\, on the banks of the Thames and in Sussex farmland. It was used in performances and installations and for recitals. In the Albert Hall our quilt was part of the BBC Proms event\, displayed in a giant prayer-circle with the Ukrainian freedom orchestra. \nWhile it has been uplifting\, hopeful and inspiring\, it has simultaneously been an experience full of sadness\, pain\, conflict and chaos. Unsprung is a response to\, and an escape from the latter\, a document underpinned by the unravelling of the world and myself. My daily exposure to the effects of war have\, despite my best intentions\, bled into my daily life\, as a carer for my son with autism\, and as a wife with an often-absent partner. \nUnsprung is a defiant celebration that seeks to offset the grinding force and horrors of conflict\, though I chose spring as a deliberately ambiguous metaphor. Oscillating between recognizable floral motifs\, abstraction\, simple shapes\, and more complex decorative layering\, vibrant colour dances in gestural strokes. Tangible threads combine with invisible stories of loneliness\, hope lost and found. Paintings are massive or tiny\, stretched and unstretched\, to suggest something innocent yet ‘unsprung’. \nBy 2023 the #sunflowerquiltforukraine installation was over 250 long. We are continuing to sew today with the aim of doubling our 250m installation. \nArtist Statement by Janno McLaughlin and edited by Rose Lang \nPhotographs by Simon Strong[/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]Graduating with a Masters of Contemporary Art from Victoria College of Arts\, Melbourne University in 2018\, Janno has spent most of her time prior\, living between New York and Buenos Aires\, Argentina. Janno’s artworks seek to sow hope\, bravery\, love\, optimism\, resilience\, and whimsy; -anchored by a deliberately ridiculous and unwavering sense of humour. Her approach is unapologetically bold with a preference for blazing colour and mixed media. Janno deploys paint\, thread and richly associative metaphors to portray the most vulnerable\, fragile and endangered in society. In her ten solo exhibitions\, Janno has explored the theme of outsider; the foreigner living in a non-English speaking world; the disenfranchised urban poor; and closer to home and as the mother of a child with autism\, the isolation of disability and need for safe spaces.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Events” tab_id=”1691639761237-627ed375-a8a1″][vc_column_text]Opening Night \nThursday 10 August 2023 \n5pm – 7pm \nfortyfivedownstairs \n  \nArtist Talk \nSaturday 12 August 2023 \n1pm – 3pm \nfortyfivedownstairs[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Everything is Connected
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nSophie Perez\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nEverything is Connected\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]25 July – 5 August 2023\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n…a moment in time of being truly immersed and connected to nature… \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs active_section=”1″ title=”Events”][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Sophie Perez // Artist Statement \nFrom the Aboriginal spiritual and cultural perspective ‘your Country’ or ‘your place’ is pivotal to who you are. This has always been a conflicting idea for Sophie being born and having lived the first half of her life in Britain and now residing in Australia. Sophie’s practise has always explored this concept of place and displacement through paintings. \nAfter travelling to the East MacDonnell ranges last year Sophie began to understand the lure and pull of truly connecting with place. Surrendering to the calm and profound power of the place. \n‘Accepting the Love\, warmth\, solace\, strength\, peace \,protection and respite the land offers’. \nThrough her love of colour and mark making\, the paintings and drawings retell this visceral response of being in Country. Spending time working outdoors and observing the effect colour has on the emotional and physical self\, exploring how this response goes beyond the senses. \nThe scale of the works enables the movement to be transferred through the brush. Painted with the whole body\, inviting the viewer to question what is literally observed and what cannot be observed\, the feeling and soul of a place. Combining imagery with the story that other people will create by travelling this journey. \nThese series of paintings and drawings from night and day are a moment in time of being truly immersed and connected to nature.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Events” tab_id=”1690608795651-6e5fdc0d-7772″][vc_column_text]Saturday 5 August – Panel discussion with Sophie Perez\, Mary Tonkin and Joe Blundell – facilitated by curator Esther Gyorki \nDetails \nTime: 2pm – 3pm \nWhere: fortyfivedownstairs large gallery 45 Flinders Lane Melbourne \nRSVP:  via ticketsearch \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″][vc_column_text]Sophie Perez is a British Born artist who graduated from the Royal College of Art in London in 2003 with an MA in painting. \nIn 2005 Sophie relocated to Melbourne Australia and now resides on the Mornington Peninsula with her family: drawing inspiration from the surroundings and everyday life. \nHaving a strong connection with the land has always been what drives and informs Sophie’s practise. \nSophie says her love of paint\, the physicality and endless possibilities of this medium give her a new language to describe the landscapes she emerges herself in. \nAbsorbing the atmosphere of her surroundings \, Sophie’s landscapes have a narrative\, history and memories that she describes through mark making[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Honne
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nKsenia Shinkarenko\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nHonne\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]27 June – 8 July 2023\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n..a series that captures improvised performances from three contemporary dancers… \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]Ksenia Shinkarenko // Artist Statement \n“Honne ” (Japanese) is a series of works that delves into the intimate connection between our innermost feelings and motion. I was fascinated by the raw beauty of contemporary dance and its ability to give voice to genuine emotions\, thoughts\, and desires that we often keep hidden from others. The series captures improvised performances from three contemporary dancers: Chloe Leong\, Donnie Duncan\, and Aslan Mukhametzhanov. \nThe fluid lines of each piece follow the dancers’ movements\, conveying a sense of harmony with their feelings and the music. My aim was to create a sense of weightlessness and expansion\, allowing viewers to get carried away with the rhythm of the performances. I hope these pieces transport viewers to a moment of pure emotion that is both calming and invigorating.[/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]Ksenia’s lifelong passion for painting began from as early as she can remember\, always wishing to incorporate art into her way of life and inspire others. Now a contemporary artist based in Melbourne\, Australia\, Ksenia captures a sense of tranquility found in the exploration of her surroundings such as nature\, photography and architecture. Her minimalistic style balances a soft fluid palette with refined abstract forms\, built layer by layer. \n“When you immerse yourself in your environment and calm your mind\, you notice subtle details with beauty in essence.” \nHer creative path further developed in Tokyo\, Japan\, where she completed a degree in fashion design. The pure aesthetic and unobtrusive beauty of the country heavily influenced her work\, visible through her selection of raw canvas and organic processes. \n16 years in the fashion industry gave Ksenia the possibility to experiment in a broad spectrum of creative styles and refine her artistic vision. The transition to painting was a natural step that furthered the connection with her inner self allowing expression through her work. \nKsenia’s work aims to open an intimate dialog that transitions the viewer from their daily chaos to a remote restorative space\, inviting them to look within and find the connection to the wider world.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Act of Love
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nShayle Flesser\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nAct of Love\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]13 June – 24 June 2023\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n..for an assured viewer\, ready to embrace correlation and chance… \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]Shayle Flesser // Artist Statement \nAgain my body of work is forming as an installation rather than an exhibition of solitary works. With this series of oversized paintings – I imagine them to be as one whole artwork that is broken into a series of smaller (though still very large) paintings. \nWhen I plan and execute the work I document and lay them together – so the ideas and direction make sense to me. They then begin to tell a story. The works to me are a part of a larger milieu\, that I want the viewer to become ensconced within. \nI have always had a strong connection to literature. The titles for the works will often come from books or papers that I am currently reading. Time then spent researching and gathering ideas which help me form a feeling that I’ll maintain throughout the creation of the whole body of work. Once I have reached a certain point in my own research process – I have an enduring thought or feeling that stays with me while I paint several works. I paint until the urgency of this thought or feeling subsides\, then\, I’ll return to my reading and research process – and with this the cycle continues. \nWhen the works are finished\, I stand the works together and edit them back to a core of paintings that do not deviate from the central feeling I have maintained throughout the painting process. \nThe work is very much a diary of movement through thought and feeling\, and then revisiting of the idea of my purpose. In the past few years\, I have concentrated on paring back\, ensuring that the work is about the work itself\, the simplicity of practicing acts of love and the physicality of being in the studio every day. \nVisually I have intended for this body of work is joyful\, graphic\, strong\, confident. Dots\, stripes and virulent swirls. I want each painting to look like the palette of the work I had painted right before; for an assured viewer\, ready to embrace correlation and chance with shapes and colours\, someone ready to revel in a sense of abundance\, emotion and love.[/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]Shayle Flesser \nEducation\n2004 Post-Graduate Diploma of Visual Art – Griffith University\, Queensland\n1996 Diploma of Psychology and Sociology – City College\, San Francisco\n1992 Bachelor of Visual Art (Painting & Ceramics) University of Southern Queensland\, Toowoomba \nIndividual Exhibitions\n2022- Launch – Emma Street Studio Gallery\n2021 – Emma Street Studio Gallery\n2017- Artworks Upstairs Gallery\n2013 – Platform – Jan Manton Gallery\n2012 –Doggett Street Studio\, Brisbane\n2012 – New Skin Tween driver Regional Gallery\n2008 Immaculate Heart – blkmrkt project space\, Queensland\n2008 – blkmrkt projects\, Southport \nGroup Exhibitions:\n2016 – Jan Manton Gallery\n2014 – Conny Dietzschold Gallery\n2014 – Jan Manton Gallery\n2013 – Group Show – Jan Manton Gallery\n2012 – Los Angeles Affordable Art Fair\n2012 – Toronto Affordable art Fair\n2011 – Prometheus Visual Art Award – All Saints Anglican School\, Merrimac\n2014 – Conny Dietzschold Gallery\n2014 – Jan Manton Gallery\n2013 – Group Show – Jan Manton Gallery\n2010 – Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award – Grafton Regional Gallery\, Grafton\n2010 – Drawings From Where We Are – Horus & Deloris Art Space\, Sydney\n2009 The Fourth Estate – Lorraine Pilgrim Gallery\, Queensland\n2009 Innocence – Lorraine Pilgrim Gallery\, Queensland\n2009 Eat your Heart Out – blkmrkt project space\, Queensland\n2008 Memento Mori – blkmrkt project space\, Queensland (Curated by Wayde Owen)\n2007 Taking Sides – blkmrkt project space\, Queensland\n2007 Put your Love on the Line – blkmrkt project space\, Queensland\n2004 Works for the Blues – Waterfront Place\, Brisbane\n2003 Mapping the Journey – Artworks Contemporary Artspace\, Queensland\n2002 Miniatures – Artworks Contemporary Artspace\, Queensland\n2002 Works for the Blues – Waterfront Place\, Brisbane\n2002 The Trinity Lutheran Art Award\, Trinity Lutheran College\, Queensland (Winner)\n2002 Marymount Art Award – Marymount College\, Queensland\n2002 New Paintings – Artworks Contemporary Artspace\, Queensland\n1993 Multiple Visions (Graduate show) – University of Southern Queensland\, Toowoomba\nAwards and Grants and Residencies:\n2011 – Prometheus Visual Art Award – All Saints Anglican School\, Merrimac\n2010 – Jacaranda Aquisitive Drawing Award – Grafton Regional Gallery\, Grafton\n2009 – Hill End Artists in Residence Program\n2008 – Arts Queensland\, Regional Arts Development Fund (New Work Grant)\n2008 – Arts Queensland\, Regional Arts Development Fund (blkmrkt projects)\n2007 – Prometheus Visual Art Award – All Saints Anglican School\, Merrimac\n2006 – Cite Internationale Des Arts – Paris\, France (AGNSW Studio)\n2008 Arts Queensland\, Regional Arts Development Fund (blkmrkt project space)\n2002 The Westpac Painting Award\, Trinity Lutheran College (Winner) \nCollections\nGold Coast City Art Gallery\, Queensland\nTrinity Lutheran College\, Queensland\nPrivate Collections Australia and New Zealand\, Singapore\, Hong Kong \nBibliography\nGold Coast Bullterin – May 2021\nGina Ciancio – Style Curator 2021\nSam Leach – Catalogue Essay 2012\nClarke\, S. 2008. Immaculate Heart\, The Courier Mail\, Nov 22\, 23.\nHales\, J. 2004. Drawing from Within\, Gold Coast Bulletin\, Oct 16.\nKing\, R. 2008. Portrait of an Art lover\, Gold Coast Bulletin\, Apr 12\, 13.\nMartin\, M St. 2008. A Spiritual Crusade\, Gold Coast Bulletin\, Nov 22\, 23.\nMossip\, B. 2002. Shades of Shayle\, Gold Coast Bulletin\, Aug 14\, 15.\nMossip\, B. 2004. New Kaleidoscope\, Gold Coast Bulletin\, Mar 11\, 12.\nStojceska\, M. 2008. Labour of Love\, The Gold Coast Sun\, Nov 21[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Primavera
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nJohn Mezzini\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nPrimavera\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]30 May – 10 June 2022\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n…these works remind the viewer of meaningful joy\, of expressive human movement and the associated psychological state.. \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]John Mezzini // Artist Statement \nPrimavera showcases a collection of figurative paintings exploring themes of isolation\, physical expression\, and sexuality. Some of these artworks are created without specific references\, while others are inspired by poses crafted with the help of live models. A few pieces take on an abstract style\, incorporating representational elements to establish a deep psychological connection with the subject’s pose and their innermost\, private movements. \nThese paintings aim to capture personal and private states\, reminding viewers of the joy and significance found in expressive human movement and the accompanying psychological experience. \nIn recent years\, I’ve embarked on a journey of rediscovery in my artistic process. Drawing from my previous experience\, I sought to reinvent myself while embracing artistic growth. This led me to engage with performance artists from different parts of the world\, forming creative relationships that influenced the direction of my work. This shift allowed me to explore new themes and approaches. \nPrimavera\, named after the season of spring\, represents both the darkness and coldness as well as the promise of warmth and sunlight. As an artist\, I believe in the importance of describing the world using various stylistic methods\, even if it means venturing beyond my comfort zone and challenging my understanding. I resist the limitations of predefined ideas or singular moments. \nBy experimenting with different compositions\, I manipulate abstract elements such as light and colour to incorporate both representational and nonrepresentational aspects in each piece. This guides the viewer into the essence of the chosen pose and establishes a connection. Through collaboration with subjects\, studio photography\, and drawings\, I bring together the materials and forms\, creating a unified theme. I work primarily with oil paint to capture the tactile quality of skin\, while drawing inspiration from various sources to play with the element of light in my paintings. \nApproaching figure and expression from an abstract perspective\, I aim to present the subject matter in a fresh and unfamiliar visual treatment\, inviting viewers to perceive it in new and compelling ways.[/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]John Mezzini’s CV \nExhibitions \n1994                      Graduates Exhibition group exhibition \n2019                       45 Downstairs solo “E lascia dir le genti” \n2019                       Art Basel Switzerland top 100 artworks “Ad Apicem” \n2019                       Art Box Miami \n2019                      Emerge Brunswick st Gallery – group exhibition \n2021                      45 Downstairs solo “mɔ.nuˈmɛn̪.t̪um” Postponed to January 2022 \n2021                      Primo Red group Exhibition – C&H gallery \n2021                      Here again 45 Downstairs online group exhibition \n2021                      Aliorum portrait Exhibition – POME gallery \n2022                       45 Downstairs solo “Monumentum” \n2022                       RED Exhibition – POME gallery \nMedia \nMay 2019 Sunday Age – Art Sunday promotion solo exhibition “ELascia dir le Genti” \nApril 2019 Art Almanac promotion “ELascia dir le Genti” \nJune 2019 News fox Switzerland Australian Artist Awarded “Ad Apicem” \nNovember 2019 Penthouse Magazine online – Print Feb 2020 “the Artist and the Muse” \nApril 2020 Recorder south Australia “artist roller coaster” \nJanuary 2022 Penthouse Magazine online “the Artist and the Muse” \nApril 2022 Last post Magazine “Artist John Mezzini” \nSocials  \nFacebook: johnmezzinart \nInstagram: jmezz1974[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:The Portable Park
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nGretchen Kaye\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nThe Portable Park\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]7 March – 1 April 2023\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n..parks gift us a priceless portable freedom…. \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=”Artist Statement”][vc_column_text]THE PORTABLE PARK \nI love parks. \nThey are magical places where the sensuous fluidity of nature meets the hard rigidity of the man made. A complimentary dance of opposites attracting. \nEvery park is different\, but also the same. The same magic. \nParks are peaceful but never still. All parks transform\, they are changelings\, both serene and constant\, and dynamic and quickening.\nParks take us journeying about the cycles of our Earth; the lengthening heat of Summer\, and the bold blaze of Autumn\, the cruel of Winter\, and the seductive promise of Spring. \nWhen I paint\, I breathlessly chase their changing palette. Trees catch and shape light. Winding paths dim and brighten. Sunlight dapples and cold skies deepen and cool.\nParks can be places of hushed silence until we allow them to speak to us. Until we halt and listen carefully to the poetry.\nThe sigh of wind. The gust and clatter of leaves like the sassy lifting of a skirt. Birdsong both sweet and raucous. People talking\, dogs barking and in the distance\, children at play. \nParks are deeply mysterious and always generous. They bring out the best in us and they remind us that this best was always within us.\nParks remind us to breathe deeply. They redden our cheeks and arouse our senses. We take these things with us into the park\, and the park awakens them. \nParks gift us a priceless portable freedom.\nWe take this gift home with us\, and I paint this freedom. \nGretchen Kaye | Visual Artist[/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]Painter Gretchen Kaye studied oil painting in Hamburg (International Summer Academy for Art and Design) and in Berlin (Schule für Bildende Kunst und Gestaltung) after completing her Diploma of Visual Arts at CAE with Prudence Flint (painting) and Richard Stringer (sculpture). \nMystery\, narrative and movement are the main themes of her work. \nHer style is described as abstract realism. \nKaye has exhibited in group exhibitions and her works form part of private collections internationally. In 2018\, celebrity interior designer and TV host\, Shaynna Blaze\, selected Kaye’s painting\, ‘The Secret’ to form part of her design for Channel Nine’s real estate reality show\, Buying Blind. \nKaye designed and painted a theatre backdrop for stage show\, Tango’s Violin\, used for performances at major venues in Sydney\, Melbourne and Perth. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Can’t See for Looking
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nOliver Bradley\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nCan’t See for Looking\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]21 february – 4 march 2023\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n..these works seek not to deceive but rather to simultaneously appreciate and critique… \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]The view becomes a window when a fly hits the glass; the next thought is which side is the fly on. \nOverwhelmed by the visual\, Can’t See for Looking interconnects lineal visual language with lateral separations in an accordion of scrutiny. Practicing with an acknowledgment of duality\, these works seek not to deceive but rather to simultaneously appreciate and critique. Paint is explored in both its intangibility as colour and its tactile embodiment\, from its innovations of manufacture to the traditions of its application. \nHistory folds into the present\, symbolism merges with the literal\, and representation remains a painting.[/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]b. 1992 \n2017 Bachelor of fine art (Drawing and Print Media) VCA (Melbourne University)\, Naarm/ Melbourne\n2013 Bachelor of Communication Design\, RMIT University\, Naarm/Melbourne \nOliver Bradley is an early career artist practicing on Wurundjeri country\, Naarm (Melbourne) and Dja Dja Wurrung country. Bradley’s practice makes use of traditional and contemporary materials in an honest examination of forms and perception. His work encourages unconscious critical processes alongside traditional understandings of art. Bradley’s genuine awareness of the viewer is essential in creating compositional conversations. Whether the emphasis is on cerebral or sensory interpretation\, everything included (or not included) is made to be perceived. \nA graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (Bachelor of Fine Arts) in 2019\, Bradley is currently a Paint Maker at Langridge Artist Colours; professionally manufacturing paint for his own practice as well as a vast community of artists in Australia and beyond. His knowledge of the manufacture of artist materials informs his practice conceptually and practically.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:M A D: Mutually Assured Destruction
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nMAGMA/ Mike Green\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nM A D\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]22 November – 3 December 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…MAD aims to strike debate and raise questions\, using comedy as an entry point into highly contentious (and often ridiculous) modern history… \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″]\n	Page 1\n	Page 2\n	Next\n\n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section title=”Description” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″][vc_column_text]Melbourne’s fortyfivedownstairs presents M A D: Mutually Assured Destruction\, a new exhibition by Mike Green opening on 22 November 2022. \nMutually Assured Destruction (M A D) is a doctrine of military strategy and security policy where a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the annihilation of all involved. It is based on the theory of deterrence\, which holds that the threat of using strong weapons against the enemy prevents the enemy’s use of those same weapons. As ridiculous as such a thing sounds\, it is still utilised today as a modern nuclear deterrence. But how did we get to this point? \nMike Green’s latest body of work grapples with the task of comprehending the incomprehensible. In an era marred by narrow political thinking\, social media influence\, and mass consumerism\, madness is mainstream – and more dangerous than ever. \nWhat happens when you multiply insanity with deranged leadership? \nSituations are born like the one painted above – the 2020 capitol attack in Washington: a giant pack of babies storming a sacred American political institution in the name of a criminal. \nMike Green is an established artist with over forty years of exhibition history within leading commercial galleries in Australia and throughout America. Although he is an accomplished watercolourist and well known for his technically adept landscape paintings\, his new body of work is a dramatic departure from the calming works of the artists oeuvre. Politically charged and full of humour\, his new work strikes a balance between real and ridiculous during this pivotal point in human history.\nFor many years Australian politics have not included any big thinking. Short term decisions – including the Iraq war and Australia’s response to global warming and asylum seekers – have cost billions. Meanwhile\, successive governments have plead lack of funds for vital social needs\, whilst ignoring\, for example\, reformation of the taxation system. At the same time\, the international situation has continued to deteriorate following the pandemic\, which brewed a melting pot of counterculture distrust and madness. \nThese paintings are a refuge point for Green to comment on the current situation\, and humour is the code to engage with them. Green creates ridiculous paintings for these ridiculous times. Fictional characters including kewpie dolls\, toy soldiers\, and Mexican wrestlers become protagonists in modern historical contexts. The figures serve as a gateway to question our shortcomings and how absurd it all really is. According to Green\, “… trying to paint this madness out of my head using irony and metaphor\, with some admitted pleasure.” \nOpening at fortyfivedownstairs on November 22nd\, let the madness begin. \nPresented by fortyfivedownstairs and Magma Galleries. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Programming” tab_id=”1668155882775-4b634a2e-0ed5″][vc_column_text]Opening Night: Tuesday 22nd of November from 6pm – 8pm \nYou are warmly invited to join us in celebrating the opening of ‘M A D: Mutually Assured Destruction’ by Mike Green. \nArtist Talk with Mike Green: Saturday 26th of November 2-3pm \nPlease join Mike Green for a free event where the public can gain insight into his impactful and inspired work.\nRSVP to this free event by contacting communications@fortyfivedownstairs.com [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/m-a-d/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:gallery
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220125
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220206
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SUMMARY:Things Fall Apart
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nMike Lutz\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nThings Fall Apart\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]25 January – 5 February 2022\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 11am to 5pm\,\nSaturday 11am to 3pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]\nan affirmation of hope that we have become stronger for having walked through the fire. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Mike Lutz\, Resting Between Screams (After Munch\, Before Tea)\, 2020\, oil on linen\, 46 x 46cm \nMike Lutz\, Looking for Icarus\, 2019\, oil on canvas\, 97 x 168cm \nMike Lutz\, [Title yet to be disclosed]\, 2020\, oil on linen\, 102 x 102cm \nMike Lutz\, This is Going to be Wonderful\, 2021\, oil on linen\, 92 x 72cm \nMike Lutz\, Untitled\, 2020\, oil on linen\, 107 x 107cm \n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933f861-ccdb” title=”Description”][vc_column_text]The works in Things Fall Apart rise out of the disquieting period from which we are emerging.  Each painting considers an aspect of confinement and release. \nRanging in focus from individual emotions through strained relationships\, to the interaction with the environments we inhabit\, the motifs are diverse\, yet hold together through the common thread of shared experience. \nThe exhibition highlights the stresses and challenges faced by the individual and how we can become consumed by our own immediate concerns.  We are reminded that its not always about us and that we can become full of our own importance both as individuals and as a species.  There is a recognition that having to choose between ourselves as individuals and the society we live in is an illusion.  We are both and it cannot be otherwise. \nPainting in a nominally figurative realist mode\, Mike’s expressive use of paint is central to the mood of the exhibition. \nNotwithstanding the isolation and withdrawal\, there is a recognition that life goes on and though drawing on the dark emotions that trying times can produce\, there is an affirmation of hope that we have become stronger for having walked through the fire. \nThis is Mike’s first solo show.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933f861-ccdb”][vc_column_text]Mike Lutz \nHailing from the UK\, Mike has lived in Melbourne since 2006 and has a Graduate Certificate in Visual Art from the Victorian College of the Arts and a Masters in Fine Art from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. \nMike’s practice is driven by a disrupted figuration that is centred on the impact that painting has on both the painter and the viewer.  By submitting to an intuitive approach to mark making\, his work conveys a mood of disquiet and psychological intensity. \nWorking primarily in oil\, he uses a painterly approach to surface\, colour\, tonality and scale to derive unsettling and ambiguous imagery. \nContrasting the rational production of realist imagery with expressive mark-making\, the subconscious\, irrationality and chance Mike leaves us with a disrupted view of the world embedded in the material and temporal qualities of the paint. \n  \nEducation \nMaster of Fine Art – Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (2021) \nGraduate Certificate in Visual Art – Victorian College of the Arts\, Melbourne University (2018) \n  \nSolo Exhibitions \n2022 Things Fall Apart\, fortyfivedownstairs\, Melbourne \n  \nGroup Exhibitions \n2021 ALLone\, Satellite Projects\, Melbourne \n2021 MFA Graduate Show\, RMIT \n2019 Fifty Squared\, Brunswick Street Gallery\, Fitzroy \n2018 Small\, Forty-five Downstairs\, Melbourne \n2018 Unplugged\, GCVA Graduate Show VCA Art Space Melbourne \n2017 VCA short course students’ exhibition Besser Space\, Collingwood[/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:20210525
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SUMMARY:Retreat
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nJames Grant\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nRetreat\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]25 May – 19 June 2021\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 11am to 5pm\,\nSaturday 11am to 3pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]\n…local landscapes and private domestic environments which have become increasingly important spaces of both refuge and of tension over the last year. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Yellow Brick Front Garden\, 2020\, oil and acrylic on canvas\, 100cm x 75cm. SOLD \nBeckoning Cats\, 2020\, oil and acrylic on canvas\, 120cm x 101cm\, $1250 (framed) \nStill life with Vase\, 2020\, oil and acrylic on canvas\, 90cm x 77cm. SOLD \nBack of Smith Street Shop #2\, 2021\, oil and acrylic on canvas\, 90cm x 120cm\, $1\,500 (framed)  \nLounge Room\, 2020\, oil and acrylic on canvas\, 87cm x 120.5cm\, $950 (framed)  \nWilliamstown Front Yard\, 2020\, oil and acrylic on canvas\, 122cm x 104cm. SOLD \nSmith Street Shop\, 2020\, oil and acrylic on canvas\, 130cm x 94cm\, $1500 (framed) \nFitzroy Houses\, 2020\, oil on canvas\, 120 x 110 cm. SOLD \nZali (shell)\, 2021\, oil and acrylic on canvas\, 104cm x 130cm\, $1\,800 (framed) \nLounge Room (small)\, 2020\, oil and acrylic on canvas\, 85cm x 100cm\, $700 (framed) \nEast Melbourne\, 2021\, oil and acrylic on canvas\, 150 x 131 cm. SOLD \nLiv's Apartment\, 2021\, oil and acrylic on canvas\, 150 x 131 cm. SOLD \n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-09330f8a-9bed” title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Retreat by James Grant explores local landscapes and private domestic environments which have become increasingly important spaces of both refuge and of tension over the last year. The exhibition draws on objects which accumulate in these spaces\, and which we use to build identity\, connection\, and happiness.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-09330f8a-9bed”][vc_column_text]James Grant grew up travelling with his family in several areas across northern and central Australia\, including the Kimberly and Arnhem Land whilst living in Alice Springs and Darwin. On his return to Melbourne\, he commenced a Bachelor of Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts. After graduating in 2016\, Grant spent several years travelling and working. \nAs for many other artists\, the 2020 lockdown forced a reset of his art practice. In this recent collection of work\, Grant has been drawn to the vibrancy and beauty of his Melbourne locale\, and its striking contrast to the rugged\, regional landscapes he grew up with. \nEducation\nBachelor of Fine Arts (Painting)\, Victorian College of the Arts – University of Melbourne (2014 – 2016) \nExhibitions\n2019 – ‘Portraits between Alice Springs and Darwin’ – Red Gallery (September 2019)\n2019 – ‘Portraits between Alice Springs and Darwin’ – Rubicon ARI (June 2019)\n2017 – Small painting exhibition Brunswick St Street Gallery (December 2017)\n2016 – Victoria College of the Arts Graduation Show (November 2016)[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Exhibition List” tab_id=”1622431168694-1bb1f4ab-9959″][vc_column_text]CLICK HERE for the Retreat price list.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/retreat/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:gallery
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210413
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SUMMARY:A Pilgrim's Progress
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nNel ten Wolde\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nA Pilgrim’s Progress\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]13 – 24 April 2021\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 11am to 5pm\,\nSaturday 11am to 3pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]\n…fascinated with the mysterious existence of abandoned clothes… \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Triangle\, oil on canvas\, 112 x 112 cm $3000 \nNel ten Wolde\, Ropas Abandonadas III iPad\, 50 x 50 cm \nNel ten Wolde\, Ropas abandonadas I\, 91 x 122 cm \nNel ten Wolde\, Ropas Abandonadas I iPad\, 50 x 50 cm \nIncidence of Light\, oil on canvas 57 x 102 cm\, $3500 \nFree Red Transformed\, oil on canvas 102 x 122 cm $5400 \nFree Take Off\, oil on canvas 102 x 122 cm $5400 \nI Am Free\, oil on canvas 102 x 122 cm $5600 \nThe Free Dance\, oil on canvas\, 102 x 152cm $5600 \n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933c705-9813″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]We often come across abandoned clothes\, lost or discarded by their owners. These material items signal an absence from their former purpose\, assuming their own life and existence in the environment where they are left behind. The reasons for their abandonment are vast\, but meaningful. They can signify an array of meanings\, from loss\, absence\, relationships\, the past and presence. The act of discarding clothes sends a message and their existence affects both the spaces and people that inhabit them. \nAbandonment can only be understood when exploring the material existence of a garment and its relationship with the people\, objects or places it interacts with. There is a history\, a present and a future\, one that mysteriously eludes us as we walk by them. On the many travels artist Nel ten Wolde has undertaken in past years\, she has become fascinated with the mysterious existence of abandoned clothes she comes across on her journey. Her curiosity for their former life\, the reason for their abandonment and the way in which they become immersed in the spaces they come to inherit. \nA Pilgrim’s Progress\, a series of paintings and digital collage works\, is Nel’s expression of the discarded and lost clothes that cross her path on the pilgrimage trails she has covered throughout Europe\, especially Spain. There is a connection between the long and often desolate miles the artist covers on foot\, with the deserted clothing strewn across fences\, in river beds\, along the path or roadside she is travelling.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933c705-9813″][vc_column_text]\nOriginating from the Netherlands\, Nel ten Wolde emigrated to Australia in 1985. Since this move\, Nel has enjoyed the possibilities of travelling internationally\, particularly throughout Europe\, seeking inspiration from different countries & cultures. She has been invited multiple times to take part as an artist in residence\, working alongside and collaborating with other artists worldwide. Whilst in Melbourne\, her work is focused on abstract landscape oil paintings in varied sizes. The greatest source of inspiration for her work\, has always been nature\, evoking emotions of freedom\, beauty & wonder.  \nNel has exhibited extensively in Australia\, Europe and the Middle East since the 1980s. She has been a finalist in the Broken Hill Art Prize\, Nillumbik Art Prize and Alice Art Prize\, and had participated in numerous residencies in Australia and Europe.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”A Pilgrim’s Progress” tab_id=”1615943883436-353c1e47-28e1″][vc_column_text]For the last 11 years I have been walking on different Pilgrim routes in Spain and Italy and covered about 4\,500 km. Walking through landscapes and villages\, listening to the progress of my own steps taken over stones or mud\, through riverbeds or over a beach. It is a very meditative experience. \nWhile walking one gets to see a lot of detail and I had time to take it all in. \nI have taken a lot of photos that I can use as reference and others that I use to transform on my iPad. \nWhile walking\, one often comes across abandoned clothes\, lost or discarded by their owners. These material items signal an absence from their former purpose\, assuming their own life and existence in the environment where they are left behind. The reasons for their abandonment are vast\, but meaningful. They can signify an array of meanings\, from loss\, absence\, relationships\, the past and presence. The act of discarding clothes sends a message and their existence affects both the spaces and people that inhabit them. \nAbandonment can only be understood when exploring the material existence of a garment and its relationship with the people\, objects or places it interacts with. There is a history\, a present and a future\, one that mysteriously eludes us as we walk by them. On the many travels I have undertaken during the past years\, I’ve become fascinated with the mysterious existence of abandoned clothes I come across on my journey. My curiosity for their former life\, the reason for their abandonment and the way in which they become immersed in the spaces they come to inherit. \nThe series Ropas Abandonadas is my expression of the discarded and lost clothes that cross my path on the pilgrimage trails I have covered throughout Europe\, especially Spain. There is a connection between the long and often desolate miles I cover on foot\, with the deserted clothing strewn across fences\, in riverbeds\, along the path or roadside I am travelling. \nMy work is composed using multiple layers of materials and methods. The process begins with taking photographs of the Ropas Abandonadas\, along my travels. I put several of these photos together with landscape photos. In this way I recreate on paper\, the original context of the abandoned clothes\, bringing together the material in relation to the natural environment. My aim is to create a continuation from the original context in which I found them and translating that through each stage of the creative process. I adapt the juxtaposed photographs using the program Procreate\, to create additional depth to the images and finish by detailing them through painting and drawing. This gives them the appearance of being submerged\, in the same way they are submerged by different layers of the elements in their original environment. Layering these creative stages evokes the mystery and message behind the past and present life of the abandoned clothing. \n– Nel ten Wolde\, 2021[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/a-pilgrims-progress/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:gallery
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210119
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SUMMARY:Stiff Upper Lip
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nCally Lotz\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nStiff Upper Lip\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]19 – 30 January 2021\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 11am to 5pm\,\nSaturday 11am to 3pm\,\n26 January: 11am to 3pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]\n…a psychological safe space for what otherwise cannot be said. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Empty\, 2019\, oil on linen\, 41 x 31 cm\, SOLD. Photo: Tim Gresham \nBagged\, 2019\, oil on linen\, 41 x 31 cm\, $950. Photo: Tim Gresham \nBound and Boxed\, 2019\, oil on linen\, 41 x 31 cm\, SOLD. Photo: Tim Gresham \nParcelled\, 2019\, oil on linen\, 112 x 76 cm\, $3700. Photo: Tim Gresham \nBottled\, 2020\, oil on linen\, 112 x 76 cm\, $3700. Photo: Tim Gresham \nLoose\, 2020\, oil on linen\, 112 x 76 cm\, SOLD. Photo: Tim Gresham \nWhat if\, 2020\, oil on linen\, 61 x 51 cm\, $2400. Photo: Tim Gresham \nUnravelling\, 2020\, oil on linen\, 61 x 51 cm\, $2400. Photo: Tim Gresham \nCally Lotz\, Through a Glass Darkly\, 2020\, oil on linen\, 41 x 31 cm\, SOLD \nCally Lotz\, Boxed\, 2020\, oil on linen\, 61 x 51 cm\, SOLD \nCally Lotz\, Bucket\, 2019\, oil on linen\, 41 x 31 cm\, $950 \nCally Lotz\, Hope\, 2020\, oil on linen\, 41 x 31 cm\, SOLD \nCally Lotz\, install \nCally Lotz\, install \nCally Lotz\, install \nCally Lotz\, install \nCally Lotz\, install \nCally Lotz\, install \nCally Lotz\, install \n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933d3d3-6685″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Stiff Upper Lip is an analytical still life painting project that explores complex psychological states such as containment\, austerity and isolation. Metaphorical imagery like empty buckets\, plastic bottles and parcels are used to suggest interiority where for artist Cally Lotz\, the act of painting becomes a psychological safe space for what otherwise cannot be said. \nBy depicting mundane objects Lotz aims to maintain a detached and remote stance from any given narrative. Instead she allows her attention to dwell on the formal and material aspects of representational painting. The motifs exist only as empty signifiers enabling a deeper and more meaningful investigation into the issue of repression. \nLotz has become aware that still life painting can create a strange presence between what we call reality and what psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan calls ‘the real’. Ordinary objects can be shaped into profound statements on containment and trauma.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933d3d3-6685″][vc_column_text]Cally Lotz is a Melbourne based artist who studied an MFA at RMIT\, and a BVA at The University of South Africa (UNISA). Her practice incorporates highly analytical still life painting where she explores complex psychological states such as containment\, austerity and isolation. Metaphorical imagery like empty buckets\, plastic bottles and parcels are used to suggest interiority where for Lotz\, the act of painting becomes a psychological safe space for what otherwise cannot be said. Her work has been exhibited in South Africa\, Germany\, India and Australia. Recent exhibitions include RMIT Intersect LIGHTSCAPES\, on show until February 2020. Lotz has recently been awarded a studio residency at Sandbox Studios Melbourne 2019 – 2020. She has been the recipient of various other residencies including St Vincent’s Melbourne 2014-1015 and AIR Vallauris France 2017. Her work is held in public collections including Sasol and UNISA in South Africa\, and St Vincent’s in Melbourne. Images and texts can be found at www.callylotzartist.com.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/stiff-upper-lip/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs online gallery\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:gallery
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190827
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SUMMARY:Shop Talk
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nAlex Zubryn\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nShop Talk\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]27 August – 7 September 2019\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 11am to 5pm\,\nSaturday 11am to 3pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]\n….ways to narrate suburban culture\, ethnicity and the process of gentrification. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Alex Zubryn\, Shop Talk\, 2017\, oil on linen\, 2520 x 3900mm \nAlex Zubryn\, Shop Talk 4\, 2015\, graphite on paper\, 42 x 59cm \nAlex Zubryn\, Shop Talk 7\, 2015\, graphite on paper\, 42 x 59cm \nAlex Zubryn\, Shop Talk 2\, 2015\, graphite on paper\, 42 x 59cm \nAlex Zubryn\, Shop Talk 3\, 2015\, graphite on paper\, 42 x 59cm \n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-09335cd1-ea60″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Shop Talk is a unique installation of drawings and painting focusing on process and repetition\, resulting in a large-scale painting filling an entire gallery wall. \nAlex Zubryn’s practice articulates meaning about community life and suburbia\, specifically through visually recording the streets in relation to still life/objects such as commercial products\, decorative artifacts\, edible objects and ephemera. \nIn recent times\, recognisable Melbourne urban locales have been significantly reconstructed. Vibrant individual shops containing objects representing diverse cultures are under threat from gentrification. Shop Talk explores artefacts from just such a shop. Viewed from the street\, the entire double fronted windows are filled with shelving structures with a random display of objects ranging from garden dwarfs to religious effigies. Decorative items stacked\, wrapped and facing various directions are relic-like forms waiting for interpretation. \nThe artist’s personal background and associations propelled him to rethink the focus for selected objects and to create different narratives about them. Looking through the dusty windowpane gives a sense of peering into old windows of an apartment block. Each decorative item has an individual temperament and appears as a character within its particular frame. The still life/objects and the expressive materiality of the mediums investigated sheds light on ways to narrate suburban culture\, ethnicity and the process of gentrification.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-09335cd1-ea60″][vc_column_text]After completing his degree at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1985\, Alex Zubryn was awarded a Study Grant to Europe and then exhibited in ‘A New Generation Exhibition’\, at the NGA\, Canberra. In 1998 he completed his Masters of Fine Arts at the VCA after which he received an Australia Council studio in Rome. Alex is currently an Associate Lecturer at RMIT in the School of Design and is completing a PhD in Fine Art at RMIT’s School of Art. \nThe following are some exhibitions activities in which he has participated: 1999 Deacons Graham and James Art Prize at the Ian Potter Museum Melbourne\, the Paris Art Fair in France in 2002\, ‘Other Cities’ at the Latrobe Regional Gallery in 2004\, and ‘Rome Academici’ in 2005 at the Monash University Faculty Gallery and at the British School in Rome. In 2008 he completed a commissioned painting for the MCC at the Melbourne Cricket Ground where it is currently on display. He exhibited in 2012 at the Italian Institute of culture in Melbourne and in 2013 his artwork was surveyed at the Deakin University Art Gallery\, Melbourne. In 2014 Alex exhibited in the John Leslie Art Prize at the Gippsland Art Gallery in Sale and when participating in the Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize 2016 was awarded the “People’s Choice Award”.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/daily-homewares/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:gallery
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190827
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SUMMARY:Since You’ve Been Gone
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nPenelope Metcalf\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nSince You’ve Been Gone\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]27 August – 7 September 2019\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 11am to 5pm\,\nSaturday 11am to 3pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]\nIt won’t always be like this. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Penelope Metcalf\, Square Balwyn\, 2018\, oil on canvas\, 71 x 71 cm \nPenelope Metcalf\, Home Time\, 2019\, oil on canvas\, 102 x 72 cm \nPenelope Metcalf\, Park Life\, 2018\, oil on canvas\, 92 x 102 cm \nPenelope Metcalf\, Over the Hill\, 2019\, oil on canvas\, 92 x 92cm \nPenelope Metcalf\, Since You've Been Gone #1\, 2018\, oil on canvas\, 72 x 92 cm \n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933ae74-3296″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Big old houses sit beneath tall trees\, on large blocks\, on wide streets\, under big skies. \nThis new suite of paintings by Penelope Metcalf is based in and around the eastern suburbs of Melbourne as it is now. \nIt won’t always be like this. \nFor complete catalogue and prices\, visit penelopemetcalf.com.au[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933ae74-3296″][vc_column_text]This is Penelope Metcalf ’s fifteenth solo exhibition. \nShe graduated with a MVA in Fine Art from the VCA in 1998. \nShe exhibits regularly in Melbourne and Sydney. \nCV \npenelopemetcalf.com.au[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190716
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190811
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SUMMARY:After the Archive: Park Life
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nAmanda Johnson\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]After the Archive: Park Life[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]16 July – 10 August 2019\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 11am to 5pm\,\nSaturday 11am to 3pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]\n…evoke the ecological impacts of colonisation upon the literal and cultural landscapes of the present. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Supported Exotic: Transplanted Queensland Bottle Tree\, Royal Botanic Gardens\, Cranbourne\, 2015\, synthetic polymer and oil on canvas\, 1100 x 1550 mm \nGone to Seed: Introduced green (Tasmanian South Cape 1792)\, 2015\, synthetic polymer and oil on canvas\, 1100 x 1550 mm \nManfern: First Contact (after Jean Piron\, Recherche Bay\, Tasmania\, 1792)\, 2017\, synthetic polymer and oil on canvas\, 1100 x 1550 mm \nSupported Exotic: Dragon Tree 2\, 2018\, synthetic polymer and oil on canvas\, 1100 x 1100 mm  \nAfter Orchids: Extinction Garden\, 2015\, synthetic polymer and oil on canvas\, 400 x 400 mm  \n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-09336fc7-2d38″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Amanda Johnson’s paintings question the fate of the public garden in a context of global warming. How has our physical and cultural encounter with the public garden changed? Has the picturesque garden subject (as landscape vista\, folly\, or symbol of civic confidence) been relegated to expressions of cultural nostalgia as environmental problems take their toll? \nParks and gardens were quickly established in Australian colonies to celebrate settlement\, the rise of botanical scientific collections and the global exchange of exotic plant species and ready cultivars. Colonial documentors of flora and fauna assumed that their subjects would endure in perpetuity; naturalists\, artists and voyagers were also enamoured of glimpses of what they perceived to be ‘gentlemen’s parks’\, mistakenly believing tracts of land were devoid of Indigenous inhabitants. \nDrawing on field trips to urban and regional botanic gardens and national parks\, these paintings offer correctives to these views\, re-thinking early botanical empire building\, or colonisation by seed. They also evoke the ecological impacts of colonisation upon the literal and cultural landscapes of the present. \nThe paintings on canvas are generally large scale and mimic archival paper documents. They are replete with stains\, watermarks and foxing mould copied from deteriorated botanical documentations. As painterly parodies of early colonial botanical documentations\, they perhaps suggest the melancholy possibility of last contact. \nThe exhibition’s explorations\, taken together\, invite questions as to the landscape subjects of the future. What models of ‘park life’ will be possible going forward?[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-09336fc7-2d38″][vc_column_text]Amanda Johnson is a painter and writer who has lived in Melbourne and on the Bellarine. Her artwork has been shown in Australia and overseas. Her work has been represented in the 2019 Hadley’s Art Prize\, the 2018 Bruny Prize and the 2016 Bruny Prize. Paintings have also been shown in the Geelong Contemporary Art Prize (2012) and the Fletcher Jones Prize (2006). She has a Masters in painting from Victorian College of the Arts (1994-5). Since graduating\, she has been the recipient of Asialink and Arthur Boyd Bundanon residencies for painting. A previous solo show\, Friable:The Lost Garden\, was held at Geelong Gallery in late 2015 as part of the gallery’s regional artists program. In 2011\, she worked with artist Michele Burder to create the exhibition Understorey: Botanic Gardens\, Past\, Present\, Future – from Civic Vision to Climate Change (Geelong Gallery). The exhibition toured to regional Victoria in 2011. \nAmanda Johnson’s practice is interdisciplinary; she publishes poetry and prose as A. Frances Johnson. Her writing often overlaps postcolonial ecocritical themes found in her art. Her 2007 novel Eugene’s Falls (Arcadia) retraced the so-called ‘wilderness’ journeys of colonial painter Eugene von Guerard across Taungurong country in The Great Divide. Amanda currently works as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist Talk Saturday 3 August” tab_id=”1562122494874-95262d30-3c79″][vc_column_text]\n\nJoin us for two artist talks from exhibiting artists Josh Dykgraaf and Amanda Johnson.\n\n\n \n\n\nSaturday 3 August\, 1pm\n\n\nfortyfivedownstairs\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\n\n\nRefreshments provided\n\n\nFREE EVENT\, ALL WELCOME\n\n\n \n\n\nFirst up\, Josh Dykgraaf will speak about his exhibition TERRAFORM\, his artistic process\, and the literal and artistic exploration that led to the exhibition.\n\n\n \n\n\nAfter a short break\, Amanda Johnson will be in conversation with art historian Associate Professor Alison Inglis (the University of Melbourne) about her exhibition After the Archive: Park Life.\n\n\nJoin the Facebook event here.\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/after-the-archive-park-life/
LOCATION:Victoria
CATEGORIES:gallery
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190604
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190616
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SUMMARY:E lascia dir le genti
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nJohn Mezzini\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nE lascia dir le genti\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]4 – 15 June 2019\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 11am to 5pm\,\nSaturday 11am to 3pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]\n…inhibitions are dropped\, and subjects are exposed in their most raw and vulnerable state… \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]John Mezzini\, The Sofa \nJohn Mezzini\, Bad Day Pint \nJohn Mezzini\, The Barman \nJohn Mezzini\, Not Today \n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef12df-2ec5″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]John Mezzini’s series of oil paintings\, E lascia dir le genti\, captures fragments of social interaction.  The moment when inhibitions are dropped\, and the subjects are exposed in their most raw and vulnerable state where we are confronted by the beauty of the immediate. Mezzini reminds the viewer of meaningful personal connections indelibly imprinted and active in the formulation of who we see ourselves to be. \nAn engineer by trade\, Mezzini has recently returned to painting after studying at the North Adelaide School of Arts over twenty years ago. Mezzini has dabbled in the arts in the intervening years\, notably as a musician. His interest in painting never really subsided\, but neither did he fully commit himself to it. After encouragement from friends and a renewed enjoyment of the process\, Mezzini began again. \nInitially working within his previous area of experience\, abstraction\, Mezzini began to re-educate himself\, discovering new interests in the impressionist period and modern Russian artists. This changed his focus\, adapting the principles of the material to further the development of his own practice. \nMezzini believes the interpretation of his artwork is the responsibility of the viewer. His process is to encourage\, not dictate. Closing in on the subjects in the compositions allows Mezzini to manipulate the refractive elements of light\, with the intention of allowing the viewer to interpret the gestures and expressions of his central figures. Mezzini utilises found imagery\, personal photos and drawings as starting points for his paintings\, linking them to a coherent theme. Introducing elements of figurative and expressionist styles\, with an academic grounding in abstraction\, has given this series a raw and unscripted feel\, creating new and unfamiliar visual treatments of the subject matter. \nE lascia dir le genti is John Mezzini’s first solo exhibition\, and runs at fortyfivedownstairs from 4 – 15 June 2019.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/e-lascia-dir-le-genti/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:gallery
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190604
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190616
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SUMMARY:Complex Life
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nCatherine Hearse & Glenn Murray\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nComplex Life\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]4 – 15 June 2019\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 11am to 5pm\,\nSaturday 11am to 3pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]\nWe are united by our interdependence and similarities… \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Catherine Hearse\, Community\, 2019\, crochet\, cotton\, wooden beads\, 2500 x 3500 x 4000mm \nCatherine Hearse\, installation image \nCatherine Hearse\, Threads of Communication (detail)\, 2017\, stitched collage\, paper\, thread\, 310 x 200mm \nCatherine Hearse\, Community (detail)\, 2019\, crochet\, cotton\, wooden beads\, 2000 x 300mm \nCatherine Hearse\, Eating the sea\, 2017\, mixed media\, 240 x 180mm \nGlenn Murray\, Full Moon and Wall\, 2019\, mixed media\, 2300 x 960 x 350 mm \nGlenn Murray\, Full Moon Over the Wall\, 2017\, mixed media\, 1300 x 620 x 240 mm \nGlenn Murray\, The Symbiotic Relationship Between an Ikea Stool and the Full Moon\, 2017\, mixed media\, 1340 x 630 x 530mm. Image: Matthew Stanton \nGlenn Murray\, Full Moon Over the Wall\, 2017\, mixed media\, 1300 x 620 x 240 mm. Image: Matthew Stanton \n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef234b-368b” title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Complex Life brings together the work of two friends and artists\, Catherine Hearse and Glenn Murray. Both artists use their artistic processes to explore the idea of interdependence and their positions in the world\, in a physical\, environmental and emotional sense. \nCatherine Hearse \nThrough my work I attempt to evoke a sense of oneness with the natural world\, something that is lost in urban life wherein undomesticated animals are seen as invaders and we rarely touch other life forms except to eat them. My works share concerns about our relationship with the biosphere\, whether destructive\, enthralled or compassionate. We are united by our interdependence and similarities\, so many of the pieces are human/plant or human/animal composites. \nGlenn Murray \nMy primary starting point is that of interdependence. A place where whether we realise it\, or not everything\, is interconnected and no one element can operate in isolation. It is like a web of connectivity. \nAs humans it is a constant balancing act to maintain our position and we are constantly prone to over-reach. In my work I try to make sense of my own balance and connectivity with the physical world and with the emotions that accompany this process.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist Biographies” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef234b-368b”][vc_column_text]Catherine Hearse \nCatherine Hearse is known for her exquisite watercolours and for her extraordinary small sculptures that explore what it is to be a woman\, a plant\, a creature of the sea – or all three at once.  The fine crochet and wood sculptures she creates are personages of astonishing delicacy of expression. \nCatherine Hearse’s work is influenced by a great many things.  Of great importance are textiles.  Hearse has studied the Suzani fabric from Uzbekistan\, old European embroideries from the Victoria and Albert Museum\, London\, and chintz from India. \nCatherine Hearse CV \n  \nGlenn Murray \nGlen Murray’s work is increasingly the product of trying explore and understand his relationships to the world around him. This is done primarily using construction\, addition and subtraction\, with mainly discarded materials as they come loaded with history and associations which can be the catalyst for their new life. \nTimber has become his material of choice due to its organic qualities that he found lacking in metal as a medium. Interest in so called ‘outsider’ art and Buddhist philosophy inspires Murray to first explore thoughts and simple relationships. \nGlenn Murray CV[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190521
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SUMMARY:The Power of Pattern
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nGavin Brown\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nThe Power of Pattern\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]21 May – 1 June 2019\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 11am to 5pm\,\nSaturday 11am to 3pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]\n..the surreal\, the unimaginable and the unexpected… \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Street Dog 3\, oil on canvas\, 91 x 122cm \nMarket Girl 4\, oil on canvas\, 122 x 91 cm \n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f066″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Gavin Brown’s current work recalls the sights\, flavours and moods of his recent explorations of Asia.  Using a multimedia approach to capture the visual sensations of his discoveries\, Gavin has been able to present a body of new work that transports the viewer beyond that of the typical travellers’ experience. The rich and exotic use of colour on colour\, texture on texture and juxtaposition of subject matter convey a literal interpretation of the artist’s busy mind\, unloaded onto the canvas. This exhibition represents a coming together of Gavin’s need to explore the surreal\, the unimaginable and the unexpected and present it in beautiful\, mystical and evocative snapshots of his imaginings.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f066″][vc_column_text]With over 25 solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally\, Gavin Brown’s work is held in collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum (London)\, The Powerhouse (Sydney)\, and the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne). \nBrown has recently been featured in a number of national and international publications including The Cool Hunter\, The Design Files\, UK’s Idol Magazine and Romanian magazine LUXERY.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/power-of-pattern/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181023
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181104
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SUMMARY:The Far North
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nAllan Wolf-Tasker\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nThe Far North\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]23 October – 3 November 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 The beauty of these pieces … is in the dramatism of the finished works … The leap of faith that they ask you to take in your own assessment and interpretation. \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-b0b3368e-b9ef0ab6-742c” title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Australian artist\, painter Allan Wolf-Tasker has spent a lifetime studying the Australian landscape. From aerial perspectives along the Great Ocean Road to a drought ridden Victorian countryside; he has always managed to find an optimistic view of Australia’s diverse terrain. \nIn this most recent exhibition; Allan leaves his studio in Daylesford for the vastly different Far North of Australia\, an area he has visited with his wife Alla since the 1970s but never before captured on his canvas. The opportunity to “fully exploit the colour palette” proved too tempting…. \n“In a sense the subject matter is secondary to the finished effect of these works. I spend considerable time observing\, recording and then drafting each image onto the canvas. The aerial perspective from previous exhibitions still plays a major role at times. From that point on though\, it is all about the painting. Subject matter will be moved\, recalibrated\, distorted or even permitted to morph into something else. Representation begins to take a back seat and fun\, optimism and determination in the creative process leap to the fore. The beauty of these pieces therefore\, if you agree\, is in the dramatism of the finished works …. The leap of faith that they ask you to take in your own assessment and interpretation.” \nCollectors familiar with his past exhibitions will recognise an evolution in Wolf-Tasker’s painting processes and may be captivated by the increased vigour and brushwork in these latest works. \nThe Far North\, an exhibition of works on canvas and paper by Allan Wolf-Tasker \nwww.allanwolftasker.com.au[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef0ab6-742c”][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]
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LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:gallery
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181021
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SUMMARY:Manhattan Dreaming
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nMarco Luccio\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nManhattan Dreaming\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]25 September – 20 October 2018\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 11am to 5pm\,\nSaturday 12pm to 4pm\nGrand Final Holiday 12pm to 4pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]\nManhattan Dreaming reveals an artist who\, having achieved an enviable level of intimacy with his metropolitan muse\, is now able to capture her lines\, angles\, moods and movement with a spontaneity bordering on instinct. \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-b0b3368e-b9ef8ab0-0745″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Award-winning artist Marco Luccio’s latest exhibition\, Manhattan Dreaming\, will open at Melbourne’s fortyfivedownstairs on the 25th of September. An astounding collection of paintings and drypoints\, Manhattan Dreaming reveals an artist who\, having achieved an enviable level of intimacy with his metropolitan muse\, is now able to capture her lines\, angles\, moods and movement with a spontaneity bordering on instinct. \nLuccio is constantly chasing and challenging his own boundaries\, and there can be no doubt that exciting new ground has been broken with Manhattan Dreaming. The paintings in this collection—some of which span 6 feet in height or width—were all painted in situ\, often amid heavy pedestrian traffic (and interest)\, in single sessions stretching up to seven hours. Scenes commenced in daylight are layered over to depict the night-time hours in which they were completed. The constantly changing features of scenes—both human and non—are captured in evocative hazes that suggest both their arrival and departure. The energy that went into producing these works is immediately palpable: they are\, in a very real sense\, exhilarating to view. \nComplementing the canvas-grounded hustle and bustle are Luccio’s drypoints\, which\, eschewing the monumental bridges and buildings so recognisably Manhattan\, have taken on the no less iconic scene of the New York City diner. Copper plates and tools in hand\, these pieces were also created in situ by Luccio and delightfully capture the unabashed eccentricity and character of some of the city’s most legendary haunts. \nLong-term followers of Marco Luccio’s work will find their appreciation of his expertise and artistry taken to a new level\, while first-time viewers will have the fortune of being introduced to an artist who continues to bravely explore and expand\, creating beautifully striking works of art in the process. \nImages: photographed by Sina Basila \nmarcoluccio.com.au \nclick here to watch a 3min film of Luccio painting in New York[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist Bio” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9ef8ab0-0745″][vc_column_text]Marco Luccio is represented in over 40 public and corporate collections internationally\, including several museums such as the New York Public Library\, the Museum of the City of New York\, the National Gallery of Australia\, and more. \nLuccio has held over 40 exhibitions\, including two major solo shows in New York. He has exhibited in a large number of group\, curated and award shows\, and has received several commissions. Luccio’s work has been shortlisted for many major awards including twice for both the Dobell Prize for Drawing\, in 2009 and 2010\, and the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing\, in 2013 and 2016. \nFor further information please visit marcoluccio.com.au/about/[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Opening” tab_id=”1536213952664-b275d821-bebf”][vc_column_text]MANHATTAN DREAMING\nOpening event\nTuesday 25 September 5.30pm – 7pm \nJoin artist Marco Luccio for the official opening of his exhibition\, MANHATTAN DREAMING.\nOpening speaker: Guy Grossi \nRSVP: communications@fortyfivedownstairs.com[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist Talk” tab_id=”1533099700370-8f0c206e-8e6a”][vc_column_text]NEW YORK STORIES\nArtist Talk\nSaturday 6 October 11am – 1pm \nJoin artist Marco Luccio as he speaks about his new exhibition Manhattan Dreaming\, and his time in New York creating the works for the show. \nRSVPs essential.\nEmail: communications@fortyfivedownstairs.com[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180828
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180909
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SUMMARY:Hyperrealism and Improvisation
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nJames Yuncken\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nHyperrealism and Improvisation\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]28 August – 8 September 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]\nThere is no one way in creativity. Different ways not only serve different purposes\, they can inform one another. \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-b0b3368e-b9efcfb4-801e” title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Hyperrealism and Improvisation are two ways artist James Yuncken has been working the last years. Two quite different modes of expression fit for different purposes. \nHyperrealism for the series of landscape paintings from a trip along the Oodnadatta Track. \nHyperrealism denotes a realistic treatment of a scene\, an inventory of detail\, but at the same time something more\, an attempt to give a sense of the experience of the place – or at least his experience of it: The vastness\, the sense of geological time\, of grand and overwhelming natural forces slowly and inexorably at work\, the struggle facing life in an extreme environment. \nIt’s a landscape shaped by heat and dryness\, also by water that now and again inundates it and\, because of its flatness\, floods all over\, turns the earth soft and erodes it. \nThe Improvisations are drawings done in Yuncken’s residency at St Vincent’s Hospital. \nThat began almost at the same time as his trip along the Oodnadatta Track. In his once-weekly visits to St Vincent’s Caritas Christi studios\, Yuncken would attempt to fill as many sheets of paper as quickly and spontaneously as he could. \nPerhaps a respite from the paintings determined by the world without\, these are genuine improvisations\, determined by the world within. No prior plan\, only the spontaneous expression of a state of mind. The game was to try to make each mark lively and interesting and then the next likewise in relation to the marks gone down before. If a subject matter arose along the way\, then good. If not\, no matter. \n“There is no one way in creativity. Different ways not only serve different purposes\, they can inform one another. Operating these two modes in parallel has\, I believe\, made me better at both.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9efcfb4-801e”][vc_column_text]James Yuncken is a Melbourne based artist\, working from a studio on Smith Street in Fitzroy. \nJames has exhibited frequently in Melbourne and Canberra since 1989. \n  \nSELECTED EXHIBITIONS \n2018                Improvisations\, St Vincent’s Residency: Drawings from Caritas Christi\, St Vincent’s Gallery\, Fitzroy \n2017                Represented 45 at 45\, fortyfivedownstairs\, Melbourne \n2015                The Drawing Room\, Prints\, Drawings and Bas Relief\, fortyfivedownstairs\, Melbourne  \n2014                Places Nearby\, More Inner Melbourne fortyfivedownstairs\, Melbourne \n2012                Walking to Work\, Melbourne\, Inner East fortyfivedownstairs\, Melbourne \n2011                Vox Pix\, Voices and Images Together Centre for Theology and Ministry\, Parkville \n2010                Travelling North\, Journey to Cape York fortyfivedownstairs\, Melbourne \n2008                Abstraction and Space\, fortyfivedownstairs\, Melbourne \n2005                Formal Considerations\, 257 Church St\, Richmond and On-line \n2003                Sense of Place\, SPAN Galleries\, Melbourne \n2001                Presence/Absence\, SPAN Galleries\, Melbourne \n2000                Represented 8 x 8\, Roar Studios\, Fitzroy \n1999                Represented 8 x 8\, Roar Studios\, Fitzroy \n1998                Represented 3rd Annual Summer Show\, Galerie helengory\, Richmond \n1997                First Steps\, Galerie helengory\, Richmond \n1996                Represented A Four Art 19 ninety-six\, Westspace \n1995                Studio Landscape Exhibition\, Smith Street Studio\, Fitzroy \n1993                Represented Swan Hill Print and Drawing Show \n1992                Represented Studio One’s ’92 Pressing Annual Show\, Spiral Arm Gallery\, Canberra \n1990                Represented Sun\, Smoke and Steel\, Studio One touring exhibition Canberra\, Sydney\, Newcastle \n1989                Images in Different Genres\, Dorette’s Bistro\, Canberra[/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:20180814
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180826
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SUMMARY:Darker Places
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nCaroline Walls\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nDarker Places\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]14 – 25 August 2018\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 11am to 5pm\,\nSaturday 18 August 12pm to 4pm\,\nSaturday 25 August 11am – 3pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]\n…envision women not as subject or object but as self. \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 title=”Exhibition” tab_id=”1528437322169-ce417bd7-1870″][vc_column_text]Darker Places\, a new series of paintings and drawings by Caroline Walls\, is an extension of her art practice where the female is the central focus of consideration. \nThe exhibition will run at fortyfivedownstairs from 14 – 25 August 2018. \nWalls invites the viewer to envision women not as subject or object but as self. The abstracted works in Darker Places aim not to transcribe\, but rather imply\, a feeling of of the feminine and all that this carries with it: strength\, motherhood\, fragility\, sexuality\, burden and beauty.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9efcee8-1cd1″ title=”Artist Statement”][vc_column_text]This latest series of paintings and drawings\, titled Darker Places\, is an extension of my art practice where the female is the central focus of consideration. \nThrough the depiction of abstracted figures and forms I hope the viewer can envision women not as subject or object but as self\, conveying notions of sensuality\, inner beauty and the intangible qualities associated with the female. I’m deeply curious about the distinction between the exterior and interior self (or the private and the public self) and the consequent mapping of our own body’s boundaries – the way in which the formless matter of the female psyche has to be contained within these boundaries\, conventions and poses. Through my exploration into these ideas I hope to create a visual language that speaks to and of the female experience and the continual search for the meaning and possibilities of personal identity\, whilst always posing the question – what defines an autonomous and absolute woman when the surface of her body has become her frame\, her armour? \nThe abstracted works Darker Places aim not to transcribe\, but rather imply\, a feeling of of the feminine and all that this carries with it: strength\, motherhood\, fragility\, sexuality\, burden and beauty. I’ve studied the female silhouette as a solidified whole – reworking and reducing the body to its most essential form in order to heighten it’s expressive power\, ultimately hoping to break the body out of it’s framing contours\, and instead creating new\, unapologetic boundaries. \nThe process of reduction plays an essential part in the creation of this new series of artworks\, subtracting detail and simplifying forms to create highly abstracted artworks that although streamlined still hope to achieve a sense of expression and vitality. It is as much about the lines that I choose to paint as it is about the lines I choose to leave out\, with simplification of form being at the core of this.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist Bio” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b3368e-b9efcee8-1cd1″][vc_column_text]Caroline Walls\nb. 1984\, Auckland NZ \nMelbourne-based Caroline Walls is a contemporary New Zealand-born artist working across a number of media\, including painting\, drawing\, sculpture and print-making. Walls draws inspiration from the movement and fluidity of the female form\, moments of intimacy\, contemporary perceptions of women’s sexuality in the current cultural sphere\, as well as notions of gender and fertility. Born in 1984 in Auckland\, New Zealand she has studied at Swinburne University of Melbourne and the Victorian College of the Arts. She has spent extensive time living abroad in London and New York before returning to Australia to continue her art practice. \nKeenly interested in the construction and complexity of the female identity\, and the distinction between the private and the public self\, which are key themes of the work she produces\, her artistic practice is grounded in a sensitive use of colour and a deep understanding of composition and form. Caroline’s reductive paintings are stripped back to the most essential line and shape to heighten the expressive power of each artwork. There is obvious intention behind the lithe colour scheme of her paintings\, which resonate with fleshy\, natural milk and oak tones of the skin. \nCaroline has previously had three solo exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney\, Australia and has also exhibited in a number of group shows including the AFF in New York City\, Platform\, Los Angeles and the The Other Art Fair. Darker Places will be her fourth solo exhibition to date\, opening in August 2018 at fortyfivedownstairs on Flinders Lane in Melbourne\, Australia.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180522
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180603
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SUMMARY:MAXIMUM minimal
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]\nAndrew Scollo\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]22 May – 2 June 2018\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]\nLines are liberated from materiality… \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″]???????????????????????????????????? \nAndrew Scollo\, Lines - composition 1 (detail) \n???????????????????????????????????? \nAndrew Scollo\, Lines 5 (detail) \n???????????????????????????????????? \n[/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1451285630039-f4b33ad9-e290b1db-6de15fd4-0563″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Architects draw lines to describe real things. The line indicates the location and the extent of an object and often—albeit by symbolic representation—what that object is. The line seen in these paintings performs a different function. Lines are liberated from materiality\, though admittedly still constrained within an orthogonal grid. Unlike a vector with two defined points located in Cartesian space\, the lines of colour have no particular beginning or end. The vertical line is occasionally cut or overlayed by an invisible or visible horizontal element.  Some solid elements are sliced into thin fragments of colour\, revealing ambiguously negative or positive remnant stripes. Unlike the intended flatness of a colour field painting\, lines or their fragments become ‘figure’ to a spatially located ‘ground’. There is an incidental perspectival recession that occurs when a strip of colour floats over or intersects the colour in the background. \nThe lines are a vehicle by which the artist explores the strong and weak forces of each colour or hue. A subjective decision responds to adjacent colours and whether harmony or discord is the response to the enforced co-existence. \nThe ‘lines’ paintings have no intended viewpoint and could be segmented into many small compositions. Many small phrases repeat\, creating a dimension of time. Here the intention is more meditative than narrative. \nOther works adopt a different approach to colour. The relationship attempted is more kinetic. Coloured elements run\, jump or float along horizontal planes. \nThe organisation is in fields of coloured bands varying in hue and intensity. In some works\, the linear elements are actual separate canvases jammed together implying the potential slippage or fracturing along a horizon.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1451285630325-09def419-bb74b1db-6de15fd4-0563″][vc_column_text]Retiring after a few decades as a practising architect\, Andrew Scollo has returned to his first interest: making art. He initially graduated from art school in the early seventies majoring in sculpture. During the last few years he began exploring ideas and speculations about painting\, producing small works on paper.  Despite the many and recent pronouncements of the death of painting\, he extended this experimentation to paint on canvas. This resulted in the work for the current and his first solo exhibition.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180508
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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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LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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SUMMARY:A life seen through cut outs
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]\nKERRY ARMSTRONG\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nA life seen through cut outs\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]10 April – 5 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]\nFinding figuration through means of abstraction… \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]'Pigface #2' 2018\, Paddocks for Ponies\, Oil and Acrylic on Belgian Linen\, 140 x 140 cm \n‘Looking for Haynet’ 2018\, Paddocks for Ponies\, Oil and Acrylic on Belgian Linen\, 203 x 203 cm \n‘First Sketch’ 2017\, Paddocks for Ponies\, Oil and Acrylic on Belgian Linen\, 190 x 250 cm \n'Girl in Grass' 2018\, Paddocks for Ponies\, Oil and Acrylic on Belgian Linen\, 71 x 71 cm \nInterior \n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b30bc6-b651″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Typically\, Kerry Armstrong paints from events\, memories and emotions. Paddocks for Ponies was the first series that saw her subconsciously exploring her future. \nParadoxically\, what started as a draft for impending plans has seen the needle now draw back across the past. \nReflecting a subconscious discovery of child-like memories and instances\, Kerry approaches each piece with a strong sense of play and naivety. Within the process she is always seeking to build an understanding of the narrative rather than create the aesthetic value in the piece. \nFeeding from spontaneity\, the palette contains a sequence of numeric and tangible values. Working with decisive idiosyncratic colours\, she maintains an integrity and powerful emotion with each purposeful stroke. Finding figuration through means of abstraction\, Kerry flagrantly makes marks in order to feel her way sequentially through the process of the piece. The intuitive nature of her strokes recalls a memory wrought with purpose and emotion. \nPreferring a degree of physical separation and otherness when reflecting on her works\, Kerry works to a large scale. Aiming to feel engulfed by her piece ultimately small by comparison she uses scale to amplify play and purity. Viewers of the work are invited to feel absorbed and drawn into the narrative along with the artist through scale. \nApplying the same spontaneity and child-like principles\, materials are not used sparingly. Simultaneously investigating contrasting textures of oil and acrylic paints Kerry moves with a rapid motion\, working with the piece until reaching a subconscious resolute.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6905c-b0b30bc6-b651″][vc_column_text]I am a Melbourne-based Abstract Expressionist. \nMy work allows me to capture and document moments of raw emotional honesty. I paint episodic glimpses of my life resulting in a deeper connection to subconscious\, personal matter. \nA physical distance and ‘otherness’ I feel when sitting back observantly from my work initiates and flirts with further dialogue. I’m always working towards a sense of self-understanding and growth through the work. \nKerry Armstrong \nSolo Exhibitions\n2016 Solo Show “All kinds of truth” 650 Church St\, Richmond VIC\n2016 Solo Show “Tell a stranger” Yellow House Gallery\, Potts Point\, NSW\n2016 Solo Show “Circular Thoughts” Metro Gallery\, Armadale\, VIC\n2015 Solo Show “Storms come early” Yellow House Gallery\, Potts Point\, NSW \nGroup Exhibitions\n2017 Group Show Owen Dixon Chambers\, VIC\n2016 Group Show Denfair\, Exhibition Centre\, VIC\n2015 Group Show Yellow House Gallery\, Potts Point NSW\n2015 Group Show Denfair\, Exhibition Centre\, VIC\n2014 Group Show “Melbourne Collective”\, Cooks Hill Gallery Newcastle NSW\n2014 Group Show “Shaking the Kaleidoscope” Tusk Gallery\, Prahran\, VIC\n2014 Group Show “Ready to bare” Liquid Art House Gallery\, Boston USA\n2014 Group Show “Peace of Art” Prahran\, VIC\n2014 Group Show CamART 2014\, Canterbury\, VIC \nPublications\nLondon Design Journal – Mim Design – Case Meallin Project \nContemporist – Mim Design – Case Meallin Project \nMedia\nVogue Living\, Belle Magazine\, Home beautiful\, Home Design Magazine\, Grand\nDesigns\, Art Edit\, Australian Country Homes \nCollaborations\nAurelio Costarella – Couture Collection – London/Paris 2016 \nArt Prizes\nEntrant – Wynne Prize – 2016\nEntrant – Belle Arti Prize – 2016\nEntrant – Paddington Prize – 2016 \nCollections\nFrancesca Packer Sydney\nVIP Suite Mirage Resort Port Douglas\nBox Hill Hospital\nNumerous Private residences\, Boston\, New York\, Singapore\, Hong Kong\, Italy\, NZ[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Daily Encounters
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]\nRobyn Rich\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]20 March – 7 April 2018\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]\nThere is nothing I love more than telling the stories of everyday life and in this busy and chaotic world I am intrigued by the simple things that make me stop and take notice. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1451285630039-f4b33ad9-e290b1db-6de14e46-c9d1″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]We are pleased to announce Robyn Rich as the recipient of our 2018 Artist in Residence. Robyn will be in residence from 20 February – 7 April 2018. \nAs part of her residency at fortyfivedownstairs\, Robyn will present Daily Encounters\, an exhibition of paintings that explore life through the eyes of the Melbourne artist. \nAfter working in the fortyfivedownstairs artist studio\, Robyn will turn the gallery into her home studio with the return of the portrait project\, painting peoples portraits from life and giving visitors the opportunity to see the artist at work amongst the body of work hanging on the walls. \nThere is nothing I love more than telling the stories of everyday life and in this busy and chaotic world I am intrigued by the simple things that make me stop and take notice.  \nI continually ask myself what makes a good image\, what tells my story\, and allows others to connect with it in their own way? Is it the scrunched up note that I wrote when I was working out how to deal with the ups and downs of a year gone by\, or the relentless rubbish we are continually finding discarded and washed up on our beaches\, or maybe it is the person taking her dogs for a walk that I see all the time but have never spoken to. \nThis exhibition is a collection of portraits\, still life and landscapes painted in oils\, on timber\, canvas\, vintage tobacco tins\, ceramic bowls and old soup spoons with a dash of interactive art thrown in as I turn the gallery into my studio. \nPlease email us to register your interest in having a portrait painted. \nSchool groups are welcome to book a session with Robyn during the exhibition. Please email us or call 9662 9966[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1451285630325-09def419-bb74b1db-6de14e46-c9d1″][vc_column_text]Robyn Rich was born in Melbourne in 1971\, she is an artist\, wife and mother of one. After 6 years of studying Visual Arts at Chisholm Frankston\, Robyn is now embarking on building her art career through exhibitions\, commissions\, workshops\, artist talks and art prizes. \nRobyn enjoys working across a variety of mediums including drawing and fabric sculpture\, but oil painting is her main passion. \nWorking in oils\, Robyn’s aim is to provide narrative and comment on our everyday experiences\, bringing to life the souls and the stories of the people and  objects she paints. Within her paintings she examines both the beauty and the emotion that comes with everyday life. She sees beauty in the small\, the forgotten and the sometimes very mundane. She is not only drawn to this objects we surround ourselves with\, but fascinated with he way we relate to and interact with them\, the way they make us feel and the memories they evoke. \nRobyn has been part of exhibitions is in Melbourne\, Mildura and NSW and has works in both public and private collections. Robyn has been a semi finalist in the Doug Moran portrait prize\, a finalist twice in The Portia Geach Memorial Portrait Awards\, The Rick Amor portrait prize\, and has exhibited at The Johnston Collection House Museum on numerous occasions.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Thousand kisses deep
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]\nLisa Sewards\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]6-17 March 2018\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]\nSewards imbues her work with a poetic stillness that suggests notions of reflection and passiveness… \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″]lisasewards_ghostfleet_web \nLisaSewards_Wreath_web \nlisasewards_thousandkissesdeep_web \nlisasewards_parajellyii_700 \nlisasewards_theallureisdeep_web \n[/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1451285630039-f4b33ad9-e290b1db-6de19ab8-a7dc” title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Lisa Sewards continues to explore the parachute object from its pure functional form to its rich association with past stories that she has uncovered\, both personal and historical.  An image of a medusozoa\, or as captured Sewards’ mind\, a “maritime parachute” caught her interest due to its visual lineage to Parachutes\, which have been fundamental in her retrospective bodies of work. The medusozoa image and its article led to research into the serene waters of Truk Lagoon in Micronesia\, the resting place for hundreds of sunken vessels\, aircrafts and their ghosts. \nTruk Lagoon was the location of Japan’s naval stronghold in the central Pacific during WW2 and in February 1944 America’s Operation Hailstone struck its fleet and the lagoon floor was transformed into a macabre and haunting graveyard.  Nature has hidden and healed the scars of this event\, which has receded into history\, and today a magnificent underwater world exists of colourful reefs\, corals and abundance of jellyfish varieties. This watery grave is an incredible time capsule and submerged museum within a peaceful flourishing marine ecosystem. \nSewards has sourced small US military pilot parachutes that are reminiscent of jellyfish.  They are suspended in her studio providing inspiration for her illusory “parajellys”.  These chutes will physically be incorporated into the Thousand kisses deep exhibition adding a third dimension. \nIn producing this body of new works\, Sewards’ drawings are etched into solar plates and then the final prints are all hand pulled on a press. She is reworking several of the prints to create large-scale pigment prints which will cover one gallery wall reflecting fractured lagoons. These works on paper and a suite of oil paintings are parallel through their colour palette\, imagery and quiescent application. \nTo reference Dr Julie Cotter “Sewards imbues her work with a poetic stillness that suggests notions of reflection and passiveness”.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1451285630325-09def419-bb74b1db-6de19ab8-a7dc”][vc_column_text]“I see so much beauty in the parachute object\, from its pure functional form to its rich association with past stories I have uncovered. To many people\, myself included\, they provide a universal symbol of strength\, hope\, security and grace”. \nThe parachute object is the source for Seward’s imagery\, continually creating storytelling in the absence of text.  Her warehouse studio is filled with suspended vintage parachute canopies that provide constant inspiration.  As part of her preparation and practice Sewards extensively researches her subject matter\, always searching and probing for unique historical fragments. \nSewards’ printmaking techniques continually evolve and incorporate traditional intaglio printmaking\, etching using photopolymer plates\, and also contemporary digital technology. \nCOLLECTIONS \nMGC Contemporary Print Collection\, Manhattan NYC USA \nAustralian War Memorial\, ACT Australia \nState Library of Victoria Melbourne VIC Australia \nStonnington Council Malvern VIC Australia \nSt Leonards College East Brighton VIC Australia \nHampton Primary School Hampton VIC Australia \nAlbert Park College Albert Park VIC Australia \nPrivate Collections Australia\, USA\, Croatia\, UK        \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/thousand-kisses-deep/
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SUMMARY:Save me
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]\nAnna Taylor\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nSave Me\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]13 February – 3 March 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]\nWithin a seamed rock held in my palm\, a river cuts through land. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Anna Taylor\, Dagze Lake\, Tibet\, Save Me Series\, photographed by Christopher Sanders \nAnna Taylor\, The Andes\, Peru\, Save Me Series\, photographed by Christopher Sanders \nAnna Taylor\, Gosse Bluff\, Australia\, Save Me Series\, photographed by Christopher Sanders \n[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e” title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Long drawn to the solace of landscape\, Anna Taylor’s work explores the paradox of the minutiae of landscape replicated in the aerial view. She documents this exquisite mirroring of detail\, pattern and line\, finding these echoes reverberate endlessly. \nThese recent paintings cover vast surface areas of earth as captured from space. Save me is both a celebration of our earth and its incredible beauty\, and a call to action to save it.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1518320329651-b769a1a3-29e6″][vc_column_text]Anna Taylor has painted landscape for many years.  From 2006 she spent eighteen months travelling to and from Melbourne to Darwin by air\, living in the Kakadu area.  The observations made during this time have fed her work ever since. \nAnna observed the minutiae of nature\, a rock surface\, replicated what she saw from above. Cracks in the rocks became rivers or escarpments seen from the air. This morphing of perspective has fascinated her ever since. \nShe observed the decaying of huge leaves left a webbing\, a weaving perhaps\, replicating the ‘dilly bags’ created by the Yolngu people over many thousands of years. This began her vessel making\, knitting wire\, and receiving tuition in the traditional techniques from the Yolngu women. \nThe works at fortyfivedownstairs are a culmination of these many years of depicting these elements of nature.  The wire works are no longer vessels\, but rivers of bone eerily representing global warming.  Her paintings have expanded to encompass the incredible beauty of the earth’s surface and Anna is indebted to NASA and the Japanese ASTER (the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) program for the images she has worked with.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist Talks” tab_id=”1519181044604-a6cc23fb-7710″][vc_column_text]Please join us in the gallery for two illuminating talks as part of Anna Taylor’s exhibition Save me. \nArtist Talk\nSaturday 24 February\n2pm \n‘Climate Action’\nDr Amaryll Perlesz (Darebin Climate Action Now)\nSaturday 3 March\n2pm \nNo RSVPs required.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/anna-taylor/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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