The works in Bird Call reflect humanity’s social conscience regarding the natural environment, and the impact we collectively impose on the ecosystem and the self through ignorance and greed.
The artist combines metal and stone forms, suggesting the frailty of human existence, or powerful monolithic shapes, tarnished by the patina of time, in an effort to indicate “visibly or invisibly” fragments of human existence.
Greedy Pixiu are a pan Asian chimera to accompany us back from a difficult pandemic year.
Through the ceramic medium, this exhibition explores the concept of ‘Seasons’ in relation to individual life experiences and the shifts that seasonality and change presents.
A collection of new and delightfully peculiar small sculptures. They are fantastical watercraft, knotted, woven, and welded together with materials gathered on the artist's travels around Gippsland.
A series of sculptures and drawings as a result of the artist's fascination with the intersections of space, nature and science.
Two friends and artists use their artistic processes to explore their positions in the world, both in a physical, environmental and emotional manner.
A contemporary installation documenting and exploring a series of heart-wrenching letters and petitions written by the Ancestors to authorities in the 19th and 20th century.
TOO-ROO-DUN has brought together Victorian Aboriginal communities to create an immersive and imagined exhibition celebrating the Bunyip.
An exhibition of glass portraits depicting the diversity of the artist's community.
An exhibition of sculpture, drawing and prints commenting on issues affecting our lives, war, the environment and the higher being.
An extension of the research undertaken for Jan Donaldson's PhD project exploring the doll/puppet as a cultural icon and artifact.
An exhibition exploring the minutiae of landscape replicated in the aerial view, documenting the exquisite mirroring of detail, pattern and line. Both a celebration of our earth and it’s incredible
beauty, and a call to action to save it.
Convenire is an exhibition of sculpture, photography and works on paper by three renowned Melbourne artists.
An exhibition of 45 artists at fortyfivedownstairs to celebrate our fifteenth birthday!
This life of accretion is an exploration of intricate and interesting processes, borne of a desire to push artistic boundaries.
These recent works by David Mackie are largely inspired by the art of the past - a reflection of human ideas and stories across time and cultures.
Pietro Capogreco and Augustine Dall'Ava come together at fortyfivedownstairs to exhibit a series of drawings and sculptures in their exhibition Configurations.
Tango of the Minimal Surface explores the complexity of form and its realisation via the latest technology of 3D printing.