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2024 Call-Out

Do you have something you’re ready to share? fortyfivedownstairs is launching an exciting January – June 2024 program! We invite…

Joint Statement by Theatres and Arts Venues in Victoria

  This joint statement by theatres and arts venues in Melbourne acknowledges the significant and specific impacts that the COVID-19…

The Age article Burn This

Melbourne actor lands ‘monster role’ as Burn This revisits the AIDS epidemic By Catherine Lambert January 4, 2021   It’s been…

Marisa Mu Online Exhibition

Visions of Love by Marisa Mu is the third solo exhibition of fortyfivedownstairs’ online Fragments series, and the final Fragment of…

Gallery Reopening with exhibitions by David Hirst & Peta Cross

We’re incredibly pleased to announce that we will be reopening the gallery at fortyfivedownstairs on Tuesday 1 December.  We can’t…

James Hale Online Exhibition

Deep and meaningless, the second solo exhibition of fortyfivedownstairs’ online Fragments series features the work of Melbourne artist, James Hale. …

Terry Swann Online Exhibition

In the first solo exhibition of fortyfivedownstairs’ Fragments series, artist Terry Swann – one of Australia’s foremost contemporary landscape watercolourists…

Julian Burnside: The importance of art

Why does art matter? Why should we support the arts? Economic rationalists would point out that most artists are economically…

ANNOUNCEMENT: Fragments Online Exhibition Series

2020 has been a difficult year for everyone, and in times like these the sense of humanity and connection that…

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