SEE BEYOND : Artwork by Women in Victorian Prisons
This exhibition at fortyfivedownstairs is a selection of artworks collected over the many years of Somebody’s Daughter’s work with women in Victorian prisons.
Transcending Spaces
This exhibition will showcase trans artists from all mediums and challenge gendered spaces, whilst acknowledging the vital role of community in making us feel loved and safe.
Stitching Change
Stitching Change is a new and exciting exhibition highlighting the abundance of textile artists in Victoria and showcasing the progressive art form of textiles including work that explores the relationship between textiles and other art disciplines.
Microcosmographia
Microcosmographia brings together five artists working with themes of science and nature, the earth bound and geology, cosmology, mythology and universal/cosmos sciences.
1.5 Degrees
A group exhibition responding to the challenge of the global community to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. It is about the science of climate change, communicated in diverse and intriguing ways.
Sensitive Sweethearts
Sensitive Sweethearts is an art exhibition for those who wear their heart on their sleeve.
SMALL! 2019
The second annual community-based small works exhibition at fortyfivedownstairs.
Complex Life
Two friends and artists use their artistic processes to explore their positions in the world, both in a physical, environmental and emotional manner.
Emerging Artist Award 2019
fortyfivedownstairs is excited to present the fifth annual Emerging Artist Award in 2019.
SMALL! exhibition
fortyfivedownstairs has submissions from everyone for our first ever community-sourced small works exhibition, SMALL!
All We Can’t See: Illustrating the Nauru Files
A hugely impressive roster of award-wining Australian artists, including Abdul Abdullah, Janet Laurence and Ben Quilty have joined forces once again for the Melbourne installment of All We Can’t See, depicting individual interpretations of the leaked Nauru files exposed by The Guardian in 2016.
A Small Gathering
A Small Gathering brings together a series of artworks from Studio Gallery Melbourne.
Between the Lines
Between the Lines features a selection of works from artists who have experienced issues associated with homelessness, a disability or other adversities.
Crossing: Beyond Baliseering
Crossing: Beyond Baliseering presents Melbourne with a glimpse of the ever growing contemporary art scene hailing from Bali, Indonesia.
