Bird Call
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.
Imperishables: Sculptures and Paintings
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
Greedy Pixiu are a pan Asian chimera to accompany us back from a difficult pandemic year.
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We're so looking forward to Janno McLaughlin's upcoming exhibition Making Nonsense at fortyfivedownstairs later this year (dates to be announced soon!). Janno has been incredibly busy on many projects these last few months, including this exhibition, with Rose Lang as…
Between Horizons
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.
Meteorites from Earth
A series of sculptures and drawings as a result of the artist's fascination with the intersections of space, nature and science.
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.
Yenbena Lotjpa: Ancestors Speak Out
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
TOO-ROO-DUN has brought together Victorian Aboriginal communities to create an immersive and imagined exhibition celebrating the Bunyip.
Between Us
An exhibition of glass portraits depicting the diversity of the artist's community.
Bird as totem
An exhibition of sculpture, drawing and prints commenting on issues affecting our lives, war, the environment and the higher being.
Uncanny Life – artifact and identity
An extension of the research undertaken for Jan Donaldson's PhD project exploring the doll/puppet as a cultural icon and artifact.
This life of accretion
This life of accretion is an exploration of intricate and interesting processes, borne of a desire to push artistic boundaries.
Disfiguration: Sculpture from Italy
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.
Configurations
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
Tango of the Minimal Surface explores the complexity of form and its realisation via the latest technology of 3D printing.
Openings: Judy Holding
Opening of The Unshaped World II by Judy Holding. Tuesday 20 July 2010