Step. Float. Fly
Step. Float. Fly has been formed through a warm and sometimes mysterious observation of people and animals as they engage within everyday activities and moments of contemplation.
Venues
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Silence #1.6: The Beauty in Death
Silence #1.6 is a philosophical study of mindfulness that all metaphysical conditions co-exist, and that death can provide a beautiful insight to understand and appreciate life.
Capturing Moments – People and Places
An exhibition of sketches, paintings and drawings capturing people and places.
After the Fire
Gavin Brown returns to fortyfivedownstairs with a new exhibition of paintings exploring beauty in the devastation of 2020.
Invisible Landscapes
An exhibition of experimental drypoint etchings, as an expression of Sal Cooper's relationship with the world around her, and her ongoing search for a language to describe it.
Entering the Subconscious: The COVID Works
Entering the Subconscious is a series of ink paintings that began at the beginning of COVID-19 in March 2020 and continued during the ongoing lockdowns in Melbourne in the intervening months. These works in sequence chart a journey as time in lockdown progressed.
Hindsight 20-20: A Melburnian Perspective
What does Collins Street look like at 5pm in 2020 lockdown? James Yuncken explores this question, and the wider ramifications of Melbourne's extended lockdown.
A Stream of Consciousness: One Year Later
An exploration and documentation of Braden Howard's subconscious throughout the year from August 2020 - August 2021, comprising one small artwork per day.
Hidden
A series of abstracted portrait paintings focusing on the vulnerability, yet quiet determination and resilience of the homeless women Dorothy Lipmann has come to know through the non-profit organisation Wintringham.
Imperishables
An exhibition of sculpture and painting examining the deep convictions of human experience through abstract line and shape.
Venus Virgin Tomarz
A collaborative exhibition of photographic prints by Robert Earp & Venus Virgin Tomarz.
Everything Else
Everything Else is an exhibition of contemporary collage works by Melbourne artist David Maxwell.
I See You
An exhibition of 100+ women/female identifying people from all around the world, brought together to celebrate their strength and character, with a little nod to the history of the beautiful Georgian Lover’s Eyes, but with a contemporary twist.
21AD
Freed from the straitjackets of client briefs, 21 creatives from the golden age of advertising and design come together for the first time in a joyfully unrestrained group exhibition.
Subtle Realms
A new series of ethereal, otherworldly landscape paintings of Megaliths and sacred sites from around the world.
Tales from the Greek
Tales from the Greek is a new exhibition and book launch by award winning international artist Marco Luccio who has once again united with award winning and Miles Franklin shortlisted author John Hughes.
Coastline
A series of paper cuts, collages and paintings depicting the Victorian southern coastline in the context of climate change and rising sea levels.