Mungo
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaFortyfivedownstairs presents Mungo, a solo painting exhibition by Susan Wald, as part of the 2022 gallery program.
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Vele
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaMICHELANGELO RUSSO & JENNIFER JABU Vele 2 August - 13 August 2022 hours: Tuesday - Friday: 12pm - 6pm Saturdays: 12pm - 4pm Tuesday and Friday evenings: 6pm - 8pm admission: Free The elements of composition are both rigid and fluid, angular and curvy, resulting in endless possibilities. Vele (pl) in Italian means sails. The…
To The Promised Land
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaThey risk everything for a chance of freedom. How many boats are never seen. How many people are never fished from the sea.
My Neighbours’ Gardens
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaThe flowers and plants that Treister choose to paint spoke to her on a personal level, symbolizing the months of lockdown, and a celebration of the beauty that only nature can produce.
Drifted
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaHer imaginary landscapes are triggered by an enduring fascination with textures, patterns and life forms in the natural world. Ambiguous, otherworldly themes suggestive of subterranean and underwater worlds, forests and biomorphic forms evoke curiosity and wonder.
It’s All in the Details
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaAn exhibition of wearable art by designer Kate Durham.
1863: The Birth of Impressionism
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaSongmakers Australia - soprano Merlyn Quaife AM, bass-baritone Nicholas Dinopoulos and pianist Andrea Katz - perform a program of stunning French repertoire by Debussy, Fauré, Duparc, Chausson and Poulenc.
Crawling Through the Dust of Life
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaWith densely textured surfaces creating movement and space, the work is suspended somewhere between the metaphysical and material. While referring to the natural world the images ultimately evoke otherworldliness and suggest an internal process of revelation.
Drift
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria“Drift” explores the state of mind where our consciousness drifted away to a difference place, wondering, imaging, and perhaps just thinking of nothing. Mind drifting breaks you away from the present moment and free your mind to a different world.
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fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaA reading of the new play 'post' by Jane Miller, directed by Beng Oh and featuring Keith Brockett, Steve Gome, Kelly Nash, Marissa O’Reilly, Sonya Suares and Glenn van Oosterom.
Crocodiles
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaA reading of the new play 'Crocodiles' by Vidya Rajan, directed by Marcel Dorney.
Spoken Word Circle
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaA special one-off evening of spoken word, art and ideas.
Perspective
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaThis mixed media series looks at the way in which society lives under the power and influence of the various media outlets, whose published material has decidedly far-reaching effects on how we think, look and feel.
Mycalicoes
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaUnlike industrially processed materials such as timber, steel and plastics, a living material such as mycelium is unpredictable and hard to control. Mycelium is sensitive to its surrounding temperature, humidity, and light.
Robbie Melville’s smallCHESTRA
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaFeaturing Melbourne jazz veterans Ronny Ferella (drums), Tamara Murphy (bass), Robbie Melville (guitar), Gideon Brazil (tenor saxophone, alto flute) and Flora Carbo (alto saxophone/bass clarinet), and classical cellist Zoe Knighton, the smallCHESTRA creates a spectacular range of dynamic and timbral possibilities in a relatively small package, and blurs the barriers between contemporary folk, jazz and classical.
Emerging Artist Award 2022
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoriapresented by fortyfivedownstairs Emerging Artist Award 2022 27 September - 8 October 2022 hours: Tuesday - Friday: 12pm - 6pm Saturdays: 12pm - 4pm Tuesday and Friday evenings: 6pm - 8pm admission: FreeView Exhibition Onlinefortyfivedownstairs presents the eighth annual Emerging Artist Award 2022. It is a pleasure to announce that fortyfivedownstairs will once again be filled with the work…
Recollection
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaA reading of the new play 'Recollection' by Georgia Ketels, directed by Cathy Hunt and featuring Sophie Ross, Michelle Keating and Ravenna Bouckaert.
Spoken Word Circle
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoriafortyfivedownstairs presents Spoken Word Circle Tuesday 4th October 2022 6pm - 8pm admission: Free ..An open mic night for anyone with pen or keyboard and a fire in their belly for words. All are welcome... fortyfivedownstairs Spoken Word Circle In the first week of October, fortyfivedownstairs continues the widely-enjoyed Spoken Word Circle happening for writers of every…
TREE
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaCLIMARTE is mounting an exhibition of 25 original artworks, each depicting a City of Melbourne trees. Trees face a dangerously warming world, among other threats. Life has a layered dialogue with trees in the city context. Trees in urban settings have circumstances not experienced by trees in non urban environments.
Subtle Realms
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaNaomi Bishop’s paintings search restlessly for connections between the terrestrial and celestial spheres, between geology and astronomy, science and myth. Intense and luminous, the paintings point to an invisible, unseen world that exists just beyond us.
Sombras
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaSombras means shadows or spectres in Spanish. Sal encountered it as a title translation of the 1970’s song Feelings by Morris Albert. These etchings, drawings and photographic works are also attempts at translation. They express a bleak and magical landscape she once inhabited, with all its fragility and potency.
View to Joy
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaPhiri learned to sculpt and mix different coloured clays by decorating the wall plastering of the huts where she lived and grew up. Phiri channels and repurposes these skills in her artwork today, choosing to work instead on canvas and with acrylic mediums. Her artwork focuses on life through positivity. Through her work she seeks to engage the viewer with stimulating colours and a whimsical joy that draws from the beauty of everyday life.
Birdsong
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaInformed by botanical and scientific illustration, Carolyn Roberts deconstructs her environment in order to better understand it.
Bird Call
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaThe 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.
What Made Lesley Pratchett so Mad?
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaA reading of the new play 'What Made Lesley Pratchett so Mad?' by Donna Hughes, directed by Julian Dibley-Hall.
M A D: Mutually Assured Destruction
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaMutually Assured Destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and security policy where a full scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the annihilation of both sides. It is based on the theory of deterrence, which holds that the threat of using strong weapons against the enemy prevents the enemy's use of those same weapons. As ridiculous as such a thing sounds, it is still today the modern deterrence of such an event
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Between Head and Heart: Beethoven, Chopin, and Liszt
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaA virtuosic recital of Romantic piano masterpieces performed by pianist Tristan Lee.
Spoken Word Circle
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaThis is an un-ticketed evening open to anyone from the curious to the ambitious who have an interest in sharing or experiencing living, breathing literature. The Spoken Word Circle encourages emerging and established writers of poetry, creative writing, lyricists, playwrights, novelists, biographers, diarists — all with a pen or keyboard and a fire in their belly for words are welcome.
SMALL!
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoriafortyfivedownstairs is excited to once again be hosting our community-sourced, small works exhibition SMALL!
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Where the Ocean is the Sky
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaThis body of artwork embraces and examines the interference that occurs when technology and nature exchange properties, rational and random patterns interpenetrate, and regular structure produces irrational effects.
Transcending Spaces
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaThis 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.
Off the Well Worn Path
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaObserving the relationship of the human condition, time, family and place Off the Well-Worn Path seeks to connect the past and present through inheritance and regeneration.
Symptoms of Mortality
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaTo create is to exercise the faith to attempt understanding. To understand is to surrender to empowerment from the intangible.
Can’t See for Looking
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaThe view becomes a window when a fly hits the glass; the next thought is which side is the fly on.
Gould: Elizabeth Acknowledged
fortyfivedownstairs gallery 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VictoriaIn a contemporary portrayal of Elizabeth Gould, Krieger has set her against a backdrop of the Australian bush. Gentle triggers allude to her uncertainty in an unknown land, perhaps a fear of finding herself unwelcome.