2024
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Off The Wall
FPS End Of Year Members Exhibition
2024 end of Year Member's exhibition, for small works, A3 and under, 2D or 3D.
All works priced $300 or under.
FPS End Of Year Members Exhibition
2024 end of Year Member's exhibition, for small works, A3 and under, 2D or 3D.
All works priced $300 or under.
'FPS Off the Wall' 2024, will allow for works to be purchased directly 'off the wall' during the exhibition, as to allow for collectors / art lovers, to purchase artful gifts ahead of the festive season. All media, framed or unframed works, prints, paintings, ceramics, books, photography, jewellery, bags and more!
8th November - 21st December
Celebration and Artists Market:
30th November 11am - 4pm
8th November - 21st December
Celebration and Artists Market:
30th November 11am - 4pm
UPCOMING
Gallery Calendar 2025
View the Gallery Calendar for 2025 HERE
Thank you to all our Artists, Members and Visitors to the gallery this year, we look forward to sharing a new lineup of shows with you next year.
PAST
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Mass Relief
Lino Club Exhibition A Show of FPS Members and Non Members. We are pleased to bring together works from our talented community of Lino Clubbers. 6th - 27th of January Opening Event: Thursday 18th of January Proudly Sponsored by the City of Stonnington 
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In Conversation With The Landscape
Helene Oberman
Solo Exhibition
31st January - 17th February
Opening Celebration
Thursday February 1st 6-8pm
FPS GRADUATE PRIZE
Ned Johnson, Michael Lye and Amy Grover
Graduate Prize Show, Featuring works from recent graduates from Monash University and RMIT
21st February - 9th March
Proudly Supported by patron of the arts Robin Bowen
Opening Celebration
Thursday February 22nd 6-8pm
Ned Johnson, Michael Lye and Amy Grover
Graduate Prize Show, Featuring works from recent graduates from Monash University and RMIT
21st February - 9th March
Proudly Supported by patron of the arts Robin Bowen
Opening Celebration
Thursday February 22nd 6-8pm
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Diary of an Ephemerist Sande Bruch Solo Exhibition 13th March - 6th April Opening Celebration: Saturday March 16th 2-4pm |
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Seeding Hope Lea Rose Solo Exhibition Lea Rose, art ecologist and environmentalist takes the viewer on a multimedia immersive art experience. For Seeding Hope Rose represents beauty and degradation, invoking hope, and understanding for environmental protection. 10th - 27th April Opening Celebration Thursday April 11th, 6-8pm ARTISTS TALK Saturday, April 13th, 11.30am |
Above, Beyond
Clare Humphries and Peter Humphries
Above, Beyond is an exhibition of print-based and painting works that explore celestial space (above), and panoramic terrestrial landscapes (beyond) from around Australia. The exhibition brings together the works of two artists, father and daughter, who have spent many years drawing, painting and printing alongside one another, including time spent together in rural and remote regions of the continent. Each artists’ practice explores the experience of being within place, particularly where wide and unobstructed views offer sensations of wonderment and connectedness to land and sky.
3rd - 18th May
Clare Humphries and Peter Humphries
Above, Beyond is an exhibition of print-based and painting works that explore celestial space (above), and panoramic terrestrial landscapes (beyond) from around Australia. The exhibition brings together the works of two artists, father and daughter, who have spent many years drawing, painting and printing alongside one another, including time spent together in rural and remote regions of the continent. Each artists’ practice explores the experience of being within place, particularly where wide and unobstructed views offer sensations of wonderment and connectedness to land and sky.
3rd - 18th May
FPS Members Artist Book Prize
22nd May - 15th June
Coinciding with the Art Book Fair Held at the NGV each year our Biennial Artist Book Prize Show is back again.
Prizes Categories
1. Craftsmanship
2. Experimentation with form
3. Incorporation of text
All three selected winning artists win the opportunity to exhibit together with FPS in 2025.
22nd May - 15th June
Coinciding with the Art Book Fair Held at the NGV each year our Biennial Artist Book Prize Show is back again.
Prizes Categories
1. Craftsmanship
2. Experimentation with form
3. Incorporation of text
All three selected winning artists win the opportunity to exhibit together with FPS in 2025.
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LAURA CASTELL, 2024 winner in the category of Craftsmanship
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JO DARVALL, 2024 winner in the category of Incorporation of Text
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PETER WARD 2024 winner in the category of Experimentation with Form
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JUDGES ANNOUNCED
Anna Welch Principal Librarian, History of the Book and Arts at State Library of Victoria
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison Artistic Duo who have been collaborating for over 20 years making artists’
books, zines, collages, stories, prints, and drawings.
Post Cards North and South 2024
Studio Exhibition
A Travelling show of Postcard sized prints with the objective to share and extend the diversity and innovation of printmaking
techniques and transferable skills. Through three Print collectives or Studios the show is presented by each participating
group to encourage networking between each organisation and their members.
2024 participating Groups are PressNorth Printmakers (Townsville), Firestation Print Studio (Melbourne)
and The Printmaking Girls (South Africa)
5th June - 3rd July
Opening Celebration:
Thursday 6th June 5-7pm
Studio Exhibition
A Travelling show of Postcard sized prints with the objective to share and extend the diversity and innovation of printmaking
techniques and transferable skills. Through three Print collectives or Studios the show is presented by each participating
group to encourage networking between each organisation and their members.
2024 participating Groups are PressNorth Printmakers (Townsville), Firestation Print Studio (Melbourne)
and The Printmaking Girls (South Africa)
5th June - 3rd July
Opening Celebration:
Thursday 6th June 5-7pm
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A Common Thread Myra Kaufman Solo Exhibition A Common Thread is a multi-themed exhibition, the culmination of 5 years of linocuts, collagraphs, monoprints and mixed media collages many of which Myra created at home printing by hand during lockdown. The common link, or rather the common thread, tying the variety of images was the inspiration derived from Myra’s personal collection of laces, doilies, crocheted and embroidered odds and sods housed in old suitcases. For Myra these hand-me-down items represent a link to family stories, tales of surviving war and new beginnings in a new land. 19th June - 6th July Opening Celebration: Saturday 22nd June 2-4pm ARTIST TALK: Friday 5th of July 11am |
Surroundings
OPEN HOUSE MELBOURNE MEMBERS SHOW
FPS's Annual Members Group Show to coincide with Open House Melbourne. This year the Open House Melbourne theme
is RE/DISCOVER your city. It is about discovering the unexpected, about seeking out new places and reconnecting
with old favourites.
Peoples Choice Prize Categories
1. Monoprint
2. Relief
3. Intaglio
4. Artist Book / Paper Sculpture
12th July - 3rd August
OPEN HOUSE MELBOURNE MEMBERS SHOW
FPS's Annual Members Group Show to coincide with Open House Melbourne. This year the Open House Melbourne theme
is RE/DISCOVER your city. It is about discovering the unexpected, about seeking out new places and reconnecting
with old favourites.
Peoples Choice Prize Categories
1. Monoprint
2. Relief
3. Intaglio
4. Artist Book / Paper Sculpture
12th July - 3rd August
ANNUAL OPEN STUDIO EVENT
Join the Firestation for their Open House Weekend where we will have Open Studios, Members Group Show and
Demonstrations for a range of Printmaking Methods, Letterpress and More!
Open House Weekend:
Saturday 27th - Sunday 28th July
The Firestation Print Studio OPEN STUDIOS weekend is proudly supported by:
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Threads Which Connect Us
Anastasia Kotzapavlidis
Solo Exhibition
7th - 24th August
Opening Celebration:
Thursday 8th August 6-8pm
The Vessel
FPS Members Show
Group Show centred around the idea of the Vessel
28th August - 21st September
Opening Celebration:
Thursday 29th August 6-8pm
Swooping Season
Karen Neal
Solo Exhibition
"Swooping Season is my tribute to the Magpies that have been sharing our home and inspiring my art practice for the past 10 years. I feel most fortunate to have had the privilege of observing the yearly breeding cycle and learning about Magpie family behaviour over this time period.
I share my respect and love for these amazing birds through this selection of prints, watercolours and artist books."
25th September - 12th October
Opening Celebration:
Saturday 28th September 2-4pm
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To Traverse a Mark Fiona Davey Solo Exhibition Fiona Davey is the recipient of the Shirley Joan Ross Scholarship 2023, which awards an emerging artist a solo exhibition here at FPS. 16th October - 2nd November Opening Celebration: Thursday 17th October 6-8pm |
