hopping mad

CRAFT FIND OF THE WEEK
This one's for you Miss Chinchilla...

Last year we'd found the chocolate brown bunnies of the apocolypse so this poor fella didn't get a look in. However the ladies were warned that if this somewhat disturbing black velvet rabbit didn't feature over the easter break we were going to be in some serious trouble. So here he is. Called both Snugggle Bunny and Leather Eye depending on his quixotic stare and found at a high street festival market stall many moons past he is owned by no-one yet belongs to us all, an enigma wrapped in a riddle with a side order of strange.

thank god it's friday

HE MADE THEM HIMSELF

Last night saw all the ladies out on the tiles at Tim Fleming's opening... top job done by our humble plyman and big props for pulling a solo show together while editing a film full time and keeping up with production work! Utopian Slumps proved an interesting new space with plenty of scando ceiling action lending it's retro vibe to Tim's timber pie charts. Of course we were happy to see that the obligatory crowd of PYT's didn't disapoint, and found some excellent outfitting vying for our viewing time and critical reviewing...
not the least of which was the excellent footwear stylings of the hml mother and daughter team.

Here's the artist himself talking up the merits of his one off timber finessing vs the more commercial pre cut pine ceiling boards of the gallery space.

... and while we enjoyed the sergio tacchini sportswear styling of the wall mounted work we were most intrigued with the table of not so random chaos where things fell apart.

off with the pixies

SHOW OF THE WEEK PART THREEWeeks and weeks ago the ladies of hml hobbled their cash and contacts together and managed to hook themselves up with some pre-release tix to the gig of the year. The Pixies. Ah how many, many, many years have we waited to see them in the flesh, and although one of us had to sit through staff planning meetings at work rather than the front bar of the Northcote Social Club while they played their 'secret' show (bugger!) we're still very very excited. One of the best things about this gig is that there'll be people both on stage and in the audience older than us. YAY! And who knew... Kim and Kelley Deal are avid knitters andwe've heard tales of wool throwing on stage. Really could there be anything better. Oh yes, that's right, yes... us, seeing the Pixies tonight, with Jarvis Cocker, Phoenix and in a late and unexpectedly enticing addition, The New York Dolls.

Anyway with luck we'll be recovered enough by Thursday to attend Flemo's New Values opening at the intriguingly named gallery Utopian Slumps, which by Thursday night might also be a good description for us...

as promised here are the details for the show... see you there.

NEW VALUES by TIM FLEMING

5th - 29th April... Opening 5th Alpril 6-9pm

@UTOPIAN SLUMPS 5/25 Easey street collingwood

enter via side alley Hours: Friday - Saturday 12-6pm, Sundays by appointment.

utopian slumps.org

Where for art thou

CRAFT FINDS OF THE WEEK
Ok so while we are waiting on the details of Fleming's show (today we promise) we ran around hml hq and found some vintage Flatland - the world that Tim created and that many of us occupy alot of the time.

For some reason the youngest member of hml sometime around the age of 9 became obsessed with all things dairy...this was a special commision that now sits up high in a very white kitchen:

This little forrest gets moved around the house quite a bit. Sometimes lego men can be found trimming the hedge...
We are pretty sure this is Tim. He wont confirm or deny. He's elusive isn't he...

we also found our Flatland safari scene... a favourite gazing distraction in the studio

and the Flatland championship fire brigade playset
and the newest and most highly prized piece in Beck's collection, the freshly minted 'norwegian wood' mirrored mayhem masterpiece...

top secret location

SHOW/S OF THE WEEK

Some times you get an invitation so beautiful that it takes your breath away. This one landed in our email. Opeing this thursday at Blindside Drips and Thickets is the work of two Brisbane based artists Kirra Jamison and Alice Lang. You all know how much we love owls...

Blindside is up on level 7 of the Nicholas Building and is open 12-6 Thursday to Saturday. When we go we are going to knock loudly on the studio door of...

OK so we know that this chap is having a show opening this week. Yes Tim Fleming (or flemo as we so condescendingly call him on occasion) is finally goin' solo with a big big show in a big big space in Collingwood. In Easy Street. We have no idea where or when exactly. it's not that he's playing it cool, it's just the ladies of hml aren't in on the details yet. More info when it comes to hand.

flemo call us.