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.

bricks are heavy

THEY'RE MAKING IT THEMSELVES


We were gobsmacked as we walked up to the NGV on Wednesday our hearts always skip a beat at the waterwall, but this time it we were literally stopped in our tracks. We were confronted with a dreamy melting landscape of white city like a shimmering 3D chinese papercut and when we got inside the view was just as lovely. There they all were, peeps of all shapes and sizes busily building.

We were excited about the prospect of creating our own HML inclusion but undecided on our final design so decided to head straight for the members lounge and engage in some sketching over a cuppa. We were a little weirded out by the fact that everyone was sticking to buildings, we thought there might be some big cars, dumptrucks, names, at least one 'rude bit' and giant godzilla like creatures preparing to smash up the lego landscape like a b-grade movie, but no... all buildings, really beautiful willowy buildings, but still ALL buildings.

Anyway as you'd expect we ended up spending more time chatting than planning and by the time we emerged from the members cocoon the whole thing was full of kids and clearly we were no longer a chance... probably lucky really, after all the free caffeine and sugary biscuits we'd consumed who knows what kind of chaos we may have unleashed...

beady little eyes

CRAFT FIND OF THE WEEK



Well they aren't bricks but they do start with b, and given our love of DIY be-jewelling these wooden beads currently on sale at Maria George in Flinders lane were just too good to say no to. Really a fiver for a giant strand, who's going to pass that kind of bargain up?
Now if we could only decide what to do with them...

One Brick at a Time

SHOW OF THE WEEK

An exciting recent work by Danish contemporary artist Olafur Eliasson has been installed at NGV International and the ladies of hml are heading down there this week to get their paws on the interactive joy that can always be found in a pile of lego.

Eliasson’s 'The Cubic Structural Evolution Project' invites audience collaboration: viewers contribute to the construction of a Lego world with more than 400,000 white Lego blocks as building material. Children and adults participate to continually build and rebuild an environment for the duration of the installation. Active involvement is encouraged by Eliasson as the work progressively takes shape during the period of the exhibition.

We love a bit of hands on stuff in the high falootin halls of the NGV - good on em. wonder how many blocks have gone missing so far? It'll be hard to resist slipping one into the hml bag! We'll let you know...

The cubic structural evolution project 2004
National Gallery of Victoria
St Kilda Road
Melbourne City
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/
2 March – 13 May 2007