SHOW/S OF THE WEEK

the kids are alright
We know that we left you all terribly uninformed about this years Fashion Festival - it's hard to engage with cutting edge design when your own outfitting consists of pyjamas and a box of tissues. All better now! So this week the ladies of hml will be trotting off to some excellent shows. First cab off the rank is Hiro Tsuri at Bus whos thousand can project looks absolutely amazing
Fantastic comic book artiste Mandy Ord is gracing the walls at Imp Gallery...

And we aren't 100% sure what's going on with the work of Alasdair McLuckie and Belle Bassin - but we love Utopian Slumps so we'll check that out too.

SHOW OF THE WEEK

Big Wheel keeps on turning

Managed to crawl out of death bed (read influenza) to remind you all that Beck Wheeler's very fine exhibition opens today at UBER Gallery in St Kilda tonight. Long time readers will know that the ladies of hml are HUGE fans. We won't make it as we are in quarantine. It's on until the 30th so if Il Doctore give us the all clear we should make it. Excuse the use of the royal 'we' . Beck is fine. Ramona is not.

change of season people. its a demon.

SHOW/S OF THE WEEK

Having seen the work in person, the ladies of hml can say that you should promise to all get along to see Anna Davern's show Nukk at Seventh Gallery. The combination of sculptural objects and jewllery pieces is really generous and interesting. The above work actually appears in a shadow box - like a secret community huddle. Congrats Ms Davern!
Also open this week is new work by Sophie Knezic. A Pocket Full of Stones is on at the Area Contemporary Art Space Inc (rear level 1/230 brunswick street enter via St David Street). This is Knezic's MFA work and after her amazing Washi exhibition at Craft Victoria a few years ago we are intrigued to see what direction her work has taken. Plus we've never been to this space and you know how we love an obscure art venue!
Those of you in the Brunswick area might see us loitering at the group show Trace featuring printmaking, textile design, drawing and mixed media by four qld artists (Anne Smith, Haya Cohen,Virginia Miller, and Sonia G Peters). We love seeing work of interstaters and Counihan Gallery is one of the best city council galleries in Australia.

Doesnt it feel like the year has finally begun?

progress of the week

kindling
Interesting week dear readers. Ramona received confirmation that she is having an exhibition in July at Imp Gallery (above Greville St Bookstore). Meanwhile back at the hml ranch there had been much discussion about wood. Then this magical pile of offcuts appeared in the dreamy light-industrial outskirts of Prestonia. Wicker basket always at the ready (such a dork) Ramona went a little nutso...Who knows where all this might lead...

VEHICLE OF THE WEEK

carving up the road

You know we love our vehicles here at HML, and given the woody way we're working this week we had to let you all know about american arteeest Lee Stoetzel. After all he is one of the ladies favourites... and a lot more fun than Ricky Swallow. This particular homage to the summer of love was part of an exhibition at the Mixed Greens Gallery in our spiritual home - New York City last year. The show included a giant wooden book, old Mac computers rendered in cypress, and, as seen here, VW Bus and the all american chopper. Now if only he'd make the ladies a boogie van we'd be happy.

craft find of the week

JUICY FRUITS
Speaking of curvaceously carved wooden forms...
Beck has accumulated quite a bit of antique teak in her day, but these are the 'pick of the bunch' (groan). Actually if you eliminate the mini apple and pear salt/pepper shakers, you could almost use this as a HML portrait... made even more hilarious because Ramona, as you all probably know, hates fruit.

SHOW OF THE WEEK

Pink Floyd

The new show by Emily Floyd is called Temple of the Female Eunuch. We aren't sure if this is because Wood is Good was too simple a title for Anna Schwartz or because (as the accompanying text would suggest) Floyd has taken inspiration from Germaine Greer. We suspect it's the latter.
We love the oversized wood block 1970's play time aesthetic. The show warms up this usually sterile space. You'll have to brave the formidable front of house staff but it is well worth it.
The crossover between art and craft is always being blathered about so we won't go on about it here. Suffice to say we think dear readers you'll love this show. A good one to see after the Steiner/Beuys installation at the NGV:I...

show runs until march 1.