Simply Kate Moss

       

Source: Vogue UK September 2010

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OUT AND ABOUT

hooly doolan!

You'll all have to excuse the bits and bobs nature of this post. Between the Film Festival, fabric flower making and visits to the Craft Cubed satellite event shows life seems a little chaotic this week! The Michael Doolan contribution to the 'Childhood' themed festival is a ginormous inflated toy train running into a teddy bear suspended above the Federation Square atrium. It's nothing if not impressive.

The hml ladies are more interested in Gemini Scorpio at the City library. Having had some experience filling these niches with our own work we are always curious to see what artists do in these curious little spaces. Antoung Nguyen  has taken a playful approach with funny arrangements of everyday objects. cool.

We are going to be at the official opening of the Craft Cubed festival tonight in the hallowed basement of CV, swing by and say hi. You can wish Beck a happy birthday, then she might not be so aware that this bouquet is over a month late. sigh.

You may remember I'd bought a sampler piece by the lovely Kristen Doran at the stitches and Craft show. well I never did get around to it so the fat quarter became flowers instead.again, sigh.
RAMONA

Keep walking…

Source: Elle Russia July 2010

P.S. Doesn’t it remind you of one of Kate Moss’ Harper’s Bazaar editorials?… Just in case you forgot which one I am talking about, here is a quick visual reminder.

FIRST PROJECT

rev your engines

It was with a great source of pride that my beloved was the instigator of Thom's first craft project. After collecting some car magazines, glue stick and scissors they set to on an epic decoupage project.

Thom had very fixed ideas about the design of the new garage for his matchbox car collection. Neither of these menfolk are known for the long attention spans, so I was mighty impressed that an hour later they had a masterpiece and new family heirloom.

Like all good home craft, it took a bit of time and patience. What a great way to pass a winters afternoon! RAMONA

SHOWS OF THE WEEK

outside the box
Craft Victoria launch their annual Craft Cubed Festival this week and even for those of us on the inside loop there seems to be a lot going on. This year the theme is Childhood and artists and makers have responded with objects and artwork that swings from the sublime to the mysterious.The ladies of HML are intrigued by the many satellite events that are going on. With staggered openings over the next month it's sure to be an invigorating time that will see us through 'til the end of winter. This week we'll be checking out two shows the first being at C3 Gallery at Abbotsford Convent (we know we plug this space all the time, but really what a dynamic roster of shows this space has had).

Drawing Number 1 brings together 6 artists using different media together to examine the mysteries of childhood -from imaginary friends, bad dreams and secret notes under the pillow. We'll be sure to wear our holly hobby pyjamas to this one.

Red Gallery in North Fitzroy is host to a new collaboration by artists Samantha Scott and Caroline Phillips. Scott uses materials like human hair and plant specimens to examine the difference between organic and non organic forms and Phillips uses industrial, prefab, and recycled materials to construct literally and deconstruct academically. We aren't sure what any of this has to do with Childhood but we are prepared to find out. An intrepid week for HML!!

Walk without purpose…

 

Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend!

LR

xxx

WORKSHOP OF THE WEEK

draw, cut, print, repeat...

Now I do have a BA in Textile Design, but its been a looooooooooooooong time since I was in a print room. A long time. And despite my many varied career deviations (street press maker, cafe owner, craft adviser and retailer) I have never really lost that hankering to make fabric. The fact that I moronically became a weave major during my degree instead of following my heart into printing has also needled like the proverbial side thorn for years. So. Last weekend I headed out to Harvest Textiles in Kensington to partake in a refresher course in silk screenery.

Presented with a jaw droppingly good view of the city through huge light filled windows and a print studio to die for I sighed to myself and realised I had come home to my happy place. The fact that I wassurrounded by equally happy people and being guided through the process by the lovely Lara Davies no doubt added to the positive vibes filling the room. I'd gone in with very set ideas about what I wanted to print, but we began the day drawing pictures of dried plants and seed pods, so my city landscape plans soon turned into some decidedly abstracted mid century botanicals. This actually turned out to be a great thing becuase to be honest I think it freed me up to play rather than commit to a pre-concieved design. Six hand cut stencils and a selection of pre mixed colours later, I set about printing, my body slowly remembering the motions of plonk, pull, lift, repeat.

Not all of the results were 'successful' but really, it was totally awesome to get a whole day to spend mucking about without interuptions from the architect and the maxmonster. And I think a couple of the things I finished up with were ok. Which was nice, because if it had been a complete disaster I may have had to curl up in the corner in shame after having outed my textile beginnings earlier on in the day. And to be honest I have to say that the competition was fierce - everyone's work was completely different and all of it was pretty amazing!

Here's me ignoring all advice (surprise, surprise) and pulling my own screen while looking ancient and haggered ... it had been a long long night with a sick boy the night before. Oh and  Emma I hope you don't mind my stealing your photo.

And here is everyone else hard at work at the long table... (again thanks Emma)

This Saturday we're back in the studio working on repeat patterns and printing a length of fabric. Of course today I ran out of time to go get some nice linen to print on, so I'll have to take a look through the fabric stash and see what I can come up with in the meantime. This may be the one occasion I am thankful that i've gotten around to bugger all sewing so far this year! Woo Hoo Bring on the weekend!!!

BECK