Architect John Wardle has long been a champion of the role of craft within buildings – enjoying the skill of a maker and often finding ways to push that skill to new levels of creative expression. He has talked to me often about Simon Lloyd who I had never met until a chance encounter at the current exhibition at Heide Museum. They have collaborated – working with 25 makers across regional Victoria, Hobart and Melbourne – to produce exquisite objects and furniture pieces which have then been expertly placed within the context of the 1963 designed house by McGlashan Everist– Heide ll. Each piece, or collection of objects, finds an uncannily perfect position with the interior indicating a clear sympathy of form and materiality. In addition selected items are for sale!
‘Relatively Useful’ opened March 12 and will be on display at Heide Museum in Bulleen, Melbourne until April 3. Selected works are on sale to the general public.
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