Artists Open Shop, Guildbourne Centre, Worthing

The Artists Open Shop is a pop-up shop project in the Guildbourne Centre in Worthing, West Sussex organised by Hazel Imbert and Sarah Sepe


The shop is open this year from Saturday 28 May to Sunday 3 July.  I have been invited to exhibit cross stitch here


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Roy Lichtenstein

This was finished in October 2010 and I have um'd and ahh'd about putting it up here mainly because Lichtenstein wanted to make his work look machine produced.  The use of benday dots and primary colours lend well the images to cross stitch, and the use of cross stitch reintroduces the handmadeness of the images.

By reproducing them in this way, do they go against the Lichtenstein's wishes or do they take on a postmodernist interpretation of the artist's work?

This represents about 80 hours work.
Framed size 20" x  16"

The Melody Haunts my Reverie (silkscreen 1965).  (Original image 24"x30")