your face, your mum

Part of everyday communication with a teenager - so I thought I'd make her something to remember me by when she goes to Uni

Cross-stitched on antique white fabric, 14 count.

Framed in 6x6 ins gilt frames

Your mother was a hamster ...

Inspired by my niece's (and daughter's) love of all things Python!

Gangnam Style

Yep!  Got caught up in the Gangnam craze too!

Cross-stitched on antique white fabric, 14 count.
Framed 10x7 ins

Cross-stitched on antique white fabric, 14 count.
Framed 5x7 ins

Shakespeare quotes

Looking out for nice, and unusual Shakespeare quotes.

Used this one for Christmas gifts for a sister, a niece and an aunt - it works on all levels!

Cross-stitched on antique white fabric, 14 count.

Framed in cream, 7x5 ins.

Shakespearean Insults

Whilst visiting Stratford upon Avon & the Shakespeare house in September, we came across some badges and fridge magnets with Shakespearean insults on - which we duly bought!  I thought it might be fun to cross-stitch some. 

All cross-stitched on antique white fabric, 14 count.

Framed in black, 7x5 ins.

'Fountain' - Marcel Duchamp

125 hours stitching time
over 21,000 stitches


Finished piece framed 
12" x 16"

Fountain is the most famous of Duchamp's so-called ready made sculptures ordinary manufactured objects designated by the artist as works of art. It epitomises the assault on convention and accepted notions of art for which Duchamp became known. 


http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marcel_Duchamp.jpg
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of an original two-dimensional work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason because its copyright has expired.

The original, which is now lost, consisted of a standard urinal, laid flat on its back and signed with a pseudonym, 'R. Mutt 1917'. The 'Fountain' we would see on display to day is one of a small number of replicas which Duchamp authorised in 1964, based on a photograph of the original by 
Alfred Stieglitz.

http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=26850&tabview=text

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


http://artistsopenshop.wordpress.com/
http://artistsopenshop.wordpress.com/artists/leona-angus/

Blek le Rat's 'Last Tango in Paris"

Approx 35 hours work

Framed in black with double mount
Finished size 12"x16"

Gallery 26@Littlehampton

Gallery 26 is running exhibitions, workshops and events in Littlehampton, in conjunction with the Arts in Action Network,  a partnership between Arun District Council, Inspire Leisure and Littlehampton Town Council to promote the arts in Littlehampton.

Gallery 26 will be using Arun Ideas Shop, Beach Road, Littlehampton from 1st April to 30th April, where I am exhibiting photography, cross stitch and a film piece and co-running a photographic project.




Currently exhibiting

Karl Marx

Approx 40 hours work

Framed in black box frame with black mount

Finished size 11"x14"





























Influences

http://www.redmolotov.com

http://leftclickblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-told-you-so.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/binaryape/2873634346/

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")

Worthing Open Houses 2011

Exhibiting cross stitch in this years Open Houses with Gallery 26

http://worthingopenhouses.com

http://worthingopenhouses.com/leona-angus/

http://www.gallery26.org.uk

VW camper van

VW camper vans seem to be quite popular at the moment - my niece is in to them - so I thought this might be a good idea.

It was quite hard to get the sizing right  - and ended up doing this single threaded on size 22 fabric - too fine!

The hardest part was getting the logo right at this size - obviously larger sizes have greater detail - but can become too laborious to stitch.  It takes a while to get the sizing right - I usually look at 16 stitches per inch, which is also my preferred stitching size at the moment.

Framed size 10" x 10"

Banksy Balloon Girl

Enjoy doing this one - very quick and very effective.

Framed size 11" x 14"

Creating Cate

My niece - from pic to stencil to chart... and eventually to finished piece - approx 5 weeks!

Commissions undertaken

1.  picture

2.  stencil

3.  cross stitch grid

4.  mounted & framed 11x14

Banksy stitching up on copyright

the maid

stitching detail

flower bomber

stitching detail

Completed Nov 2009 (approx 10 weeks work)
Finished size 25"x25"(each)

I did try to get permission to be able to do these commercially but Banksy's agent said no!  So they sit on my lounge wall - I enjoy them!

It is an interesting argument tho!  Street art cannot be copyrighted, and the images are the intellectual property of Banksy - that I have no argument with!  I have been given to understand that Banksy doesn't grant copyright licenses.  He himself has said he doesn't believe in copyright -

(from the front of Banksy's Wall & Piece),  I can't reproduce these commercially but the markets and street sellers around Brighton & Worthing sell prints of Banksy's work by their hundreds - maybe the secret is in the not asking, just do it!



Home Sweet Home, Banksy's Bristol, The Unofficial Guide by Steve Wright, says

he is not claiming copyright but producing for profit images that are "the intellectual property of the artist known as Banksy"!

Any further explanations greatly received!

the beatles stitched up

stitching detail

stitching detail

The Beatles - framed £150

Finished size 20"x16"