'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