Thursday, 7 August 2014

Artist Stocks the Shelves of a London Corner Store with 4,000 Hand-Stitched Felt Products









British artist Lucy Sparrow has converted an entire abandoned corner shop in Bethnal Green, east London, into a temporary art exhibition titled The Corner Shop featruring 4,000 hand-sewn felt products. Chips, magazines, candy, frozen dinners, and even the cash register have been faithfully rendered in fabric, a process that took Sparrow about seven months to complete and began with a successful plea for help on Kickstarter. The shop is open to visitors every day this month, and almost all of the items are available for purchase online

2 comments:

  1. That's a great use of a building that would otherwise just add to blight. Commendable!

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    1. My first thought was 'Shoplifters!'...Then I caught myself on

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