Monday, August 11, 2014

Eat Your Heart Out Izabella Kaminska: "Artist stocks entire corner shop with goods hand-made from FELT"

Ms. Kaminska demonstrates actual skill in the fine arts:

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In the interpretive arts (sculpture category):

This is Joseph. He is a well known commodity forecaster.
 

And decorative arts, including the technically demanding felt division:
3) Stores of water – receptacles – are invented.

 The parable of water

But I'm not sure she is Daily Mail material:

  • Lucy Sparrow, 28, form London funded project through Kickstarter
  • Aimed to raise £2,000 - but ended up with more than £10,500
  • The Cornershop is open throughout August and everything is on sale
A brand new grocery store complete with everyday goods such as fruit, milk and biscuits has just opened in London.

So far, so run-of-the-mill, right? But everything is not as it might at first appear: those purchasing perishables for dinner will be disappointed - as everything's made from felt.
The Cornershop, in Bethnal Green, east London, is the brainchild of large-scale artist Lucy Sparrow. 

The pop-up shop features everything from huggable ready meals and squeezable confectionery to stitched felt newspapers, ice lollies and oven chips - and even a felt pricing gun....MORE
Various brands of biscuits and lager sit on the shelves at artist Lucy Sparrow's felt corner shop