Exhibition dates: 18th – 30th July 2011 at
Malcolm Poynter’s pop art style employs the use of comics, cowboys, pin-ups, toys and cheap advertising to freshen up and elevate needlework for a more contemporary art market. This love of kitsch, found in American comics, pound stores and girlie magazines has contributed to his style; a combination of the traditional and the unexpected.
He observes things with a humorous and ironic eye and seeks to re-address cheap and mass produced iconic imagery into a context where it doesn’t usually belong.
He now produces paintings, drawings, 3-Dimensional constructions and a few years ago began to rediscover embroidery, a medium he feels deserves more consideration as a fine art rather than as a craft:
“Cushions are kids stuff…..my embroideries are going where no embroideries have gone before…They are rough and tough and full of spunk!”††Malcolm Poynter
