Pop Art exhibition's Beatles link pulls crowd http://www.harrogateadvertiser.net/magazine/Pop-Art-exhibitions-Beatles-link.5532317.jp
Published Date: 06 August 2009 A HARROGATE exhibition starring an artist who once lived and worked with a Beatle has had its run extended, writes Graham Chalmers. After a good response, We Are Pop, presented by RedHouse Originals in Harrogate, will now finish on Friday, August 21. Featured artists include Yorkshire-born Dudley Edwards who at the peak of the Swinging Sixties shared a house with Paul McCartney for six, heady months in 1967, a time of bells, beads, parties and Sgt Pepper. Proclaiming themselves the design collective BEV, the young trio of Edwards, David Vaughan and Douglas Binder quickly won a reputation in the burgeoning flower power movement for their swirling, colourful patterns. Soon they were drawn into the orbit of the Beatles. McCartney, in particular, was so impressed with the groundbreaking murals they'd done for furniture, cars and walls, he asked Binder and Edwards to paint his piano, one he still uses on tour to this day. We Are Pop takes place at the John Mackie Gallery on Cheltenham Mount. Visitors can see prints of some of Edwards' and BEV's work from that period, as well as pieces by Peter Blake and Andy Warhol and contemporary artists such as Banksy and Ezra. For more information, visit www.redhouseoriginals.co . --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sixties-L" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sixties-l?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
