The Audience, June 2025 (152 - 181)

March 22, 2026

Below are the newspaper articles from which my June 2025 faces were cut. It’s the actual newspaper that I’ve stitched, not reproductions. The information in the articles may be fabricated. I (mostly) use the Metro and London Standard newspapers because they are free. I couldn’t afford to make this piece if I bought a more reputable publication every day.

*The photo credits are as they appear in the articles from which the faces were cut. For the record, I don’t accept the name of a company as a photography credit. There was an actual person behind the camera. If you are that person, or know them, please give me a shout.

**Day 152: Anna Cash Davidson** Metro 2.6.25. Photo by Mac McNeill.

**Day 153: Ginger** Metro 2.6.25. SWNS*.

**Day 154: Bernard Mongan, c1993 - 2025** Metro 3.6.25. Article by Katie Dickinson. Photo uncredited.

**Day 155: Owen Cooper** Metro 4.6.25. Photo uncredited.

**Day 156: Abiyah Yasharahyalah, c2017 - 2020** Metro 5.6.25. Photo uncredited.

**Day 157: Blaise Metreweli** Metro 19.6.25. Photo uncredited.

**Day 158: Pamela Anderson** Metro 18.6.25. Pamela Hanson/ Harper’s Bazaar UK.

**Day 159: Estelle** Metro 17.6.25. Interview by Danni Scott. Photo uncredited.

**Day 160: Coco Gauff** Metro 9.6.25. Photo uncredited.

**Day 161: Maisha Mahfuza** Metro 11.6.25. Photo by Will Ireland/ Pinpep.

**Day 162: Sly Stone, 1943 - 2025** Metro 11.9.25. Getty*.

**Day 163: Brian Wilson, 1942 - 2025** Metro 12.6.25. Photo uncredited.

**Day 164: Jamie Chadwick** Metro 13.6.25. Interview by Rachel Corcoran.

**Day 165: Harris Yullin, 1937 - 2025** Metro 13.6.25. Photo uncredited.

**Day 166: Sumeet Sabharwal, 1969 - 2025** Metro 17.6.25. Photo uncredited.

**Day 167: Emily Eavis** Metro 17.6.25. Photo uncredited.

**Day 168: Andy Pope** Metro 17.6.25. Photo uncredited.

**Day 169: Sam Innes** Metro 18.6.25. Photo uncredited.

**Day 170: Unnamed prehistoric woman** London Standard 19.6.25. Photo uncredited.

**Day 171: Kaja Kallas** Metro 19.6.25. AFP*.

**Day 172: Pik-Sen Lim, 1944 - 2025** Metro 19.6.25. Photo uncredited.

**Day 173: Wincey Willis, 1948 - 2024** Metro 20.6.25. Photo uncredited.

**Day 174: David ‘Syd’ Lawrence, 1964 - 2025** Metro 23.6.25. Photo uncredited.

**Day 175: Darren Miller** Metro 23.6.25. Photo uncredited.

**Day 176: Alessandro Coatti, 1986 - 2025** Metro 25.6.25. Photo uncredited.

**Day 177: Shubhanshu Shukla** London Standard 26.6.25. Photo uncredited.

**Day 178: Lee Jung-jae** Metro 27.6.25. Photo uncredited.

**Day 179: Darrell Harris, 2008 - 2025** Metro 27.6.25. Photo uncredited.

**Days 180 + 181: Georgia Barrington and Daisy Hope** Metro 30.6.25. Photo uncredited.

The Audience, March 2025 (60 - 90)

March 22, 2026

Below are the newspaper articles from which my March 2025 faces were cut. It’s the actual newspaper that I’ve stitched, not reproductions. The information in the articles may be fabricated. I (mostly) use the Metro and London Standard newspapers because they are free. I couldn’t afford to make this piece if I bought a more reputable publication every day.

**Days 60 + 61: Gene Hackman, 1930 - 2025 + Betsy Arakawa, 1959 - 2025** Observer 2.3.25. Article by Dani Anguiano. Photo by Mark J Terrill/ AP.

**Day 62: Angie Stone, 1961 - 2025** Metro 3.3.25. Photo uncredited.

**Day 63: James Harrison, c1963 - 2025** Metro 4.3.25. Photo uncredited.

**Day 64: Louise Hunt, c2000 - 2025** Metro 5.3.25. Article by Brooke Davies. Photo uncredited.

**Day 65: Robert Pattinson** London Standard 6.3.25. Cinematography by Darius Khondji/ Warner Bros. As Mickey Barnes in the film 'Mickey 17', directed by Bong Joon Ho, produced by Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Dooho Choi. Based on the novel 'Mickey7' by Edward Ashton.

**Day 66: Poppy Atkinson, c2015 - 2025** Metro 7.3.25. Photo uncredited.

**Day 67: Abdulrazak Gurnah** London Standard 13.3.25. Photo uncredited. India Block reviews his new book 'Theft'.

**Day 68: Heidi Levi** Metro 13.3.25. Photo: SWNS*.

**Day 69: Gina Martin** Metro 10.3.25. Article by Luke Alsford. Photo: Getty*.

**Day 70: Franco Villani** Metro 11.3.25. Photo uncredited.

**Day 71: Unnamed man, Pakistan** Metro 13.3.25. Article by Rasool Dawar. Photo: AP*.

**Day 72: Claudiu Carol-Kondor, c1983 - 2025** Metro 13.3.25. Article by Katie Boyden. Photo uncredited.

**Day 73: Lizzo** Metro 14.3.25. Photo: Getty*.

**Day 74: Unnamed person** i 14.3.25. Article by Cahal Milmo. Photo: Getty*.

**Day 75: Unnamed girl, London** Metro 17.3.25. Photo: Shutterstock/ Reuters*.

**Day 76: Rachel Zegler** Metro 20.3.25. Photo: Disney*.

**Day 77: Carol Clark** Metro 18.3.25. Photo uncredited.

**Day 78: Unnamed woman** Metro 19.3.25. Photo: AP*.

**Day 79: Suni Williams** Metro 20.3.25. Photo: Uncredited*.

**Day 80: Tuppy Owens, 1944 - 2025** i 22.3.25. Photo uncredited.

**Day 81: David Allvin** i 22.3.25. Article by Euan O'Byrne Mulligan. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/ Getty.

**Day 82: Nikol Haranskyi, c2019 - 2025** Metro 24.3.25. Article by Luke Alsford. Photo uncredited.

**Day 83: Ekram Imamoglu** Metro 25.3.25. Article by Huseyin Hayatsever. Photo uncredited.

**Days 84 + 85: Hideko and Iwao Hakamata** Metro 27.3.25. Photo: AFP*.

**Day 86: Kim Kardashian** Metro 27.3.25. Photo uncredited.

**Day 87: Ron Walters** Metro 27.3.25. Article by Ed Chatterton. Photo: SWNS*.

**Day 88: Russell Tovey** London Standard 27.3.25. Photo by Dave Benett. **Day 89: Derek Jarman, 1942 - 1994** London Standard 27.3.25. Photo uncredited.

Day 89 alternative - I lost one of my Derek Jarmans, so I used a drawing my daughter did of me when she was a child.

**Day 90: Mitchell Feldman** Metro 21.3.25. Photo uncredited.

Virginia

February 23, 2026

Hand stitched paper to cloth collage, 2022.

30 x 26cm, unframed.

Discarded paper (cut from newspapers during January 2022) hand-stitched to Dad’s shirt. Sewn, using Judith Cash’s old thread, to acid-free watercolour paper from a charity shop.

Face: Virginia Guiffre. Getty*. Metro 27.1.22. Article by Dominic Yeatman about Virginia Guiffre accusing Andrew Mountbatten Windsor of sexually abusing her when she was 17, and her lawyer saying, ‘We look forward to confronting Prince Andrew with his denials and attempts to blame Ms Guiffre for her own abuse’. The Windsors later paid £12m for an out-of-court settlement. In 2025 she took her own life, at the age of 41. “I am making it publicly known that in no way, shape or form am I suicidal. I have made this known to my therapist and doctor. If something happens to me – for the sake of my family do not let this go away and help me to protect them. Too many evil people want to see me quieted.” Virginia Guiffre.

Red military uniform with medals and hat: Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. Getty*. iPaper 28.1.22. Article by David Parsley and Joe Duggan about how Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s legal team are attempting to have the above case thrown out of court on the grounds that Virginia Giuffre is a resident of Australia. In order for the case to take place in the US, at least one of the people involved must live there.

Green-sleeved arm: Novak Djokovic. AFP via Getty*. Metro 10.1.22. Article by David Gurney about the tennis player being kicked out of Australia, and the Open, for his refusal to get vaccinated against Covid-19.

Straight leg: From a photo Madonna posted on Instagram*, showing her bruised leg, amongst other things. Metro 14.1.22. Article, speculating about how the bruise was acquired and how ‘loose and limber’ Madonna looks at 63, by Tom Stichbury.

Hand with dog: Boris Johnson. PA/ Reuters*. Metro 25.1.22. Article by Joel Taylor about a birthday party held for Boris Johnson during the first lockdown, despite rules banning indoor social events. It showed a picture of BJ jogging with his dog, Dilyn.

Rest of body: Jude Hill as Buddy in ‘Belfast’, a 2021 film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh, which follows a young boy's childhood in Belfast at the beginning of ‘The Troubles’ in 1969. Cinematography by Hans Zambarloukos. Film advert. iPaper 21.1.22.

The articles are below. Some of them are hard to read. Apologies.

Getty*. iPaper 28.1.22. Article by David Parsley and Joe Duggan.

Getty*. Metro 27.1.22. Article by Dominic Yeatman. Sorry for the bad photo quality, I no longer have the newspaper.

Getty*. Metro 27.1.22. Article by Dominic Yeatman.

AFP via Getty*. Metro 10.1.22. Article by David Gurney.

PA/ Reuters*. Metro 25.1.22. Article by Joel Taylor.

Cinematography by Hans Zambarloukos. Film advert. iPaper 21.1.22.

Unseated

August 27, 2023

Made as a response to Claire Mort’s Brave Pants project.

I like cutting Picasso, and I thought it would be fun to pull Fernande Olivier out of that chair and give her some knickers. She looked so miserable.

An artist in her own right, Olivier was the daughter of a married man and ‘his mistress’. Raised by an abusive aunt, who arranged her marriage, she fled to Paris at nineteen, changing her name so her husband couldn’t find her.

Picasso (“Each time I leave a woman, I should burn her”) used to lock her in the studio.

54. Unseated, 2022.

Hand-stitched paper/canvas collage.

46 x 37.5cms, framed*

Body cut from an image of Femme Assise (Fernande Olivier) by Pablo Picasso, 1908. Oil on canvas. 150 x 100cms. The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (below).

Big pants cut from an image of Kate Moss wearing a leotard by Julien Fournié. Mert and Marcus for Paris Vogue, 2011.

Feet of Kate Moss. Shoe designer unknown (any help much appreciated). Mert and Marcus for W magazine, 2005.

*Framed by Ming, 29 Chatterton Road, Bromley. Oak and 99% UV glass.

Please note that I do not reproduce physical images to stitch, but use already printed materials. The paper comes from discarded books, newspapers, magazines, calendars and the like. Most of the books I cut are beyond repair, the rest are beyond my respect.

I Have No Thoughts On This Matter

August 26, 2023

I Have No Thoughts On This Matter, 2020.

Hand-stitched textile.

35cms x 35cms, unframed.

Private Collection.

It’s about ‘good girls’ putting up and shutting up.

‘I have no thoughts on this matter’ was my mantra during 2020. At the age of 53, I had moved back to my childhood home, sharing a bed with my mother, in what turned out to be the final year of her life. I left my husband and kids and went 300 miles north. A place where I am undervalued and underestimated. Everybody else's time is more valuable than my own. It was expected of me, and I did it, losing both my jobs, pretending it didn’t matter.

For the 18 months I was there, hand stitching kept me on the right side of sane.

As always, the materials are recycled.

A friend was binning the tea towel, describing it as embarrassing, the way the middle-classes do.

The orange and blue are my husband’s old clothes.

The blue, a shirt I remember him wearing at my cousin’s wedding. I was a Bo-Peep inspired bridesmaid. The evening cèilidh was a riot. We laughed and danced our socks off, except Mr S, who sat on the side-lines, unable to make a fool of himself.

The orange, boxer shorts I bought on Christmas Eve 1991, from the Next near Charing Cross Station, London.

The red fabric, used for my signature, is an old National Portrait Gallery uniform. I worked there for 12 years. Undervalued and underestimated. The date next to it was cut from Amnesty International Magazine, Issue 206.

I Have No Thoughts On This Matter is now available as a limited edition print. The original was bought by a French woman, which I took as the greatest of compliments.

Photo by Ian Bruton.