One-of-a-kind, original artwork, 2025.

Signed and dated.

24.5 x 17cm.

Paper, PVA, thread.

One of 84 new hand-stitched collages, made for my recent exhibition at the Barbican Library in London. I used discarded magazines and the book ‘Civilisation’ by Kenneth Clark. First published by John Murray/BBC in 1969, this edition printed in 1971. Bought for 50p from a charity shop.

That’s the book to accompany the ancient TV series, responsible for my questionable early art education (didn’t include female artists). I turned each page (along with old museum magazines, and the like) into a collage.

‘Casper David Friedrich, The Wreck of the ‘Hope’. Kunsthalle, Hamburg’.

Mariá Bartuszová cleaning snow off the slide at the kindergarten on Sládkovičova Street in Revúca, Slovakia, 1970. From the article ‘A Futurist Form’ by Anke Kempkes. Photo: Estate of Maria Bartuszova/ Alison Jaques. Tate Etc, Autumn 2022, Issue 56.

Price includes UK postage, and a 5% donation to Arts Emergency.

Copyright: Alison Aye, 2025.