Hand-stitched paper and cloth collage. Made 2024-25.

76 × 68 cm, unframed.

I have documented the year 2024 by hand-stitching 366 newspaper faces to napkins. It’s the actual newspaper that I’ve stitched, not reproductions.

It records Luke Littler winning the Darts World Championship at the age of 16, Alan Bates taking on the Post Office, and Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell winning Strictly, to name but a few. For a full list of ‘sitters’, and related newspaper articles, see here.

This is a one-off original artwork.

Price includes tracked delivery and 5% (after postage and transaction fee deductions) donation to Arts Emergency. UK only.

Copyright: Alison Aye, 2025.