Still Waiting At The Pithead For Our Dead

Something my dad said as we watched the horrors of Grenfell unfold.

The letters were cut from these front pages.

The antimacassar was bought in a charity shop some years ago, that’s all I can say about it.

Towers 7

Made using these front pages, which I found on a train after the Grenfell Tower fire.

The red thread once belonged to my nana, who would not have approved of my knots.

The newspaper is hand-stitched to this paper, and then hand-stitched to this paper.

All of my artwork is individually numbered, this piece is 849.

Towers 6

 

 

It is made using these front pages, which I found on a train after the Grenfell Tower fire.

The red thread once belonged to my nana, who would not have approved of my knots.

The newspaper strips are hand-stitched to this paper, and then hand-stitched to this paper.

All of my artwork is individually numbered, this piece is 848.

Towers 4

 

It is made using this front page of the Metro newspaper, which I found on a train after the Grenfell Tower fire.

The red thread once belonged to my nana, who would not have approved of my knots.

The newspaper strips are hand-stitched to this paper, and then hand-stitched to this paper.

All of my artwork is individually numbered, this piece is 846.

Towers 3

Made using this front page of the Metro newspaper, which I found on a train the day after the Grenfell Tower fire.

The red thread once belonged to my nana, who would not have approved of my knots.

The newspaper strips are hand-stitched to this paper, and then hand-stitched to this paper using Trudi’s mother’s gorgeous white thread.

All of my artwork is individually numbered, this piece is 845.

Towers 1

Made using this front page of the Metro newspaper, which I found on a train the day after the Grenfell Tower fire.

The red thread once belonged to my nana, who would not have approved of my knots.

The newspaper strips are hand-stitched to this paper, and then hand-stitched to this paper using Trudi’s mother’s gorgeous white thread.

All of my artwork is individually numbered, this piece is 844.