Rift

Hand-stitched collage using found newspapers, this magazine, and my nana’s thread.

It’s a collection of people whose clothes have something to say.

32.5cms x 120cms.

Click on the link to see details and credits for each section: One, Two, Three, Four and Five.

Or see a video of the finished piece, here.

All of my work is individually numbered. This piece is 876.

© Alison Sye, 2018. All images of my work are my copyright, and as such will never be reproduced in hard-print format (it goes completely against the grain of my work, I don’t add new stuff to the world, but use what is already here), or in digital format without permission. Credit must always be given to myself and the photographers involved.

Rift, Section 5

 

This is the fifth, and final, section of Rift, a hand-stitched collage made from discarded newspapers and magazines.

Eric Bristow, the Crafty Cockney. Died on 5th April, 2018. Cut from the London Evening Standard, 6th April 2018. Getty Images.

Background: Richard Serra with Abstract Slavery (1974) in his studio, New York 1974. Cut from an article in this magazine. Photo by Aad Hoogendoorn, text by Neil Cox.

Click here to see Sections One, Two, Three and Four.

Or see a video of the finished piece, here.

© Alison Sye, 2018. All images of my work are my copyright, and as such will never be reproduced in hard-print format (it goes completely against the grain of my work, I don’t add new stuff to the world, but use what is already here), or in digital format without permission. Credit must always be given to myself and the photographers involved.

Rift, Section 4

This is the fourth section of Rift, a hand-stitched collage made from discarded newspapers and this magazine.

From left to right:

Unnamed person at the Grenfell memorial service at St. Paul’s Cathedral. Cut from an article by Nicholas Cecil and John Dunne, in the London Evening Standard, 14.12.17. The photographer is possibly Jeremy Selwyn.

Theresa May at the Maidenhead Easter Charity Run. Cut from the Guardian, 31.3.18. Photograph by Mark Kerrison/Alamy.

Click on the link to see details and credits for each section: One, Two, Three, and Five.

Or see a video of the finished piece, here.

© Alison Sye, 2018. All images of my work are my copyright, and as such will never be reproduced in hard-print format (it goes completely against the grain of my work, I don’t add new stuff to the world, but use what is already here), or in digital format without permission. Credit must always be given to myself and the photographers involved.

 

Rift, Section 3

From left to right:

Unnamed protester cut from an article by Mark Wallace. Getty Images. The i newspaper, 24.4.18.

Sabika Sheikh, a Pakistani student who joined Santa Fe High School on a foreign exchange scholarship. Her body was flown back to Pakistan on 23rd May, 2018. Cut from the Times, 21.5.18. Article by Will Pavia. Family photograph.

Queen Elizabeth II. Cut from the London Evening Standard, 20.3.18. Photographer uncredited.

Danielle Henry as Annie Kenney in Votes For Women at the New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-Under-Lyme. The play was written by Elizabeth Robins, an American actor/writer who moved to England to restart her life after the death of her husband in 1888. It was adapted and directed by Theresa Heskins. Cut from a review by Natalie Haynes in the Guardian, 14.3.18. The photo is either by Andrew Billington, Jamie Orchard Lisle or Jon Rowley. Difficult to tell.

The images have been hand-stitched to an article from this magazine.

Click on the link to see details and credits for each section: One, Two, Three, Four and Five.

Or see a video of the finished piece, here.

© Alison Sye, 2018. All images of my work are my copyright, and as such will never be reproduced in hard-print format (it goes completely against the grain of my work, I don’t add new stuff to the world, but use what is already here), or in digital format without permission. Credit must always be given to myself and the photographers involved.

Rift, Section 2

From left to right:

Unnamed demonstrator at a march for more liberal abortion rights across Ireland. Dublin. Photo by Clodagh Kilcoyne/ Reuters. Cut from the Guardian, 6.3.18. Article by Harriet Sherwood.

Deborah Harry. Cut from the Observer 17.9.17. Getty Images.

Unnamed protester, against the misuse of data by Facebook, outside Portcullis House, London. Cut from the Guardian, 27.4.18. Article by Jim Waterson. Photo by Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA.

Explanations for the next three people can be found, here. (And also information on the Richard Serra article).

Background: Quadruple Rift by Richard Serra, 2017. Cut from an article in this magazine. Photo by Aad Hoogendoorn, text by Neil Cox.

Click on the link to see details and credits for each section: One, Three, Four and Five.

Or see a video of the finished piece, here.

© Alison Sye, 2018. All images of my work are my copyright, and as such will never be reproduced in hard-print format (it goes completely against the grain of my work, I don’t add new stuff to the world, but use what is already here), or in digital format without permission. Credit must always be given to myself and the photographers involved.

Rift, Section 1

Left: Unnamed demonstrator in Tunis. ‘Anger is growing over the legal process against those responsible for killings in 2011’. Photo by Youssef Boudla/Reuters. Cut from the Guardian, 25.1.18. Article by Emma Graham-Harrison.

Centre: Ariana Grande. The Manchester Arena attack was one year ago this week. Cut from the London Evening Standard, 9.3.18. Photographer uncredited.

Right: Unnamed supporter of Goodluck Jonathan. ‘Cambridge Analytica staff, paid to influence the 2015 election, say stolen data on the then president’s main rival was given to their campaign.’ Cut from the Guardian, 22.3.18. Article by Carole Cadwalladr. Photo by Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters.

Background: Quadruple Rift by Richard Serra, 2017. Cut from an article in this magazine. Photo by Aad Hoogendoorn, text by Neil Cox.

Click on the link to see details and credits for each section:  Two, Three, Four and Five.

Or see a video of the finished piece, here.

© Alison Sye, 2018. All images of my work are my copyright, and as such will never be reproduced in hard-print format (it goes completely against the grain of my work, I don’t add new stuff to the world, but use what is already here), or in digital format without permission. Credit must always be given to myself and the photographers involved.