Three Hands will be part of LUMINOUS, a collection of works by ArtCan artists.
The Hare & Hounds, 181 Upper St, London N1 1RQ
20th April - 19th July
PV 6 - 8pm, 29th April

Three Hands Who doesn't need an extra...

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The Audience 2026, Days 1 - 90 That's January, February and March. Flipping Eck, I'm on track!

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Just incase you are waiting for my monthly email with bated breath, didn’t manage it last night and probably not tonight either

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Without Fear Or Favour It’s about misogyny, obvs. And the Epstein Files...

I finished it...
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Cyrille Regis - A Tale of Two Nations YouTube video by OutRegis TV

Highly recommend ‘Cyrille Regis - A Tale of Two Nations’ , made by his son and daughter @michregis and @mrrobsonregis last year. Director: Jérémie Magar. Producer: Barcha Bauer. Coproduction: Cinquillo Films & France-Télévisions, Guyane-la-1ère
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158 newspaper faces stitched to cloth

158 newspaper faces stitched to cloth

Slow but steady progress with ‘The Audience 2025’ (I didn’t manage to finish last year’s one)
Newspaper hand-stitched to discarded tablecloth

I’ve stitched 158 ‘sitters’ of 365, so far, but haven’t documented beyond the end of February here.

Day 70 Johannes Radebe Dancer and choreographer, currently playing Lola in Kinky Boots Cut from the iPaper 14.3.26 Kate Green/ Getty

70 newspapers faces stitched to a sheet

Day 70
Johannes Radebe
Dancer and choreographer, currently playing Lola in Kinky Boots
Cut from the iPaper 14.3.26
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At the age of 14, Nadia Comăneci ‘scored seven 10s in Montreal (1976). Before her, no olympic gymnast had received one’.

‘Little Miss Perfect’ by David Walsh, July 1976. Cut from ‘The Sporting Century’, edited by Alan English. The Times Newspapers Ltd. Published by HarperCollins/ Willow (77-85 Fulham Palace Road, London W6) 1999. Printed and bound in Great Britain by Bath Press Ltd. Designed by Paul Calver and Roger Hammond. ISBN: 0-7230-1044-7. Further acknowledgements to Jeremy Bayston, Lawrence Smith, John Smith, Julian Osbaldstone, Clare Harrison and Thomas Cussans.

At the age of 14, Nadia Comăneci ‘scored seven 10s in Montreal (1976). Before her, no olympic gymnast had received one’.

‘Afterwards they asked her why she didn’t smile more’.

‘Little Miss Perfect’ by David Walsh, July 1976. Cut from ‘The Sporting Century’, by Alan English. Times Newspapers

Love that

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Cut from ‘Infamous Crimes That Shook The World’ Poebus/BPC Publishing, 1973 and Macdonald/ Black Cat Publishing (1 New Fetter Lane, London EC4A 1AR) 1989. Printed and bound in Hungary by Novotrade/ Egyetemi Press. ISBN: 0-7481-0260-4. Photographer uncredited.

Peggy Satterlee ‘teenage floozie’, 1926 - 2005.

In 1942, two underage girls, Betty Hansen and Peggy Satterlee, accused Errol Flynn of statutory rape. The trial took place in 1943, and Flynn was acquitted.

Cut from ‘Infamous Crimes That Shook The World’ Poebus/BPC Publishing, 1973

An illustration for Punch Magazine (22nd September, 1888) by John Tenniel (1820 - 1914) mocking police attempts to catch the Ripper. Engraving by Joseph Swain (1820 - 1909) or one of his assistants. Mary Evans Picture Library. Cut from ‘London… The Sinister Side’ by Steve Jones. Tragical History Tours/ Wicked Publications (222 Highbury Road, Nottingham NG6 9FE) 1986. Typeset and printed in Great Britain by J.W. Brown Ltd., Darwin Press (77a Blackheath Road, London SE10 8PD). ISBN: 1-870000-04-8.

An illustration for Punch Magazine (22nd September, 1888) by John Tenniel (1820 - 1914) mocking police attempts to catch the Ripper. Engraving by Joseph Swain (1820 - 1909) or one of his assistants. Mary Evans Picture Library. Cut from ‘London… The Sinister Side’ by Steve Jones. Tragical History Tours/ Wicked Publications (222 Highbury Road, Nottingham NG6 9FE) 1986. Typeset and printed in Great Britain by J.W. Brown Ltd., Darwin Press (77a Blackheath Road, London SE10 8PD). ISBN: 1-870000-04-8.

An illustration for Punch Magazine (22nd September, 1888) by John Tenniel (1820 - 1914) mocking police attempts to catch the Ripper. Engraving by Joseph Swain (1820 - 1909) or one of his assistants. Mary Evans Picture Library. I’m
Cut from ‘London… The Sinister Side’ by Steve Jones.

Baby Prince Andrew* with the legs of unnamed workers** in a Kent hopfield, 1927.

*Cut from The Country Life Book of the Royal Silver Jubilee by Patrick Montague-Smith, Hamlyn 1976. Camera Press.

**Independent Eye: A Century of Photographs, Roger Hudson. Hulton Getty Collection. Sutton, 1998

The foot is cut from the preceding photo and stitched to cloth

‘Outside (the Miss World Contest, Albert Hall, London, 1971) women’s libbers protest at what they regard as the voyeuristic exploitation of the meat market taking place within’. It Photo by Chris Djukanovic. Cut from ‘An Independent Eye: A Century of Photographs’ by Roger Hudson. Hulton Getty Picture Collection & The Independent. Sutton Publishing, Gloucester, 1998.

Following on from yesterday, here are the credits for Raquel’s ‘women’s libber’s’ feet.

‘Outside (the Miss World Contest, Albert Hall, London, 1971) women’s libbers protest’.

Photo by Chris Djukanovic. Cut from ‘An Independent Eye: A Century of Photographs’ by Roger Hudson.

A work of art

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Good luck to anyone waiting for RA Summer Show results today.

Noted

Unnamed workers in a Kent hopfield, 1927.

From ‘An Independent Eye: A Century of Photographs’ by Roger Hudson. Hulton Getty Picture Collection & The Independent. Sutton Publishing, Gloucester, 1998.

Too many tins of pek pork caused this tragedy.
The upside was a trip to Defty’s, established about two thousand years ago and one of the few decent shops left in Spenny.

Looks great

Brilliant x

Day 66
Ryan Hulance
Raised thousands of pounds for charity by recycling cans.
Cut from the Metro 4.3.26
Photo uncredited

Thank you for taking the time to write such kind words

I sew the paper

Day 65
Rio Ferdinand
Currently living in his tax-free Dubai basement.
Cut from the Metro 4.3.26
Photo uncredited

The first stage of a new piece.

‘The baby Prince Andrew proudly grasps the hands of his father Prince Philip and his sister Princess Anne at Balmoral’.

Cut from The Country Life Book of the Royal Silver Jubilee by Patrick Montague-Smith, Hamlyn 1976. Camera Press. Bought from a charity shop.

Days 63 + 64
Unnamed airstrike survivors, Tehran
Cut from the Metro 4.3.26
Article by Sarah Hooper
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