After the Event, 2025

work in progress

invited - Jewish small communities network

After the Event documents global antisemitic attacks targeting innocent Jewish children and teenagers, as well as their parents, schools and kindergartens. Every incident recorded has taken place since 7 October 2023. What kind of world are we living in when a teacher tells a 6-year-old girl she is “only half human” because one of her parents is Jewish?

This is not history (though it feels like history repeating itself). This is happening now, to children, on their way to and from school and in classrooms where they should feel safe.

When the artwork is complete, it will take the form of a teenager’s tallit, a Jewish prayer shawl.

Measurement:

Process: Hand stitch

Materials: Textile, silk thread, fringes, tzitzit

Exhibited in:

Leaders of Jewish Small Communities Network Reception, Houses of Parliament, House of Commons, London (5 November 2025)

comments

  • Keep on going. Humans have learned nothing about history. Our world has turned deeply insane

  • Heartbreaking, extremely upsetting and completely unacceptable

  • I honestly don’t understand this kind of darkness

  • Seriously frightening

  • There are some despicable people out there. Your work is vital

  • I cannot imagine the emotional response as you stitch

  • It’s difficult to comprehend how this is happening. Again!

  • This is devastating work

  • You don’t have to dig deep to find a persistent seam of antisemitism. The rhetoric is always a Jew is a Jew is a Jew - shockingly dehumanising

  • Your work is really special