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"180 Ways You Are Worth More To Me Like This"

British writer Bernardine Evaristo is an author whose projects are based around her interest in the African diaspora. Her non-fiction book, Feminism is a survey of the representation of women of colour in British art, responding to a major rehang of Tate Britain, the National Collection of British Art, due in 2023. Bernardine’s novel Girl, Woman, Other won the Booker Prize 2019, the first black woman and black British person to win it in its fifty year history. 

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"114 Ways You Are Worth MoreTo Me Like This"

Hand cut, paper cut portrait of engineer and MP Chi Onwurah, Newcastle upon Tyne's first black MP.

“105 Ways You Are Worth More To Me Like This" / “small places, close to home”

This is Khadija Saye (1992 –2017) Gambian-British photographer. The portrait was made by hand cutting 105 love heart shapes from a genuine Bank of England issue £50 note.

 In 2017 Saye’s series of photographs entitled “Dwellings: in this space we breathe”, was exhibited in the Diaspora Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

​She lived with her mother, on the 20th floor of Grenfell Tower in London. Both died in the Grenfell Tower fire on 14 June 2017.

The alternative title of this work quotes Eleanor Roosevelt’s 1958 speech at the United Nations called ‘Where Do Human Rights Begin?’. The piece responds to Article 3: “We all have the right to life, and to live in freedom and safety.” Due to a complex combination of social, economic and political factors Khadija and her mother were denied this right when their home became a place of danger, imprisonment and death. I hope for a world where, for all people, places of domestic dwelling are places of protection, spaces where we breathe. I hope for a world where our most basic human rights can be met in those “small places, close to home”.

“99 Ways You Are Worth More To Me Like This”

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Portrait of Newcastle based drag queen Venus Di Milo, who describes herself as “ Just a drag queen with no arms”. As a biologically female, disabled performer Venus has faced discrimination in many areas of her life including from within the drag community. 

Created by cutting 100 love hearts from a £50 note

“89 Ways You Are Worth More To Me Like This”

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Portrait of Prof Charlotte Roberts, Archaeology professor at Durham University, who started her career as a nurse. She is President of BABAO (British Association of Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology), a keen runner and an active member of the WI. Created by cutting 89 love hearts from a £50 note

"127 Ways You Are Worth More To Me Like This"

Handcut papercut portrait of Malala Yousafzai made by cutting 127 love heart shapes from a genuine £50 note. 

Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement.

"70 Ways You Are Worth More To Me Like This"

Hand cut, papercut portrait of feminist activist and journalist Caroline Criado- Perez

"54 Ways You Are Worth More To Me Like This"

Portrait of Kate Bryan. British art historian, curator and arts broadcaster. Creator of Not 30%, a “part exhibition and part protest” at the Other Art Fair, London, which showed work by 30 emerging female artists. The project’s name refers to the recent statistic that just 30% of solo shows at London’s major institutions are by female artists,

"95 Ways You Are Worth More To Me Like This"

Portrait of Martine D'ellard. Equality activist and lifelong feminist. Founding Member of Nasty Women North East. Martine was nominated by several people. The nominations said she is a tireless campaigner not only for women s rights but for accessibility and equality everywhere and for everyone. And that she offers huge help and support to groups and individuals. “Individual lives and the world are all the better for having Martine in them”!

"67 Ways You Are Worth More To Me Like This"

Portrait of singer, philanthropist and political activist Annie Lennox. A long term supporter of Amnesty International and Greenpeace. Lennox is also patron of the Master's Course in Humanitarian and Development Practice for Oxford Brookes University.

"77 Ways You Are Worth More To Me Like this"

​Frances Morris  is the director of the Tate Modern art gallery in London. The first women to hold the role. In her career, Morris has particularly emphasised the work of women artists and art from outside Europe. She has curated several large-scale international collaborative exhibitions including major retrospectives for Louise Bourgeois, Yayoi Kusama and Agnes Martin

"83 Ways You Are Worth More To Me Like This"

Portrait of Joeli Brearley founder of Pregnant Then Screwed, created by cutting 83 love heart shapes from a genuine Bank of England 50 pound note. Joeli founded the project to support people who have faced maternity or pregnancy discrimination after she was sacked by her employer when she was 4 months pregnant.