The Queue

2022 - 2023

An invitation by the Parliamentary Art Collection to record mourners in ‘The Queue’ for Queen Elizabeth II’s lying in state.

Sketches made in Victoria Tower Gardens, shortly before mourners entered Westminster Hall.

11pm, 15/09/22, Victoria Tower Gardens (2), soft ground etching on Fabriano paper, 29 x 95 cm, edition of 6.

“Around a quarter of a million people paid their respects in person to the Queen by viewing her coffin as it lay in state in London.”
— Culture Secretary, Michelle Donelan

11pm, 15/09/22, Victoria Tower Gardens (1), sugar lift intaglio print on Fabriano paper, 15 x 65 cm, edition of 6.