Behind the drawings: The work of a Saskatoon police composite sketch artist - 980 CJME

Norfolk, United Kingdom – Matthew Collings, an English artist in his 70s, sketches on the papers in front of him at his home in the scenic coastal county of Norfolk. Over the past six years, since moving away from the art commentary and criticism that he focused on for decades, he has made more than 3,000 drawings. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Australia festival faces mass boycott after dropping Palestinian authorlist 2 of 4Juliet Stevenson on Gaza: ‘I’m disappointed by the silence in my industry’list 3 of 4Arundhati Roy ‘shocked’ by jury’s Gaza remarks, quits Berlin film festivallist 4 of 4Gaza at the Venice Biennale: Where language falls short, threads take overend of listSince October 2023, a good third of them have focused on Israel’s genocide against Palestinians. Many were to be displayed in a May iteration of his show, Drawings Against Genocide, at a London gallery this month. However, the show was abruptly cancelled following an intervention by a group called the UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI), which claimed the images were anti-Semitic.