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Artist makes Boris Johnson sculpture from 6,277 pages of pandemic newsprint

A giant sculpture of Boris Johnson made from 6,277 pages of newsprint collected during the pandemic is set to go on show in a major new Mayfair exhibition.

Mohamed’s ‘old news’ sculpture has been selected to sit alongside works by 24 other artists whose pieces show a creative response to the Covid-19 isolation period.

More than 1,000 artists responded to the call for submissions, with an Old Masters style painting of loo roll and pasta and a hyperreal nurse painting also selected.

The artworks will be on show at Mayfair’s prestigious JD Malat Gallery from 1-8 July in Isolation Mastered.

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Jack Peat

Jack is a business and economics journalist and the founder of The London Economic (TLE). He has contributed articles to VICE, Huffington Post and Independent and is a published author. Jack read History at the University of Wales, Bangor and has a Masters in Journalism from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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