Anya Paintsil, ‘She had fingers like lead, she could run them under boiling water. She wore the longest acrylics I’d ever seen. I wanted to be just like her. I hope I can be to you what she was to me’, 2023 Acrylic yarn, wool, synthetic hair, alpaca, cotton, human hair, plastic beads, earrings on hessian 22.4 × 61.7 inches