Jem Robinson gets her Autumn Energy on with this recent commission for the TUC's Congress Guide 2010:

“I was asked to show 'people fighting the threatened swarm of [Government spending] cuts' in several situations and this automatically suggested a swarm of bees or flying ants or locusts, something buzzing around threateningly, so I decided to recreate this with scissors.”

“I originally intended to use real figures, but I couldn't really have the scissors hacking at the figures then. So I went with a paper chain of people, the intent behind this was to show the faceless (to the Government at least) masses of people affected by the proposed cuts, joining them together to represent the rallying groups like the TUC who are fighting against the proposed cuts.”