The sister of murdered Hanwell schoolgirl Alice Gross is showing artwork about the 34 days when she was missing.

Alice Gross was only 14 when she went missing from her Hanwell home on the 28th August 2014.

A public search for her followed, and her body was found in the River Brent on the 30th September 2014.

The body of convicted Latvian murderer and chief suspect, Arnis Zalkalns, was later found nearby.

Now her sister Nina Gross, 25, has an exhibition at the Espacio Gallery in Shoreditch, which includes drawings from each day that Alice was missing, based on Facebook memories and news reports from the time.

Nina said: “Even though I've spent all this time looking at it, it doesn't feel very cemented, that time still feels very chaotic and hazy.

“It was a way of trying to document it and go through what happened.”

Nina reinterpreted her drawings onto silk organza, a translucent cloth, with each piece of cloth representing one day that Alice was missing.

She said: “The layering of the cloth represents how confusing and how unclear memory can be, and how the more you go back to it, the more things change.

“Every time you remember something you see it in a slightly different way.”

When Alice went missing Nina was due to study science at the University of Cambridge, but later left and pursued art.

Nina took the art class ‘Very Original: Advanced Textiles’ at City Lit College in London, and the current exhibition is a showcase of work from the course.

She initially knitted hearts as a distraction and physical way to keep her hands busy, and art became a way for her to process her grief.

The artwork explores that grief, and the darkness of the days when Alice was missing.

Nina told Ealing Times that Alice was so much more than what happened to her.

She added: “Alice was someone who could make you smile all the time over anything, she just brought joy.”

The Ealing community and police rallied around the Gross family during the tragedy, including tying ribbons for Alice to trees all over Ealing, and supported them when their worst fears were realised.

Nina said: “The Metropolitan Police are used to dealing with inner city stuff.

“They were very surprised with the community spirit and quite moved by it as well.

“It wasn’t a private grief. It's impossible for me to have imagined that a local community could be so supportive.

“The number of people who printed posters, put up ribbons, shared appeals and went beyond what could ever be expected of a stranger was just incredible.

“Everyone was genuinely invested and cared, and that's something quite unique to what happened.”

Nina’s artwork is currently on show at Espacio Gallery in Shoreditch until Sunday.

You can also see it online at https://www.textiles2020.com/textiles2020-the-show.