Godbold, a series of 18 religious drawings with ironic titles on the backs of electoral leaflets. Roberts submitted 12 large-format photographs and 1,696 documentary snaps, and Parker posted more than a thousand campaign photos on Instagram, edited together with news clips and sound bites in an animation called Election Abstract.

For my money, Dant did it best with a massive, marvellous drawing in the Hogarth tradition, called The Government Stable.

According to the Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art, which appoints the General Election artist in what seems a rather secret-squirrel, behind-the-scenes process, the job is to “record each UK General Election, for future generations to be informed and inspired by”, taking care to “provide a balanced view of the election”.

After accepting the gig, in November 2019, Hirst set off around the country. To begin with, she went to manifesto launches and party events, but she quickly realised that you learn little by being with people who are all of the same mind. “So I went to the more contested areas of the country where people were really trying to work out how they were going to vote.

“What I noticed was that there was a lot of … ah … People were very, very conflicted …”

While travelling to these marginal areas, she also became “obsessed” with the party colours. Badges, flags, rosettes, posters in windows, and this is reflected in the final work, which features 64 abstract figures in Perspex, hung from a great Catherine Wheel frame.

The colours do not just represent the party mix, says Hirst; they also represent the diversity of people and opinions around the country, while the spinning structure evokes both the literal Ferris wheels and carousels she came across, and the metaphorical “cycles and rotations” of elections. She cites the great American mobile-maker Alexander Calder as a “huge” point of reference.