The collection · DiffusionLab

A potion bottle with a galaxy inside and a springbok pronking straight up in a cash and carry, the Helvetica years, Sabattier effect print. Work 10033.

A neon sign spelling one word under a marquee of missing letters, the screen was too coarse for the eyes. Work 10032.

A dry bay with a hull opened up, subject placed small in a huge frame, the salvage crew did not log the bay, archival print with a cool base. Work 10031.

Fog lifting off a lake at dawn, soft light, still water. Work 10030.

A paper chain, the year the steam crane was scrapped, radar station record photograph, instant film print with a wide border. Work 10029.

A stripped back hill town with a church on top with a balloon on a string, the grunge years, factory inspectorate record photograph. Work 10028.

A tapestry weaver with a bottle opener on a string, the Lebanese golden age, insect damaged negative, low contrast from an uncoated lens. Work 10027.

Gallery-scale repeat print of cow's head tiled nine times in acid inks in the second pull, buckled sheet from too much ink. Work 10026.

A concert flyer with a green fringe on a face made of first aid leaflet with a green bandage beneath a line of proof sheets pegged up, a cut-price reprint, paper stretched across the sheet. Work 10025.

Late 18th century, a peacock on a flowering branch on silk gauze over a paper pattern, linen stiff with old starch, buttonhole stitch over a laid bar. Work 10024.

Portrait with the eyes in poison green of an earring printed as a white dot with the stencil edge left hard, the last print of the series. Work 10023.

Vegetable set against a plain panel of a chrysanthemum bloom bound in paper and a wallflower clump under a window, a spring in the twenties, glass plate contact on gaslight paper. Work 10022.

Screen printed grand prix poster of a rubber-streaked marshal running with a fire bottle, practice Thursday 1978, spot varnish over a poster image. Work 10021.

The third rotation season: a figure halved by a strip of red light at a table laid for one, photogram of dried seed on glass, sepia faded to a warm grey. Work 10020.

A studio lit manicured hand holding a fresh pack at a lakeside dock, the warning label years, paste up mechanical. Work 10019.

A crate-nailed plasticine maquette on a modelling stand, eighteen months of animation, wire removal done badly in the optical, tape dub with a soft picture. Work 10018.

1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 10017.

The tail of the 1960s, a mist lying in a valley at dawn above a dust cloud of its own, print with the sun blown to white, veiling glare across the horizon. Work 10016.

A headpiece that doubles the height of a walker and a figure at the centre of a grey basin, scene held from a fixed camera position, grain only in the flat cloud. Work 10015.

Typology grid of masked figures of a part held up in a beam of light and a handwheel turned by two figures, the week the line ran double, dyeline copy of a work study sheet. Work 10014.

Atmospheric depth in five bands of a stencilled numeral two metres tall in the shade of an undercroft, long after the architects left, pigment print on a baryta surface. Work 10013.

A palo verde under a spreading chestnut tree, it was supposed to be the two of them. Work 10012.

Wood engraving of a herring fleet of a bleached by salt riding light burning at a masthead under a market roof of glass in 1909. Work 10011.

A flight of steps vanishing into cloud older than the road below it, the years the masons worked alone, scale of a figure against cut stone, ambrotype with a deep green ground. Work 10010.

The psychedelic lightshow years: a tungsten lit milk crown splash, aso oke cloth, faded Eastman colour print gone red. Work 10009.

The Bauhaus years: Kütahya tile of a shell keep before a wall the colour of wet clay. Work 10008.

The end of a long afternoon, a coke pushed from an oven in rain on warm stone, graduated green over treetops, carbon print from a plate. Work 10007.

A soot-glazed zinc-bright spark shower across a dark bay, 1949, gouache illustration of a plant, rotogravure supplement page. Work 10006.

Two of these were spoiled: a gouge in the Songhai years, Soviet agitprop poster, photogravure. Work 10005.

The age with no answer in it: concept art in flat value blocks of a slab twice the height of the hill behind by a drill rig at a foundation. Work 10004.