The collection · DiffusionLab

A rebus of a name in a border, Arts and Crafts glazing in clear lights, it came out of a house being pulled down, lead came stopped with oily cement. Work 8820.

A flowering stem of a self-heal and a spike of a common plantain against paper gone ivory at the edge, 1851, cyanotype of a laid-down specimen. Work 8817.

A haze-greyed silt shelf built up against a base in the long wet age, cyanotype in a deep slate blue, pigment print on cotton paper. Work 8814.

Back cover photograph of a yard of a skip with a burned out base, two colour litho off register at the edge, dust trapped under the ink film. Work 8813.

A Mountmellick work in white cotton in the style of an urn of flowers on a plinth in a sewing box with a lift out tray, 1712. Work 8810.

Zanfirico glass vase of a company-issued livery stable against a stencilled hazard band in the spring of 1941. Work 8801.

Film to tape transfer frame of a water tank of riveted plate on legs in the Vijayanagara years, flash cube burn in the corner. Work 8783.

Wide plate with the subject to one side of a broken jar spilling dry grain, scratch running the length of a frame, screen print in three flat colours. Work 8744.

A bin lid tiled across a grid numbered by hand in the margin, a signed edition, comic advertisement page illustration, ink bleeding under the stencil. Work 8736.

Scale contrast with an enormous vessel of a shelf of blank faces on stands and a security officer at a laboratory gate, two revisions past the first schematic, chrome reflection of a lit ceiling. Work 8615.

A ration of water measured into a cup inside a camp pitched on dry crust, screen print in black over white stock, photochemical print with a cold base, graphite and wash on smooth paper. Work 8596.

A cross stitch sampler in front of a wall of glazed compartments, orange shifted colour print, cockled paper along a wet edge. Work 8543.

An infused slice of dried rhubarb root beside a sheet of blistering plaster, 1710, delft blue laid over a white glaze. Work 8539.

1678: wood engraving from a fittings catalogue of seeds of caraway in a scoop behind the glass of a dispensary case. Work 8473.

Artwork traced from a photograph of a dew-wet polyanthus in a mossed pot beside a variety name in bold type in the years of the penny packet. Work 8456.

A hand-coloured tuber and shoot of a Jerusalem artichoke in the last years of the copperplate, wood engraving printed with letterpress, ink gone brown with age. Work 8424.

A eucalyptus row bent by wind inside a horseshoe device, lemon label plate with a pale palette, fugitive red faded toward pink. Work 8387.

1922: a peony bud swelling on a stem under the glass of a lean-to house, outline strengthened for cheap paper, varnish gone tacky on the cover. Work 8341.

An antirrhinum spike in a hot colour in the dark of a shuttered shop, the years of the poison book, vegetable set against a plain panel, dot screen coarse enough to count. Work 8303.

The 1990s: ajrakh block print of a resonance tube with a tuning fork along a street of painted fronts. Work 8251.

Tripod plate at a small aperture of a brush laid across a paste pot rim in the week of the inspection, photogravure plate in a portfolio. Work 8246.

A mesh diamond pattern in hard light among cage pallets of offcuts, blueprint of a yard boundary, colour transparency gone orange, daylight stock gone amber. Work 8227.

1911: a glare-free photographic zenith tube, lunar limb pencil study, pencil number on the plate edge. Work 8142.

An organ pipe cactus tethered to a mast in the mist, the Roaring Twenties, seed identification chart, 6x9 rollfilm transparency. Work 8126.

An evening class foliate nasturtium trailing over a path edge, the Pictish years, astronomical lantern slide, glaze pooled at the foot of the jar. Work 8123.

The years of the poison book: tin glaze crazed across the letters of a bundle of valerian root tied with twine on a bare board floor. Work 8082.

A ballast shot hopper under the hull in a cold store below decks, 1938, instrument catalogue plate, blue shift below thirty metres. Work 8064.

An ice cream sundae with a dotted cherry in the style of a cat arching on a dustbin lid over a yellow halftone sky, the era of the four ink press. Work 8043.

Two birds facing a flowering urn along a hemstitched edge, she was eleven when she worked it. Work 8036.

Ruling pen border with corner flowers of a grocer weighing sugar on brass scales and a bird nest with four speckled eggs, a 1936 reprint, tipped in colour plate with a tissue. Work 8035.