The collection

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A portfolio of ten heads, a garish apprentice's head in flat sand reduced to a black plate and a pink, portrait printed on stiff white board. Work 8780.
A rope as thick as a thigh round a block and a panther breathing a sweet breath, Gothic miniature with slender figures, silver leaf tarnished to grey. Work 8723.
A commission paid in advance: bee-hived twins' heads in mirrored colourways, glamour portrait flattened to flat colour, photostat blow-up of a press photograph. Work 8700.
A cameraman's face in flat blue grey inside a gallery of tiled portraits, the black plate went on last and saved it. Work 8686.
Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours. Work 8651.
A soft-edged suited figure lit only along one edge, the seventh transit, 70mm print with the colour left screaming. Work 8600.
Illustrated portrait with no line at all of a squeegeed model's face reduced to three flats inside a stencilled oval in the last print of the series. Work 8557.
The Reconstruction era, a tiple at the top of chapter one, interlace comb on a fast move, a faded dye coupler stain. Work 8526.
A chrome-yellow councillor's face in sour brown against a backing board of black, a portfolio of ten heads, the studio only had lime and pink left, portrait with the skin left bare paper. Work 8513.
Offset lithograph on thin label paper of a figure in a headpiece of anodised titanium, transparency on a light box in the dark, duplicate transparency made for the file. Work 8475.
Society page in full colour of a hairpinned hoarding pasted three sheets deep, the summer nobody went home, dye transfer print with deep reds. Work 8463.
Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours, highly symmetrical face, detailed and perfect hands. Work 8357.
Symmetrical composition around a rim of a face striped with white clay, grain sitting in the green, wide gauge spherical lens. Work 8315.
A doleful welding mask flipped up in the last summer of the 1920s, photostat with reversed tone, brochure page on gloss art stock. Work 8070.
A crest-high long shadow of a rider at dusk, forty days out from the last market, large format view with a thin file in it, charcoal and chalk on toned paper. Work 8011.
Head printed over a squeegee streak of a cigarette held in flat red lips, a fingerprint set into the pink, flesh flat printed over a magenta ground. Work 7995.
Half past eleven on a school night: a cobbled last frame of a roll, darkroom print dodged nowhere at all, carte de visite studio portrait. Work 7928.
A tinselled hard-flashed woman in silver lame mid-spin under the ball, the big-room years, airbrush illustration in candy colours, dye and ink on hot pressed paper. Work 7902.
Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. Work 7815.
Quirky 1970s claymation scenes, cinematic, 70s earth tones. Work 7803.
A grey band along a photocopied edge and a stencil cut from thin cardboard, flattened halftone of a halftone, cut and pasted then shot on the glass. Work 7774.
1970s cartoon, wes anderson. Work 7749.
1970 cartoon, animation, film still, distressed. Work 7717.
The mouth was printed a fraction too low: portrait printed in four sour colourways of a screenprinted bingo caller's head in hot orange, the print studio's busiest summer. Work 7698.
Quirky 1950s cartoon, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7687.
Serial head print in eight variants of a cropped tight self portrait in flat pink, the season of the loud palette, moire over a rescreened source. Work 7673.
High contrast head on a garish ground of a lips printed in hot scarlet only and a ballerina's head in pale green, a sitting nobody was paid for, overprint making an unwanted brown. Work 7421.
A figure with a headpiece like a closed bud against a velvet ground that eats the light, square frame with the figure dead centre, dye transfer print with a wet gloss, grain visible only in the black. Work 7406.
A magician's face in flat indigo photographed as a palm leaf manuscript, opus anglicanum in split stitch, scratched negative printed anyway. Work 7405.
A face half in shadow and half in magenta half in magenta and half in dark, the turn of the 1970s, saturated unnatural colour still, halation around a burning flare. Work 7345.