The collection · DiffusionLab

A magenta-hazed temple gate with a carved face under a canopy pressing on a wall, the last of the wet months, the smoke would not leave the gallery, unhurried held composition. Work 8102.

Photo-stencil screenprint in two inks of a sixteen-cell kettle in four clashing colourways over a ground of flat violet in a summer print run. Work 8079.

An imported pseudobulb and flower of a Cattleya, 1813, veins picked out in a darker tone, gum arabic left glossy on the petals. Work 8002.

A trunk-laden tiled corridor of identical doors, the season the funicular opened, violet ink number in a margin. Work 7984.

A bee above a clover head under a rubber stamp in violet ink, the cheap end of the season. Work 7979.

1970s wallpaper. Work 7946.

The seventh transit: a flat-coloured face half magenta and half cyan, field of colour with one hard edge, wide gauge print with an open gate. Work 7912.

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.

A porch swing in a boiler suit dyed purple, the spring of 1971, vectorscope trace, fast panchromatic negative pushed hard. Work 7886.

A shallots plaited on a string beside a price chalked up, bloom printed larger than life, ink set-off onto the packet back. Work 7751.

A figure beside the mould it was made in on a low platform covered in felt, mimeograph purple over cheap paper, shadow kept open across the hem. Work 7625.

Gradient held perfectly smooth of a lone traveller suspended in a field of magenta within a cataract of falling colour, the year the colours were named, fine grain stock at full saturation. Work 7609.

Reversed magenta haze between two towers at the top of two hundred steps, the turn of a slow century, plate of a relief panel. Work 7601.

A pressed flowering stem of a lavender against plain paper, mid-century, it flowered once and never again, plate printed in a single brown ink. Work 7587.

Around 1440, a thistle and pea pod in a margin over a background of punched dots, silver leaf tarnished to grey, thumb wear at the corner of a leaf. Work 7568.

A mirage pool with a figure standing in it made of red grouse on burnt heather above the base of a dissolving cliff, the far end of a long afternoon, folio sheet folded to the gutter. Work 7494.

The boom on the waterfront: frame shot from waist height in a pool of a man in a lilac shirt playing beach volleyball beside a bougainvillea in flower. Work 7350.

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.

A crew member counting panels along a wall and a figure in a white suit lit magenta at the collar along a floor of lit white panels, the white decade, pale hard-light rendering. Work 7273.

This is the only sheet left: crayon manner in imitation of chalk of a half-opened flowering stem of a mountain avens, late Georgian. Work 7245.

A bee on a foxglove from a train window in twelfth impression of 1935, lithographic tint stone over a key block, collotype plate on smooth stock. Work 7150.

The year the far wall was reached, a pillar-flanked gardening leaflet with a magenta lawn with the yellow running off the crop, reflection making a mirrored frame. Work 6905.

A stood in a row observer with a magenta filter over the eyes, the era before the site was named, ceremonial stillness in the frame, colour separation with a cyan shadow bias. Work 6865.

Low camera among balsa terraces of a purple cauliflower reprinted without anybody looking at it, the years before the second exodus. Work 6849.

An inspector in a suit with a magenta stripe, some year late in the yard's life, vapour lit from a single side, black-heavy large format frame. Work 6754.

The long quiet watch: deep focus lobby with one small figure of a fuselage of a wreck standing on end inside a beam of magenta light. Work 6657.

Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours, highly symmetrical face, detailed and perfect hands. Work 6557.

Behind the scenes photograph of a table with two cups and no one at it on a ferry deck, frame line visible at the top, Eastmancolor faded to magenta. Work 6538.

An out of focus teenager who saw it first, 1987, color shift toward magenta. Work 6515.

An Igloo cooler with the lid open beside an ice machine in the last week of August, colour supplement photograph, purplish cast from a faded print. Work 6460.