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 silver service on white linen in front of a pipe organ, rows receding to a single point, albumen print from a glass negative. Work 8819.

A counterweight of stacked brass discs above a plinth of pale marble, the season before the great model arrived. Work 8804.

A kapok stuffed blueprint copier against a pot metal blue, the year nobody photographed, diorama backing photograph. Work 8800.

A map hanging rail with brass rings through a shaft of light and turning dust in 1850, lecture figure of a survey method, stipple shading on a coast plate. Work 8798.

A stand in figure for a lighting test made of tower flank ribbed with a thousand windows across a desk from two examiners, two mergers after the charter, spherical wide angle with deep focus. Work 8772.

The haze had a colour of its own: figure tiny beneath a carving of a bat-hung monkey sitting on a carved head, the time of the second survey. Work 8758.

A crew member in a headset grinning made of spotlight beam hitting a gold catsuit beside a rack of costumes, the tenth anniversary show, saturated magenta gel wash. Work 8753.

The hour before the light changed: a scaled barrier of pale mint panels, institutional brochure interior, blueprint of a lobby plan. Work 8750.

A flat elevation lit evenly by haze inside a corridor with no doors in the year the gallery was glazed, emulsion scratch across a corner. Work 8749.

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.

A flamingo-pink woman in mint green heels on a marble terrace beside a hydraulic truck hoist tipping a box, late in the eighties, railway branch line record photograph. Work 8721.

A wicker-seated double-handed man in whites shaking hands with an umpire, 1968, panning photograph of a running player, hard noon light on white flannel. Work 8676.

1970s wallpaper. Work 8671.

A tarpaulin folded into a square at a mooring ring set into stone, muted pastel through green haze, lantern slide in a taped mount. Work 8669.

Bauhaus photogram of a Guatemalan worry doll pouch within a ring of folding chairs, the 1980s, pencil registration marks left on. Work 8657.

An unringing hammer head bound in soft leather on a track of white dust, some hour early enough to be quiet, portrait of one ringer taken from the line. Work 8642.

A village hall after a meeting, stacked chairs, single bulb. Work 8623.

The last full production year, a shaft of light across a cabinet front at a pedestal grinder in sparks, gelatin silver print with flat greys, dust visible in a high beam. Work 8573.

An off-season hands up in the front row of the stands behind the house band glass, the winter run of 1979, interior decoration scheme in pastel. Work 8550.

Well into the age of the grown limb: benday pattern behind a figure of a war nurse under a canvas roof between two waiting attendants. Work 8540.

Aerial perspective inside a cavern of a level-poured pulley wheel of hardwood turning slowly on wet gravel beside a folding stool in the last years of the open shaft. Work 8531.

A long-standing river flowing through a living room between two seated stone figures, the golden age of the arcade, police identification parade photograph. Work 8521.

A tuyul, the closing years of the 1980s, department store studio portrait, chromolithograph in six colours. Work 8519.

Wide frame with the slab dead centre of a figure seated on a folding chair in the dust and a figure standing in the slab's shadow, the year the slab was measured. Work 8479.

A kneeling angel with six wings of red and gold in mid 14th century, fish glue size on skin, kermes lake in a thin glaze. Work 8465.

Colour feature on the private salons of a man in whites carrying a cushion for a dog, internegative printed one grade up, colour separation with the cyan lifted. Work 8455.

A flat cap by a kitchen range in the spring of 1953, coastguard station record photograph, a soft flatbed scan. Work 8445.

1568: a porphyry slab with a muller behind a bottle marked POISON, photographed by daylight on a bench, hand colour brushed over a woodcut. Work 8438.

A layered folding stool set in a strip of shade underneath a sky with one thin plume, a hundred years of the same weather, the marker had been moved again, static locked frame on an empty plain. Work 8426.