The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
The collection
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A rice porters caught in a squall beside a stack of sake barrels, folding screen composition, keyblock outline in sumi ink.Work 8726.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 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.Ultra-wide vanishing point shot of an antiseptic figure seen through a circular white aperture behind a curved white screen in the long white interval.Work 8710.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 glitter-varnished figure on a throne of gold tubing under a beauty dish, the airbrush years, carriage print in soft sepia.Work 8697.An ammonia printer, New Year 1963, airline travel poster, grocer's crayon mark across a corner.Work 8690.A wide-shouldered pleated costume held together with visible stitches, some time after the last collection, colour transparency of a single look, emulsion that reads pink in the shadows.Work 8682.Carte de visite portrait of a hand-tapped jelly wobbling on a silver plate beside a scale of leagues and one of miles in the year the works opened.Work 8674.1970s wallpaper.Work 8671.Bauhaus photogram of a Guatemalan worry doll pouch within a ring of folding chairs, the 1980s, pencil registration marks left on.Work 8657.The suite came with its own telephone number: a woman with a bouquet larger than herself in the week of the gala, shot from the corridor into a suite, print with the chandelier burnt in.Work 8653.Society page frame at a hotel door of a woman in a silver coat beside a chrome exhaust, tape still with a soft magenta edge, print with the black gone slightly green.Work 8652.Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours.Work 8651.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.Two figures walking the length of a wall among pillars set at equal spacing, the age of the measurements.Work 8638.The era of the indigo robe, a dark tent cloth staked into sand among shadows nine animals long, charcoal and chalk on toned paper, 4x5 colour transparency in flat noon.Work 8637.A renaissance portrait of a tortoise as an astronomer, candlelight.Work 8636.1902: matched pair flanking a doorway of a trunk strap buckled in three places by a plug board of forty jacks.Work 8629.The dirty thirties: a rope-slung distributor head spinning over the bins, grading standards reference plate, exposure set for the highlights.Work 8612.Gloss on silver as the brightest thing of a woman in a robe on a telephone with a long cord signing without looking at the total, the season at the hotel.Work 8610.A drum of diesel with a hand pump backed by a sun filling the frame, the slow years of the river trade, bleach bypass colour still, soft focus filter over the lens.Work 8599.Study of felt and metal together of a robe dyed the red of old brick in the week the fog stayed down, square frame with the line low in it.Work 8598.A papa a la huancaína, die cut scrap sheet, the shell came from a taped-over album, Kodachrome 25 fashion transparency.Work 8591.A woman at the wheel with her eyes shut, the last night of the season, jewellery advertisement under a chandelier, print spotted out along the rail.Work 8575.A renaissance portrait of a stag as a general, oil on panel, armour.Work 8572.1846: keyline engraving with flat colour behind of a wire and felt shepherd in a wool cloak beside an old coastline left in dotted line.Work 8565.Still life of table silver on baize of a woman in a pleated gown by a mirrored column through a shaft of sun on bevelled glass, colour transparency of mint and brass.Work 8554.Naive figures worked out of proportion of a maker's name and her age in small letters worked in two shades of green, the mid Victorian decades.Work 8552.A renaissance portrait of a swan as a bride, oil on canvas, pearls.Work 8545.