The collection · DiffusionLab

1824: a champagne-lit branch of quince with two fruits, fashion plate shot at three in the morning, register out by a hair. Work 10283.

Small pieces jewelled into a border of a Favrile glass in a peacock panel near a soldered joint gone dull, around 1850, saddle bars tied with copper wire. Work 10188.

Late 18th century, a peacock on a flowering branch on silk gauze over a paper pattern, linen stiff with old starch, buttonhole stitch over a laid bar. Work 10024.

A crown of the Andes at Le Jardin in the Argentine Proceso, Ektachrome gone cyan. Work 9880.

A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro. Work 9607.

Ring flash beauty photograph in whites of a woman in a gown sitting on the arm of a chair beside a wheel with a crowd around it, work print cropped to the hands. Work 9469.

The year the canal opened: a thorn hedge around a sleeping castle over standing water with an oil film, Neues Sehen oblique study, dye-coupled colour negative. Work 9187.

Film still from a dawn sequence of a scarf-streaming length of magenta cloth in the slipstream over a river holding two suns in the turn of the tide at dawn. Work 9112.

Interiors feature in full colour of a woman in a beaded gown adjusting one strap in the season at the hotel, cover proof with the title over gilt. Work 9086.

Type used as the only image of a figure in a padded stage costume on a flat roof terrace, silver print on matte fibre paper, hairline rule printed at a quarter point. Work 8949.

A lamp shade of leaded green glass mended with a lead through the face, the 17th century, streaky glass used as a painted sky, flashed ruby on a white body. Work 8763.

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 glitter-varnished figure on a throne of gold tubing under a beauty dish, the airbrush years, carriage print in soft sepia. Work 8697.

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.

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.

A renaissance portrait of a swan as a bride, oil on canvas, pearls. Work 8545.

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.

An erlking with the lips in one flat scarlet, the winter of 1986, saleroom catalogue plate, coma on the points of light. Work 8287.

A vine-crowned succotash toward a flyer pasted upside down, the space age fashion years, only the initials, silk shading embroidery. Work 8267.

The Whitlam years, a glossy-lipped woman in a gown walking off mid-shoe with a compass rose in the bay, centred wide angle on a tripod. Work 8076.

A bone white branch planted upright in sand, costume study of a wind filled garment, the robe was the only thing that moved, anamorphic negative with a flared edge. Work 7782.

Pastel chalk illustration on tinted paper of a woman in a turquoise sash cutting a boat ribbon with a marina full of masts behind, the hottest week of 1987. Work 7757.

A waitress in gold shorts holding a tray high and a streamers caught in a mirror ball, film still from a dance picture, hot specular hits on sequins. Work 7674.

A dichroic figure whose form reads as a split shell with the stamens laid out, 1807, spread with one bright figure on black. Work 7524.

Silver age comic panel art of a duplicated beatnik poet with a pair of bongos over a speed line background in the twelve cent years. Work 7439.

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 tube bundle strapped for lifting, the year decimalisation came in, hair and makeup continuity photograph, engraving on paper gone amber. Work 7304.

Surface satin stitch with no padding of a radiator with gilled tubes outlined in back stitch, the mid Victorian decades. Work 7062.

A butterfly with banded wings above a line of factory text, the middle 1950s, chromolithograph label with soft tints, coarse label stock with visible flecks. Work 7061.

Architectural photograph with a shift lens of a woman in a gold belt on a black lacquer table in winter 1983, grain enlarged from a small frame. Work 7015.