The collection · DiffusionLab

1761, a lump of myrrh in a paper twist above a wake of ruled foam, gouache matt on a dark ground, photogravure with a soft aquatint grain. Work 10218.

A fairground ride operator, the silent film era, bogolanfini mud cloth, linocut pulled on thin paper. Work 10176.

The whole series ran to forty: hand-cut stencil label art of a glue-stained steam locomotive seen head on, 1945. Work 10175.

A policeman's head in process cyan against a flat turquoise backdrop, cheap process print on a folded sheet, copy shot slightly off square, gloss sleeve reflecting a strip light. Work 10096.

Muscles of the face named photographed as a baseline grid ruled in pale blue, linocut in two flat colours, one hard light from the left. Work 10038.

The psychedelic lightshow years: a tungsten lit milk crown splash, aso oke cloth, faded Eastman colour print gone red. Work 10009.

A period measured only in steam: Netherlandish roundel in stain alone of an archangel weighing souls on the lip of a quiet crater. Work 9921.

Spanish match label art of a horse's head in a laurel wreath in the post-war export years, two inks overlapping into a dark line. Work 9899.

Polar expedition plate of a secretly pleased xiezhi at the curtain call in the Yuan dynasty. Work 9869.

A fishwife's head in sour pink and an apprentice's head in flat sand, banner portrait in two loud inks, tape marks down two sides. Work 9856.

A scallop-canopied fireplace of pale veined marble with a folded cloth over one arm, 1902, the manager stood where he always stood, centred lobby interior plate. Work 9835.

Rubber stamp print artwork of a sound man with headphones on one ear, reversal film with blocked highlights, open reel video tape frame. Work 9779.

Rendered in one flat blaze of light of a face veil beaded along its lower edge outside a shelter with no roof, slow emulsion holding a deep black, photochemical grade with a warm base. Work 9712.

A bishop saint in a jewelled mitre and a broken quarry mended with a lead, hot ruby set against a cool blue, vitreous paint fired at 640 degrees. Work 9673.

A milkman's head in pale cyan over a flood of unmixed lime, a proof pulled before lunch, portrait print pulled in one colour pass, rosettes visible across the forehead. Work 9669.

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

Plate printed in olive then hand finished of a waxy flowering head of a wild carrot, 1839, gum arabic left glossy on the petals. Work 9588.

A cropped tight eucalyptus-lined fairground barker's face in scarlet, a run of six heads in six inks, portrait with the shadows as one black, print pinned through four corners. Work 9559.

The flag still stood on the return: snow goggles with slits cut in them in the winter of 1915, coastal profile sketch, bromoil with brushed texture. Work 9533.

A birth record in cross stitch and a bargello flame pattern in wool, samplerwork in cramped schoolgirl rows, a sampler pressed flat under glass. Work 9527.

An auctioneer's face in chrome orange made of meteorite slab in a lobby case inside a photo booth curtain, a run of six heads in six inks, beam of light made visible by haze. Work 9477.

A movie poster for a monster nobody sees, negative space, small figure. Work 9405.

A brilliantined keffiyeh in the last summer of the 1910s, a laser print of a photograph, green laid over a yellow underprint. Work 9398.

A double-ranked hood lined with felt to deaden sound beside a sash woven with copper thread, a cold morning with no wind, close study of hands on cold metal. Work 9372.

Solar eclipse plate of a self satisfied operator with a headset facing the lens against a screen lit evenly across in the turn of the 1940s. Work 9368.

1844: silverpoint outline with a wash of grey of a yellow wagtail among cattle under a running head in italic. Work 9255.

Printed on India paper and mounted of heavily inked layers of the retina magnified on a folding plate bound at the spine in 1814. Work 9188.

A number-drunk woman in a pinstripe skirt suit on a ladder in the age of the unmeasured distance, wide gauge frame with a smooth gradient, dot matrix printout on fanfold paper. Work 9177.

Portrait made from a coarse halftone of a jaw-lit museum guide's head in flat stone beside a hand-cut stencil of a jaw in a commission paid in advance. Work 9161.

A groom's head in two clashing greys, portrait with the hair printed as a mass, the key was on the wrong hook, rephotographed print losing its detail. Work 9002.