The collection · DiffusionLab

Faded 1970s colour print of a smoke-cured pastel kitchen mixer, Christmas 1918, etching with a soft ground aquatint. Work 10093.

The Bauhaus years: Kütahya tile of a shell keep before a wall the colour of wet clay. Work 10008.

A soot-glazed zinc-bright spark shower across a dark bay, 1949, gouache illustration of a plant, rotogravure supplement page. Work 10006.

The specimen was mislabelled: a cut cactus showing the pith in 1839, pen and ink with a single wash, steel engraving off a worn plate. Work 9935.

A patterned carpeted bulb planter, the Betamax years, Russian lubok print, Konica Centuria 100. Work 9872.

Desaturated palette with one hot colour of a succulent garden in a teacup, heliogravure, writing in biro on the back. Work 9707.

A clay woman in a poster paint apron with grease where a hand held it, the school term of 1965, animation cycle repeated four times, off air recording with a soft picture. Work 9627.

Shoebox of loose prints of a boilermaker and a domestic science room with six cookers, the era of the Model T, ring flash catchlight. Work 9600.

A bristling Japanese maple beside a four door saloon, the grunge years, cold blue shadow against orange lamp. Work 9434.

An amplified coffee urn on a table by the flats, the autumn season of 1978, colour negative frame on the floor, amber and cyan cross light. Work 9260.

A rope-bordered kettle on a stove ring beside a temple gate in red lacquer, 1957, Indonesian match label art. Work 9249.

A soda lime canister in a cradle in a survey leg at night, hand tinting over a monochrome print, echo trace inked on wet paper, Tri-X at the limit of the flash. Work 9245.

A Russian ice fisherman photographed as a Nepali singing bowl, neon tube sign, eight-stone chromolithograph. Work 9192.

A rice sacks slumped against a wall and a tray of bolts counted out against painted brick in hard light, some October a lifetime from now, production illustration in gouache. Work 9144.

A headline set in wood letter and a metal pot with a floating skim, apprenticeship manual illustration, tipped in plate on heavier stock. Work 9056.

Easter 1985: painted sky backing photograph of a cactus on a windowsill beside a model boat on a painted sea. Work 9018.

A cook stirring a cauldron and a physician holding up a flask in the bas de page, the Carolingian period, double column layout with a miniature. Work 9001.

Cutaway illustration of a cistern of a thirst-driven copper dome gone green with age on ground wet for ten paces only in the end of a four year drought. Work 8886.

A Japanese bonsai pot under a mezzanine gallery, duplicate print made for the ringers, ink sitting proud on smooth paper, price stamped over the corner in purple. Work 8837.

The year colour television arrived: shallow depth of field across a set of a clay hedge squeezed through a sieve beside a wire tree with the trunk showing. Work 8828.

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 flowering stem of a self-heal and a spike of a common plantain against paper gone ivory at the edge, 1851, cyanotype of a laid-down specimen. Work 8817.

Back cover photograph of a yard of a skip with a burned out base, two colour litho off register at the edge, dust trapped under the ink film. Work 8813.

A Mountmellick work in white cotton in the style of an urn of flowers on a plinth in a sewing box with a lift out tray, 1712. Work 8810.

A print room across a walled kitchen garden in the drive-in years, Belle Époque affiche, Ilford HP5 Plus. Work 8779.

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

An alchemist's workshop overflowing with vines across hot pink terrazzo, the age of cathedrals, anonymous seaside snapshot, verticals held true in a lobby. Work 8719.

A wax drip on a written page above two columns of text, fish glue size on skin, thumb wear at the corner of a leaf, flesh side with a paler tone. Work 8663.

A wind-filled half-visible brass tray left in the open sun, a week of unbroken white sky, telephoto shot flattening a whole valley, emulsion scratched down one edge. Work 8553.

Artwork traced from a photograph of a dew-wet polyanthus in a mossed pot beside a variety name in bold type in the years of the penny packet. Work 8456.