The collection · DiffusionLab

A hot violet balloon tiled in clashing primaries, an unnumbered proof run, gloss patch where the ink pooled. Work 10301.

Dissection worked at twice the scale of a naturalised corm and flower of a saffron crocus on a background left entirely blank in 1877. Work 10227.

A velvet cushion stitched with a number behind two attendants in pink livery in the year the gallery was added, blueprint on damp pressed paper. Work 10213.

A bureaucratic note left on a kitchen table, the mid 1970s, available light night frame, Eastmancolor faded to magenta. Work 10040.

A leafless flowering stem of a cotton thistle with the stem cut at a slant, mid-century, flat wash under a fine outline. Work 9913.

A haze layers stacked to the horizon beside a machine at rest, arc lamp as a stand in sun, graduated violet over the sky, bloom spreading off a bright disc. Work 9828.

The closing stretch of the crossing: a flat-coloured figure crossing a plane of glowing violet, saturated single-hue lighting scheme, matched optical pass over a gradient. Work 9733.

Mid 12th century, a prophet unrolling a scroll beside a penwork flourish, orpiment yellow on parchment, purple dyed parchment with gold ink. Work 9664.

A marshaller's long shadow on a strip against a violet dawn, the week of low sun, scale study of machine and sun, reversal stock exposed for the sky. Work 9500.

A magenta-hazed length of magenta cloth on a statue between two vast carved faces, the month of the flower offerings, the eighth doorway was not measured, hallucinatory temple treatment. Work 9464.

The third crossing season: a violet-rimmed traveller suspended with the arms folded, luminous plane treated as architecture, wide frame with the flare left uncleaned. Work 9460.

A magenta-lit burnt patch of ground still smoking, the week of coloured smoke, night for night forest frame, internegative one generation down. Work 9386.

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.

Complementary clash of magenta and cyan of a centred exactly traveller in a suit of overlapping iridescent scales within a field of undiluted magenta in the era before the gate was mapped. Work 9369.

A kamale ngoni against a wall of coarse magenta dots, nobody could play it. Work 9365.

The prize was given out twice: a quill and inkwell in the Art Nouveau years, bird's eye view lithograph, graduated magenta over the top of frame. Work 9357.

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.

The seed was saved from last year: oil sketch of a prize vegetable of a slug-eaten red cabbage cut in half, 1903. Work 8961.

A fluorescent-lit audience lit from behind only, the big bang year, cut and paste flyer artwork, stencil sprayed through thin steel. Work 8843.

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.

Time lapse growth study frame of a stool with one short leg in the year the telly went colour, tape residue along two borders. Work 8835.

A wholesale cake mix box with a magenta halo within a border printed off the trim, the cheap end of the season, the magenta went on before the cyan, rotary offset page with no proof. Work 8754.

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 blonde head on a pillow of magenta dots above a skyline of black rectangles, the twelve cent era, heavy contour line over flat dots, magenta plate low by two millimetres. Work 8549.

A man in a purple floor jacket palms out against a wall of framed certificates, February 1989, mixed lighting frame left uncorrected, print with a caption pasted below. Work 8469.

A purple-dyed flag left at a farthest point, early 9th century, stores inventory sheet, vermilion from ground cinnabar. Work 8386.

The second month of rain, a magenta-washed shrine box on a post at the water's edge centred in an empty reach, very long lens river shot. Work 8353.

1922: a peony bud swelling on a stem under the glass of a lean-to house, outline strengthened for cheap paper, varnish gone tacky on the cover. Work 8341.

A man in a satin jumpsuit with a wide belt beside a wind machine on set, acrylic and airbrush over a photograph, spot gloss varnish on a logo. Work 8255.

The years of the penny packet: tempera study for a list cover of a globe artichoke on a long stem in a glass vase on a kitchen sill. Work 8193.