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Barbara Bloom

Barbara Bloom-Ghost Writer-still life-1994

Barbara Bloom, ‘Ghost of Vanitas Still Life’ (1994)

BB had a deep affinity for Dutch “Golden Age” painting, a result perhaps of her many years in Amsterdam, but more pertinently of a shared love of the material world. These were painters fascinated by framing: not only in the form of coy devices like the pulled-back drape at the edge of the canvas, but in the literal depiction of framed pictures within their pictures. (We know the artists whose paintings Vermeer owned because he showed them so often in his own paintings.) In David Bailly’s picture, things and pictures are arrayed across the surface of his canvas. Whatever his allegorical intentions, Bailly’s concern with the observable world, in all its idiosyncratic particulars, has trumped conventional narrative. BB’s peekaboo mounting only exacerbates Bailly’s pre-occupation with distracting surfaces and the limpid connections of thoughts and things.


Stuart Ringholt

Stuart Ringholt Cur8or 2014

Stuart Ringholt, ‘Cur8or’ (2014)


John Gibbons

The Awaiting 1991-2 John Gibbons born 1949 Purchased with assistance from Tom Bendhem 1998 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/T07443

‘The Awaiting’ (1991-92) by John Gibbons.


Lennart Lahuis

Lennart-Lahuis-Dis-penser-2

Lennart-Lahuis-Dis-penser-1

Lennart Lahuis, ‘Dis-penser (Study I)’ (2014)


Martin Fletcher | Systems House

Martin Fletcher_Multi-Way Acoustic Reflector Unit 2011

Martin Fletcher | Systems House, ‘Multi-Way Acoustic Reflector Unit’ (2011)


Dennis Oppenheim

Dennis Oppenheim, ‘Device to root out evil’ (1997)


Fred Pradeau

‘Coca-Cola Alcohol Distiller’ (2001)

‘Coca-Cola Alcohol Bottle’ (2001) by Fred Pradeau

A huge amount of coca cola is made to rot, and alcohol is distilled from it, using a machine made out of kitchen and plumbing tools.