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Backwater (broken glass, cistern bloo, milk, sandwich bags, necklace, clingfilm, bedroom floor sweepings, hair gel, bingo chips, sellotape, noodles)
Samara Scott (1985 - )
I just want to know my daughter better
Samuel Fordham (1987 - )
Pan African Flag For The Relic Travellers’ Alliance (Community)
Larry Achiampong (1984 - )
Pan African Flag For The Relic Travellers’ Alliance (Motion)
Larry Achiampong (1984 - )
The Island
Stephen Walter (1975 - )
“Just Pretend it’s not There George….”
Nicholas Garland (1935 - )
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(John) Selwyn Brooke Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd (1904-1978): “Hey Presto! Oops….”
Stanley Franklin (1930 - 2004)
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton (1894-1986) Chancellor of the Exchequer; Prime Minister: “When I hear the word culture I reach for my Gunn”
Victor ("Vicky") Weisz (1913 - 1966)
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Perhaps we should have second thoughts on his vertical take-off….
Victor ("Vicky") Weisz (1913 - 1966)
A Scene from Samuel Foote’s Play “Taste”
Robert Smirke (1753 - 1845)
Hands beneath the Sea
Edward Linley Sambourne (1845 - 1910)
The Opening of Historical Buildings
Sir Osbert Lancaster (1908 - 1986)
Richard Austen Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden (1902-1982); Sir (Maurice) Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton (1894-1986); Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury (1893-1972) – “Er, of course, he’s the best Prime Minister we have…”
Victor ("Vicky") Weisz (1913 - 1966)
Fiat Experimentum
Charles Keene (1823 - 1891)
Norman Stewart Hughson Lamont, Baron Lamont of Lerwick (b.1942) 13/11/1992 – “Public Sector Deficit”
Nicholas Garland (1935 - )
Compulsory Obsolescence
Michael Landy (1963 - )
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