Appropriating found and discarded objects and incorporating a naive painting style, Steven Dowson produces old-fashioned trompe l'oeil effects that are themselves loosely based on the antiquated genre of the still-life: a small, battered fold-up table leans against a wall and on its surface Dowson has made a painting of a tablecloth; in another work, a painting of a sack of potatoes hangs from real scales, the hook of the scales reaching behind the canvas and emerging as a painted object at the top of the picture. It is not surprising, therefore, that a slightly sad and musty patina clings to them.