The named series, the surfaces of which consist of white wall paint carefully removed from prominent museums and public galleries by professional conservators, using techniques employed to restore frescoes and murals. The thin layer of removed white wall paint is then applied onto raw canvas and framed, so that this ordinary, typically valueless and disregarded 'background' is transcended and becomes painting with a new worth and significance. Each bears the name of its former home - such as Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Serpentine Gallery, London - and when viewed together, the subtle variations in texture, shade of colour and quality of the paint become apparent, indicative of the self-presentation of each institution.
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