Some get broken, some are lost, some just slightly bashed. And then MacAskill is very keen on brown parcel tape, which he likes to bind round objects. Sometimes, Customs officers are suspicious of what these seeming packets contain. The layers of tape are carefully unwrapped to disclose something harmless like a screwedup sweet-paper, or indeed nothing at all. MacAskill endows his objects with new meaning.
Serial imagery is explored as well as the unique artwork.
The range of gesture and mark is satisfyingly wide, from the faint scratchings on a minimal white card, to a density of frottage and layered ornament. MacAskill uses lots of paint, and brightly coloured stickers to articulate his ideas. He has a genius for recycling and re-shaping. Though not everything makes it through the sorting office, there are between 200 and 300 items on display here, including great discs of polystyrene that wouldn't fit into an ordinary letter-box. For once the Royal Mail deserves praise.