Gale Pitt’s ‘The Tornado’ is essentially a montage of everyday objects and animals (food, furniture, frogs and so on) on a background of peaceful countryside. Only when you see the cows and sheep panicking, running for their lives, and the people who have been spared from the tornado’s greedy mouth, do you realise that it [...]

No need to worry about catching MRSA in the hospital depicted in Jan van Haasteren’s ‘Get well soon!’ The dangers here are incompetence, extreme disorganization and, perhaps, just a touch of madness. Nowhere else (except maybe in a Carry On film) will you see ripsaw-wielding surgeons chasing their patients round the hospital. One white-coated doctor [...]

Most people, whether they are religious or not, know the story of Noah and his ark. The story of a global flood, in fact, goes back thousands of years, long before most of today’s religions were born.
Christian artist, Tom duBois, brings the Flood story to life in ‘The Invitation’. Its vivid realism makes it [...]

This Ravensburger puzzle, with high-quality (though slightly loose-fitting) pieces, is a montage inspired by adverts from the 1960s, showing the modern conveniences that every would-be domestic diva dreams of: washing machines, vacuum cleaners, household cleaning products and more efficient steam irons. All the women are depicted with big happy grins, as if making the perfect [...]