Michael Cox’s paintings are united by the artist’s persistent interest in censorship, confiscation, and the role art plays in society at large. Born from photographic documentation of art once deemed dissident or ‘degenerate’ under Nazi rule, this is a body of work in which painterly dexterity meets conceptual rigour. It is interesting to look at a painting, knowing you are seeing the reverse of another once confiscated and locked away, removed from the public eye. Among these works were the paintings by Pablo Picasso and sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck seen in Paintings: a painterly reproduction of an uncredited 1937 photograph of these artworks as they were stored in Niederschönhausen Castle, Berlin.