In the exhibition’s final space Piper has created an installation that resembles a painting studio. Here four large, roughly-finished paintings on un-stretched and un-primed canvas face onto the street.

This installation, titled 'The Future History Painter’s Studio', references History Painting, a genre of large-scale, often allegorical, paintings that depict moments of drama from recent or contemporary history.

As ‘future projected history paintings of the present’, Piper’s work plays with the traditional notion of the cartoon as a preparatory drawing towards a proposed final master work. Referencing major 19th century history paintings by French artists Courbet and Gericault, the paintings depict stages in a narrative progress, leading to the eventual demise of the metaphorical Banker.

An accompanying ‘workstation’ – a trestle table overlaid with canvas on which are paintings of objects and the objects themselves - hints at some of the contradictions inherent in history painting as an activity.

Central to this installation are four ‘Future History Paintings’ Acrylic on un-stretched canvas. 3m wide by 2.8 high.