This catalogue documents Steven Shearer's exhibitions at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham and The Power Plant, Toronto in 2007 and includes sumptuous colour illustrations of Shearer's range of production – from posters to paintings, sculpture to text poems, ballpoint drawings to vast collected imagery. All Shearer's works derive from material that he collects in his extensive image bank or 'archive'. Comprising some 36,000 JPEGs, clippings, Xeroxes, reproductions, and found snapshots, the archive falls into eccentric categories—from 1970's teen idols, to Black/Death Metal bands, to children's play structures. As he recycles these images, Shearer applies a form of visual rhyming and punning. Teasing out formal associations among pictures within themes, he reveals unexpected, frequently hilarious, affinities. With essays contextualizing the work by curators Nigel Prince and Helena Reckitt, and Nancy Tousley, this book is the first to show the expansive range of Shearer's work.