Blake’s work carries a distinct and uniquely British Pop aesthetic, coupled with an acute awareness of American Pop culture. The emergence in the 1960s of a proliferating youth culture meant that postcards, magazines and record sleeves became legitimate source materials for art-making. Blake regarded the mass produced products of the new pop culture as descendants of the popular arts of the past. As such he looked to America for inspiration, film stars such as Marilyn Monroe, represented here by an inkjet and diamond dust print, and pop stars such as Elvis Presley, who in Blake’s lenticular is spirited away to Paris. In the UK popular culture also included weekly visits to wrestling matches and the Circus when it came to town, both populated by extraordinary fictitious characters which fed into his work, represented here by hand coloured etchings of the glamorous ‘Ms Super ★’ and ‘The African Queen’, as well as three international clowns ‘Popov’, ‘Coco’ and ‘Grock’.