{"id":1571,"date":"2022-01-18T20:00:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T19:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/?page_id=1571"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:56:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:56:27","slug":"the-tax-office-collages","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/?page_id=1571","title":{"rendered":"The Tax Office collages&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"proheadright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Tax_Office_Collage_01_padded.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1589 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Tax_Office_Collage_01_padded.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white a colour photogrpahic collage of the old tax office in Llanishen\" width=\"525\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Tax_Office_Collage_01_padded.jpg 525w, http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Tax_Office_Collage_01_padded-274x300.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"proheadleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Tax_Office_Collage_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1573\" src=\"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Tax_Office_Collage_02-200x50.jpg\" alt=\"Photograph of the tax office seen between two houses. Skyline has been drawn in\" width=\"200\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"proheadleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Tax_Office_Collage_09.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1716\" src=\"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Tax_Office_Collage_09-200x50.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"proheadleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Tax_Office_Collage_03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1574\" src=\"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Tax_Office_Collage_03-200x50.jpg\" alt=\"The tax office peeps over a roof. Squared paper is collaged behind\" width=\"200\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"proheadleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Tax_Office_Collage_04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1575\" src=\"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Tax_Office_Collage_04-200x50.jpg\" alt=\"The tax office towers above some houses. Rays of blue, green and yello light have been added\" width=\"200\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"proheadleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Tax_Office_Collage_05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1576\" src=\"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Tax_Office_Collage_05-200x50.jpg\" alt=\"Collage of a sculptural form and the tax office\" width=\"200\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"proheadleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Tax_Office_Collage_06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1577\" src=\"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Tax_Office_Collage_06-200x50.jpg\" alt=\"Sculptural form and photo fo tax office are collaged on a wall\" width=\"200\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"proheadleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Tax_Office_Collage_10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1580 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Tax_Office_Collage_10-200x50.jpg\" alt=\"The tax office appears on the horizon, with a drawn sunburst behind\" width=\"200\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"proheadtext\">\n<h3 class=\"protext\">The Tax Office collages<\/h3>\n<p><strong>2020 &#8211; 2024<br \/>\n<\/strong>Collage and coloured pencil on paper<br \/>\nAll smaller than A4<\/p>\n<p>A series refelecting on the presence of the old <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Llanishen\">Tax Office in Llanishen<\/a>, Cardiff. One of the few highrise buildings in North Cardiff, it was quietly omnipresent. Lurking quietly in the background locally and seen from many other places in the city. It&#8217;s brutalist days were numbered &#8211; the site had long been ear-marked for demolition. Current plans will see a new high school built there after developers abandoned plans for building new houses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Also present in some of the collages are the sculptural forms of <a href=\"https:\/\/garthevans.com\/portfolio\/sculpture\/nggallery\/sculpture\/sculpture-1980-90\/page\/3\">Garth Evans.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"proheadtext\">\n<p>The Tax Office also features in <a href=\"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/?page_id=1549\">Distant Places (N&amp;W)I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See more <a href=\"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/?page_id=1600\">collages of Cardiff<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){\n  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),\n  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)\n  })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga');<\/p>\n<p>  ga('create', 'UA-50168044-1', 'cbrueton.co.uk');\n  ga('send', 'pageview');<\/p>\n<p><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tax Office collages 2020 &#8211; 2024 Collage and coloured pencil on paper All smaller than A4 A series refelecting on the presence of the old Tax Office in Llanishen, Cardiff. One of the few highrise buildings in North Cardiff, it was quietly omnipresent. Lurking quietly in the background locally and seen from many other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1571"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1747,"href":"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1571\/revisions\/1747"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cbrueton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}