In Hobby Heroes Luan Nel appropriates the miniscule plastic figures from specialist train set kits, so beloved of the Hobbyists for whom trains, and anything to do with them, are a life-sustaining passion. He stages these surprisingly idiosyncratic figures, ranging from punks to boy scouts, in a number of curious situations. Against pristine white backgrounds, ranging in size from the monumental to the miniature, groups of figures ski imaginary mountain slopes, sun themselves in deck chairs, ice skate and ballroom dance. In Soveel an accordionist plays a tune for an absent audience while a blonde in a pink dress photographs what is some unknown scene a vast, intriguing distance from him. In the camp Skeer, a man dressed in a monk’s tunic shaves his chin. In some works the background is not white but an intense shade of red, yellow, blue or green. In Two Houses Down but Across the Road a lone fireman attempts to out out an overwhelmingly red fire with his canary yellow hose. In Grassny, Nel evokes the endless theatre of suburban lawn-mowing and in the humorous The Lesbians that Saved My Life a pair of women sunbathe nude against a hot yellow beach.