Teager-Portman’s work, as long as I have known it, has possessed an innately grounded and formal essence that boasts a deeply Northern soul. His works display an uncomplicated, worker-man-like authenticity in their overall aesthetic. Everything is needed, nothing wasted and every part has been mindfully mulled over and thought out. There is something of a fifties attitude, when one had to make do. When you re-patched, re-painted, re-hashed, and that was enough to simply get a job done. Inherently the works cling on to this kind of a past. In this series, these components combine with references to passing Northern industries and dated domestic settings that remind me of my…