This nocturnal scene is dominated by a dark, dense background. The hovering pale shapes and rough brushwork makes it hard to determine what we are looking at. ‘It helps, perhaps, that so much of industrial material is already abstract’, Prunella Clough once noted. The painting’s ghostly quality evokes the yellow floodlights of night-time security or the hazy pollution of urban sprawl. Clough’s interest in the overlooked infrastructure that dominates (and perhaps blights) our cities and suburbs was never intended to be illustrative. She rarely depicted a specific location in her paintings.