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For Art Basel Miami Beach 2017 Ingleby has assembled a group of artists who use found objects in different ways to transform the everyday into the exceptional. For some like David Batchelor, Kevin Harman or Jonathan Owen it is about rescuing and re-inventing objects that have become redundant: be that a string of plastic bottles, a discarded industrial window unit, or a C19th marble carving. For others, such as Roger Ackling’s careful burning of fragments of found wood, Winston Roeth’s pigment covered roof slates or Peter Liversidge’s gilded faces found in card, the motivation is about the …