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Coming through the doors into the room, I was greeted by a four-foot-high red-and-white striped statue, which looked as though it had been trapped in hazard tape.

Moving further in, passing a striking piece made up of adhesive memo notes on a backing of red fabric, I came to a huge ideas wall, covered in words that the artists associated with the theme of 'barriers' and used as their starting points for the works on show (for one day only, 4 August 2007).

My favourite piece was easily the giant acrylic work of skyscrapers and aeroplanes by Tanya Raabe and Rowena Keavaney. Stretching floor-to-ceiling, it showed just how imposing barriers can really be, but the bright colours and interesting shapes used made it prettier than you would expect a picture of a concrete metropolis to be.

However, I was also fascinated with David Burns' etchings on artificial limbs from days gone by. Lucille Power's performance art piece was also intriguing. It looked at first to be a bunch of helium-filled balloons but, on closer inspection, involved a study of the words associated with disability.

Tina Raabe said: "Dash has recruited seven artists to spend a week in the shop creating an installation and artwork, visual artwork, performances, to work collaboratively on the idea of barriers, and that's barriers in the broadest sense of the word that you can think of. So they could be physical barriers, they could be attitudinal barriers - any kind of barrier that you can think of."