To some art critics, William Scott's kitchen-table still lifes are too timid – as Roberta Smith wrote in The New York Times, they can be seen as 'abstract paintings for people who don't like abstraction'. Others, myself included, find them enticingly reduced and for the most part easily readable, which is part of their charm.

Stand before a work of art and you're sure to feel something. The recent toppling of monuments associated with slavery and colonialism across Europe and the US is the latest in a long line of more radical reactions.