Caroline Coon’s Cambridge Gardens: On Anywhere Street he slips unnoticed... belongs to her sustained engagement with the social realities surrounding prostitution and the unequal structures of desire, money and power. Part of her Brothel series, the painting shifts attention from spectacle to anonymity: the male client passes through the street unseen, while the consequences of the encounter remain disproportionately attached to the women involved. Coon’s controlled figurative language resists moralising. Instead, she exposes the double standard by which male sexuality is concealed or excused, while female sexuality is scrutinised and stigmatised. The work turns an apparently ordinary urban moment into a critique of privilege, secrecy and social judgement.