Installation info: The maze can be installed inside or outside on a suitably flat foundation. The bottom edge of the panels should be fixed to the ground if installed in a public space.A maze made from two way mirrored glass.

The Golden Thread

Aluminium Frame, laminated Glass and mirror film

Aluminium Frame, laminated glass and mirror film

Ariadne

Labyrinths

Mirrors

Installation

Installation info: The maze can be installed inside or outside on a suitably flat foundation. The bottom edge of the panels should be fixed to the ground if installed in a public space.A maze made from two way mirrored glass.

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup stained with tea &amp; painted to look real with two green biro lines drawn on one side.

Painted bronze

Cups

Sculpture

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup stained with tea & painted to look real with two green biro lines drawn on one side.

A bronze cast of used polystyrene chip tray painted to look real with pieces of resin to resemble chip residue.

Finding beauty in the trashy and ugly, Turk gives the polystyrene used chip tray – alongside with its cousin the burger tray – a grandiose makeover, transforming rubbish into art in the form of a painted bronze sculpture. The remains of a traditional English dish and cheap street food for the masses, Turk’s chip trays become elegiac and nostalgic relics not just of a hearty meal but a set of cultural values which appear to be rapidly vanishing.

Chish &lsquo;n&rsquo; Fips

Polystyrene

Packaging

A bronze cast of used polystyrene chip tray painted to look real with pieces of resin to resemble chip residue. Finding beauty in the trashy and ugly, Turk gives the polystyrene used chip tray – alongside with its cousin the burger tray – a grandiose makeover, transforming rubbish into art in the form of a painted bronze sculpture. The remains of a traditional English dish and cheap street food for the masses, Turk’s chip trays become elegiac and nostalgic relics not just of a hearty meal but a set of cultural values which appear to be rapidly vanishing.

Chish 'n' Fips

A maze made from two way mirrored glass.

Outsider

A nail hammered into the middle of a piece of white A4 paper.

Metaphysical Nail

3 inch nail & paper

Readymade

Nail

Work on paper

A nail hammered into the middle of a piece of white A4 paper.

Five rows of three circular tea stains overlapped twice resembling cylindrical forms.

15 Cylinders

Tea on paper

Stain

Five rows of three circular tea stains overlapped twice resembling cylindrical forms.

Five rows of five tea rings overlaid over each other.

5 rows of 5

Five rows of five tea rings overlaid over each other.

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup stained with tea &amp; painted to look real with a burn hole in the side.

Butt

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup stained with tea & painted to look real with a burn hole in the side.

A print of the Artist as Joseph Beuys in brown with diamond dust on a black background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

In Memory of Joseph Beuys

Silkscreen on canvas with diamond dust 

Beuys

Faces

Icons

Appropriation

Celebrity

Silkscreen

A print of the Artist as Joseph Beuys in brown with diamond dust on a black background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

A Celtic cross shape made of tea stained onto paper.

Old English Tea Drawing

Food

A Celtic cross shape made of tea stained onto paper.

A bronze cast of a crumpled nylon sleeping painted to look real in burgundy with an off white lining.

Habitat (burgundy)

A bronze cast of a crumpled nylon sleeping painted to look real in burgundy with an off white lining.

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup stained with tea &amp; painted to look real.

To Take Away

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup stained with tea & painted to look real.

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup stained with tea &amp; painted to look real with a jagged split down one side.

Lightning Cup

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup stained with tea & painted to look real with a jagged split down one side.

Created in 2004, Tip exemplifies Gavin Turk’s ongoing investigation into authenticity within the art object. Using bronze, the material of Classical Greek sculpture, Turk has cast a rubbish bin bag seemingly stuffed full of unrecyclable matter. Made to look more real than reality, Tip is a true trompe l’oeil, an artistic technique that creates the illusion of space to challenge the divide between art and life. As Turk explains, ‘I am busy making things that are obviously not what they are’ in order to question what belongs within the gallery space (G. Turk quoted in D. Leader, ‘Gavin Turk: the analyst will unmask you now’, The Guardian, November 16, 2016). Illusion lets the artist comment on production, identity and capitalist structures, and he uses waste to critique consumption patterns, believing that what one discards is as insightful as what one keeps; detritus, for Turk, is a person’s anti-portrait and another way of staging the self. Turk was part of the Young British Artists who inaugurated a new era of British art in the 1990s, and he was included in Sensation, the provocative survey exhibition of YBA art held at the Royal Academy, London. 

Rubbish

Consume

Waste

Bin Bags

Painted Bronze

Created in 2004, Tip exemplifies Gavin Turk’s ongoing investigation into authenticity within the art object. Using bronze, the material of Classical Greek sculpture, Turk has cast a rubbish bin bag seemingly stuffed full of unrecyclable matter. Made to look more real than reality, Tip is a true trompe l’oeil, an artistic technique that creates the illusion of space to challenge the divide between art and life. As Turk explains, ‘I am busy making things that are obviously not what they are’ in order to question what belongs within the gallery space (G. Turk quoted in D.