Playworn Pig

Enamel, acrylic, wood and fibreglass

Trompe L'oeil

Animalia

Public Sculpture

A large charity box, originally of a Panda sitting on a rock, altered by the Artist leaving just the rock. Created in aid of the World Wildlife Foundation exhibition and auction &lsquo;Pandamonium&rsquo;.

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Painted resin

Readymade

Ready Made

A large charity box, originally of a Panda sitting on a rock, altered by the Artist leaving just the rock. Created in aid of the World Wildlife Foundation exhibition and auction ‘Pandamonium’.

A giant egg covered with hare pelt placed on bricks made of wood in reference to Magritte, Brancusi, Manzoni, Andre and Beuys. Following in the footsteps of Dali, Magritte and Manzoni, eggs recurs again and again in Gavin&rsquo;s work as sculptural metaphors for the surreal philosophical puzzle; which came first, the chicken or egg? Symbols of life, of creation, of originality, fragility and mortality Turk&rsquo;s eggs appear as surreal faces, as giant duck eggs, as broken shells depicting his signature and in liquid form as mayonnaise and egg tempura, while his &ldquo;hare&rdquo; eggs create mythical new hybrids altogether. Transforming eggs from the sacred to the profane, the pure to the parasitical, a symbol of creation to something created, Turk journeys from eggs to eggs cups to egg-cup shaped fonts as he explores the delicate relationship between life and death, art and artist.

Hare Egg

Hare pelt, fibreglass and wood

Eggs

Magritte

Hair

Sculpture

A giant egg covered with hare pelt placed on bricks made of wood in reference to Magritte, Brancusi, Manzoni, Andre and Beuys.

A giant egg covered with black rabbit pelt placed on a wood brick plinth in reference to Meret Oppenheim, Rene Magritte, Constantin Brancusi, Piero Manzoni, Carl Andre and Joseph Beuys.

Duck Rabbit (Black)

Rabbit pelt, fibreglass and wood

A giant egg covered with black rabbit pelt placed on a wood brick plinth in reference to Meret Oppenheim, Rene Magritte, Constantin Brancusi, Piero Manzoni, Carl Andre and Joseph Beuys.

A giant egg covered with white rabbit pelt placed on four solid oak blocks in reference to Meret Oppenheim, Rene Magritte, Constantin Brancusi, Piero Manzoni, Carl Andre and Joseph Beuys.

Duck Rabbit

A giant egg covered with white rabbit pelt placed on four solid oak blocks in reference to Meret Oppenheim, Rene Magritte, Constantin Brancusi, Piero Manzoni, Carl Andre and Joseph Beuys.

A giant fibreglass egg painted to look like a wild turkey's egg. Turk has produced several of these large forms, based on the eggs of different bird species. The first of these works was commissioned for the 2001 exhibition ‘DEAD”, organized by the artist-led group Welfare State International. The exhibition explored alternative, celebratory approaches to the taboo of death, and each artist was invited to create non-traditional versions of the cultural trappings that surround death. Turk created ‘Coffin’, later re-titled ‘Oeuvre’. The collective title of the subsequent series of giant birds’ egg sculpture – ‘Oeuvre (Hen)’, ‘Oeuvre (Duck)’ etc – plays on the similarity between the word for the life’s work of an artist, ‘Oeuvre’, and the French word for egg, ‘oeuf’.

Oeuvre (Wild Turkey)

Painted fibreglass

A giant fibreglass egg painted to look like a wild turkey's egg.

A giant fibreglass egg painted to look like a duck egg.

Oeuvre (Duck)

A giant fibreglass egg painted to look like a duck egg.

A giant fibreglass egg painted to look like a speckled hen's egg.Turk has produced several of these large forms, based on the eggs of different bird species. The first of these works was commissioned for the 2001 exhibition ‘DEAD”, organized by the artist-led group Welfare State International. The exhibition explored alternative, celebratory approaches to the taboo of death, and each artist was invited to create non-traditional versions of the cultural trappings that surround death. Turk created ‘Coffin’, later re-titled ‘Oeuvre’. The collective title of the subsequent series of giant birds’ egg sculpture – ‘Oeuvre (Hen)’, ‘Oeuvre (Duck)’ etc – plays on the similarity between the word for the life’s work of an artist, ‘Oeuvre’, and the French word for egg, ‘oeuf’.

Oeuvre (Speckled Hen)

A giant fibreglass egg painted to look like a speckled hen's egg.

A giant fibreglass egg painted to look like a speckled hen's egg.Turk has produced several of these large forms, based on the eggs of different bird species. The first of these works was commissioned for the 2001 exhibition &lsquo;DEAD&rdquo;, organized by the artist-led group Welfare State International. The exhibition explored alternative, celebratory approaches to the taboo of death, and each artist was invited to create non-traditional versions of the cultural trappings that surround death. Turk created &lsquo;Coffin&rsquo;, later re-titled &lsquo;Oeuvre&rsquo;. The collective title of the subsequent series of giant birds&rsquo; egg sculpture &ndash; &lsquo;Oeuvre (Hen)&rsquo;, &lsquo;Oeuvre (Duck)&rsquo; etc &ndash; plays on the similarity between the word for the life&rsquo;s work of an artist, &lsquo;Oeuvre&rsquo;, and the French word for egg, &lsquo;oeuf&rsquo;.

A giant fibreglass egg painted to look like a brown hen's egg.Turk has produced several of these large forms, based on the eggs of different bird species. The first of these works was commissioned for the 2001 exhibition &lsquo;DEAD&rdquo;, organized by the artist-led group Welfare State International. The exhibition explored alternative, celebratory approaches to the taboo of death, and each artist was invited to create non-traditional versions of the cultural trappings that surround death. Turk created &lsquo;Coffin&rsquo;, later re-titled &lsquo;Oeuvre&rsquo;. The collective title of the subsequent series of giant birds&rsquo; egg sculpture &ndash; &lsquo;Oeuvre (Hen)&rsquo;, &lsquo;Oeuvre (Duck)&rsquo; etc &ndash; plays on the similarity between the word for the life&rsquo;s work of an artist, &lsquo;Oeuvre&rsquo;, and the French word for egg, &lsquo;oeuf&rsquo;.

Oeuvre (Hen)

A giant fibreglass egg painted to look like a brown hen's egg.

Ink drawing of birds that appear to be &lsquo;dropping&rsquo;.

Bird Dropping

Ink and crayon on paper

Work on paper

Ink drawing of birds that appear to be ‘dropping’.

A wooden carpenter's 'horse' with a tail sprouting out of one end.

Fitzy

Wood & hair

Outsider

A wooden carpenter's 'horse' with a tail sprouting out of one end.

Pair of crutches with Stuffed Robin resting on top displayed with framed text describing the piece.

M&uuml;nchausen&rsquo;s Robin

Glass and mixed media

Installation

Pair of crutches with Stuffed Robin resting on top displayed with framed text describing the piece.