Farm Shop Organic Free Range Eggs

Oil and acrylic on canvas

Eggs

Appropriation

Art History

Food

Domestic

Forgery

Vessels

Disguise

Painting

Ursula's Apple

Painted bronze

Apples

Trompe L'oeil

Waste

Painted Bronze

Just Stop Soup

Warhol

Revolution

Cans

Gold Banana

Gold leaf and acrylic paint on canvas

Alchemy

Klein

You must be having a giraffe (laugh)! This is not a giraffe, it’s a banana stuck to the wall with duct tape and now at a point of decompositional stasis. 
 
The work, a successful trompe l’oeil, cast bronze, painted and sculptured to resemble a black banana stuck to the art fair booth by Duct tape. Referencing the artwork cultural moment/meme Comedian by Maurizio Cattelan. 

On the inner curve of the banana, is a Rainforest alliance sticker, a picture of a cute Amazonian tree frog, which alludes to the real Amazon which is cut down and replaced by single crop banana plantations, to fed western consumer needs, not so cute. 


Giraffe  

You must be having a giraffe (laugh)! This is not a giraffe, it’s a banana stuck to the wall with duct tape and now at a point of decompositional stasis. The work, a successful trompe l’oeil, cast bronze, painted and sculptured to resemble a black banana stuck to the art fair booth by Duct tape. Referencing the artwork cultural moment/meme Comedian by Maurizio Cattelan. On the inner curve of the banana, is a Rainforest alliance sticker, a picture of a cute Amazonian tree frog, which alludes to the real Amazon which is cut down and replaced by single crop banana plantations, to fed western consumer needs, not so cute.

Fruit

Sculpture

You must be having a giraffe (laugh)! This is not a giraffe, it’s a banana stuck to the wall with duct tape and now at a point of decompositional stasis. The work, a successful trompe l’oeil, cast bronze, painted and sculptured to resemble a black banana stuck to the art fair booth by Duct tape. Referencing the artwork cultural moment/meme Comedian by Maurizio Cattelan.

Transubstantiation

Paint on brown paper bag in skip

Packaging

'Ceremonial Biscuit', a life-size biscuit cast in 18ct gold, is a pendant that balances it’s precious medium, with the strong contrast of its subject - the unvalued, partially eaten biscuit. Typical of Turk’s artistic practice the signature is a central part of the work. Clear and legible on the biscuit’s face each signature is hand-engraved by the artist.

Ceremonial Biscuit (Gold)

18k Gold

Blighty 

A bronze cast of a discarded, half eaten apple core, with a long stalk and pip showing, painted to look real. Eaten and then thrown away, Turk takes the discarded, shrivelled and dead and gives it new life in the form of miniature painted bronze sculptures. Heavy with the symbolism of an English Eden, these once ripe fruits, alongside their associations with knowledge and temptation, Adam’s apple and of course, Eve, have been discarded and tossed away. Now “rotten to the core”, the fruits of the utopian English garden have become a poisonous symbol of man’s fall. Or perhaps they are nothing more ominous than evidence of a healthy diet in which their daily consumption contains the promise to keep the doctor away.

Given

A bronze cast of a discarded, half eaten apple core, with a long stalk and pip showing, painted to look real.

Banana

Yellow neon

Installation info: Handle carefully with gloves, ensuring when placed it is done so gently as painted edges are fragile. Ensure signed underside is face down.  Avoid direct sunlight, temperature fluctuations and moisture.  A tiny security pin can fix the underside of the piece to a surface if required for installation.A fired clay sculpture of a can, a cup, a matchbox, a chip tray and an apple core placed into a reading vitrine and displayed like relics.

2011 AD

5 Fired clay items on linen-covered plinth (previously in a steel reading case - see installation pictures).

Installation info: Handle carefully with gloves, ensuring when placed it is done so gently as painted edges are fragile. Ensure signed underside is face down. Avoid direct sunlight, temperature fluctuations and moisture. A tiny security pin can fix the underside of the piece to a surface if required for installation.A fired clay sculpture of a can, a cup, a matchbox, a chip tray and an apple core placed into a reading vitrine and displayed like relics.

Clay

Installation info: Handle carefully with gloves, ensuring when placed it is done so gently as painted edges are fragile. Ensure signed underside is face down. Avoid direct sunlight, temperature fluctuations and moisture. A tiny security pin can fix the underside of the piece to a surface if required for installation. A fired clay sculpture of a can, a cup, a matchbox, a chip tray and an apple core placed into a reading vitrine and displayed like relics.

Bronze cast of a discarded fast food chip tray painted to look as real as possible.Finding beauty in the trashy and ugly, Turk gives the polystyrene used chip tray &ndash; alongside with its cousin the burger tray &ndash; 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&rsquo;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.

Chip Butty

Bronze cast of a discarded fast food chip tray painted to look as real as possible.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.

A bronze cast of a crushed polystyrene chip tray, painted to look real.

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.

Cod and Chips to Take Away

Polystyrene

A bronze cast of a crushed polystyrene chip tray, painted to look real. 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.

Turkey Foil Box x 4

Silkscreen ink on Plywood

Consume

Self-Portrait

Silkscreen

Sticker on paper

Work on paper

Turkey Foil Box

Mirrors

Installation info: Handle carefully with gloves, ensuring when placed it is done so gently as painted edges are fragile. Ensure signed underside is face down. Avoid direct sunlight, temperature fluctuations and moisture. A tiny security pin can fix the underside of the piece to a surface if required for installation.A bronze cast of a shrivelled apple core with green skin and a long stalk, painted to look real.Eaten and then thrown away, Turk takes the discarded, shrivelled and dead and gives it new life in the form of miniature painted bronze sculptures. Heavy with the symbolism of an English Eden, these once ripe fruits, alongside their associations with knowledge and temptation, Adam’s apple and of course, Eve, have been discarded and tossed away. Now “rotten to the core”, the fruits of the utopian English garden have become a poisonous symbol of man’s fall. Or perhaps they are nothing more ominous than evidence of a healthy diet in which their daily consumption contains the promise to keep the doctor away.

Prone Apple Core

Installation info: Handle carefully with gloves, ensuring when placed it is done so gently as painted edges are fragile. Ensure signed underside is face down. Avoid direct sunlight, temperature fluctuations and moisture. A tiny security pin can fix the underside of the piece to a surface if required for installation.A bronze cast of a shrivelled apple core with green skin and a long stalk, painted to look real.

Installation info: Handle carefully with gloves, ensuring when placed it is done so gently as painted edges are fragile. Ensure signed underside is face down.  Avoid direct sunlight, temperature fluctuations and moisture.  A tiny security pin can fix the underside of the piece to a surface if required for installation.A bronze cast of a shrivelled, browning apple core with reddish skin and a long stalk, painted to look real.Eaten and then thrown away, Turk takes the discarded, shrivelled and dead and gives it new life in the form of miniature painted bronze sculptures. Heavy with the symbolism of an English Eden, these once ripe fruits, alongside their associations with knowledge and temptation, Adam’s apple and of course, Eve, have been discarded and tossed away. Now “rotten to the core”, the fruits of the utopian English garden have become a poisonous symbol of man’s fall. Or perhaps they are nothing more ominous than evidence of a healthy diet in which their daily consumption contains the promise to keep the doctor away.

The Fall

Installation info: Handle carefully with gloves, ensuring when placed it is done so gently as painted edges are fragile. Ensure signed underside is face down. Avoid direct sunlight, temperature fluctuations and moisture. A tiny security pin can fix the underside of the piece to a surface if required for installation.A bronze cast of a shrivelled, browning apple core with reddish skin and a long stalk, painted to look real.Eaten and then thrown away, Turk takes the discarded, shrivelled and dead and gives it new life in the form of miniature painted bronze sculptures. Heavy with the symbolism of an English Eden, these once ripe fruits, alongside their associations with knowledge and temptation, Adam’s apple and of course, Eve, have been discarded and tossed away. Now “rotten to the core”, the fruits of the utopian English garden have become a poisonous symbol of man’s fall. Or perhaps they are nothing more ominous than evidence of a healthy diet in which their daily consumption contains the promise to keep the doctor away.

Installation info: Handle carefully with gloves, ensuring when placed it is done so gently as painted edges are fragile. Ensure signed underside is face down. Avoid direct sunlight, temperature fluctuations and moisture. A tiny security pin can fix the underside of the piece to a surface if required for installation. A bronze cast of a shrivelled, browning apple core with reddish skin and a long stalk, painted to look real. Eaten and then thrown away, Turk takes the discarded, shrivelled and dead and gives it new life in the form of miniature painted bronze sculptures.

A life size watercolour of an apple core.

New Beginnings

Fourteen framed watercolours on paper

A life size watercolour of an apple core.

A life size watercolour of an apple core.

The Doctors Holiday

A life size watercolour of an apple core.

Wattle &amp; Daub

Wattle & Daub

Cod &amp; Chips to Go 

Cod & Chips to Go 

Having previously made work with tea stains on watercolour paper, Turk produced a limited edition run of signed Rich Tea biscuits for the 2006 Art Car Boot Fair, the original biscuit having been both signed and bitten by the artist. He views tea (and biscuits) as essential to the clich&eacute;d cultural history of Britain as a tea-drinking nation, as much a part of the landscape as Constable, Henry Moore and William Morris a kind of &lsquo;Rusk&rsquo;inian romanticism. Importantly, the biscuits have a bite out of them. &ldquo;The bite disrupted the circularity of the biscuit, it was almost like the loss of innocence, the bite of the Apple&rdquo;

Rich Tea Biscuit

Bitten and signed rich tea biscuit

Readymade

Ready Made

Having previously made work with tea stains on watercolour paper, Turk produced a limited edition run of signed Rich Tea biscuits for the 2006 Art Car Boot Fair, the original biscuit having been both signed and bitten by the artist. He views tea (and biscuits) as essential to the clichéd cultural history of Britain as a tea-drinking nation, as much a part of the landscape as Constable, Henry Moore and William Morris a kind of ‘Rusk’inian romanticism. Importantly, the biscuits have a bite out of them.

A bronze cast of a shrivelled, browning apple core with reddish skin and a long stalk, painted to look real.Eaten and then thrown away, Turk takes the discarded, shrivelled and dead and gives it new life in the form of miniature painted bronze sculptures. Heavy with the symbolism of an English Eden, these once ripe fruits, alongside their associations with knowledge and temptation, Adam&rsquo;s apple and of course, Eve, have been discarded and tossed away. Now &ldquo;rotten to the core&rdquo;, the fruits of the utopian English garden have become a poisonous symbol of man&rsquo;s fall. Or perhaps they are nothing more ominous than evidence of a healthy diet in which their daily consumption contains the promise to keep the doctor away.

A bronze cast of a shrivelled, browning apple core with reddish skin and a long stalk, painted to look real.

A bronze cast of a wooden chip fork painted to look real.

Just a Chip Fork

A bronze cast of a wooden chip fork painted to look real.

A bronze cast of a 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 &ndash; alongside with its cousin the burger tray &ndash; 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&rsquo;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.

Chip Tray

Resin & painted bronze

A bronze cast of a 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.

Chewing gum cast in resin set into 24 carat gold cufflinks.

chewing gum cufflinks

Resin & 24 carat gold

Chewing gum cast in resin set into 24 carat gold cufflinks.

Chewing gum cast in resin set into 24 carat gold earrings.

Chewing Gum Earrings

Chewing gum cast in resin set into 24 carat gold earrings.

A bronze cast of a small polystyrene cup painted with green smears to resemble the leftover traces of mushy peas.

Peas &amp; Love

A bronze cast of a small polystyrene cup painted with green smears to resemble the leftover traces of mushy peas.

Farm Shop Organic Free Range Eggs

Ursula's Apple

Just Stop Soup

Umm

Gold Banana

Add

Giraffe

Transubstantiation

Ceremonial Biscuit (Gold)

Given

Banana

2011 AD

Chip Butty

Cod and Chips to Take Away

Turkey Foil Box x 4

Yes

Turkey Foil Box

Prone Apple Core

The Fall

New Beginnings

The Doctors Holiday

Wattle & Daub

Cod & Chips to Go

Rich Tea Biscuit

The Fall

Just a Chip Fork

Chip Tray

chewing gum cufflinks

Chewing Gum Earrings

Peas & Love