This work re-presents a safe, transforming it into a contemporary icon. Invested with mythological and economic significance. The object symbolises physical wealth in a world now dominated by a new belief system of data and digital currencies. 
 
‘I see Safe, as a ritualistic object, for me it acts as a sacred hearth or the golden egg’
 
This object triggers questions around value and security. This protective modern shaped container forever sealed shut is a found object, contents unknown.


Safe

Gold leaf on steel

This work re-presents a safe, transforming it into a contemporary icon. Invested with mythological and economic significance. The object symbolises physical wealth in a world now dominated by a new belief system of data and digital currencies. ‘I see Safe, as a ritualistic object, for me it acts as a sacred hearth or the golden egg’ This object triggers questions around value and security. This protective modern shaped container forever sealed shut is a found object, contents unknown.

Alchemy

Money

Sculpture

This work re-presents a safe, transforming it into a contemporary icon. Invested with mythological and economic significance. The object symbolises physical wealth in a world now dominated by a new belief system of data and digital currencies. ‘I see Safe, as a ritualistic object, for me it acts as a sacred hearth or the golden egg’ This object triggers questions around value and security. This protective modern shaped container forever sealed shut is a found object, contents unknown.

An eternally spinning two pence coin on a table top.

50 / 50

Table & motorised 2 pence piece

Automaton

Domestic

An eternally spinning two pence coin on a table top.

A rubbing of the Queens head side of a 2p coin.

Heads

Coloured pencil on paperPrint of font

Work on paper

A rubbing of the Queens head side of a 2p coin.

Coin rubbings of two different 2p coins, one showing an earlier version of the Royal effigy and the other showing the 1999 version.

Before and After

Coin rubbings of two different 2p coins, one showing an earlier version of the Royal effigy and the other showing the 1999 version.

An enlarged photocopy of the Queen's head side of 2p coin with a clay smear on the nose.

Small Brown Nose Queen

Clay on photocopied image

Forgery

An enlarged photocopy of the Queen's head side of 2p coin with a clay smear on the nose.

A pencil rubbing of the tales side of a two pence piece.

Lead Copper

Coloured pencil on paperPrint of font

A pencil rubbing of the tales side of a two pence piece.

Embroidery

Etching

Film

Found Object

Glass

Installation

Mixed Media

Object Trouvé

Painted Bronze

Painting

Photographic Work

Public Sculpture

Ready Made

Silkscreen

Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels

Ben Brown Fine Arts, London

David Nolan Gallery, New York

Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna

Maruani Mercier, Brussels & Knokke

Paul Stolper, London

Reflex, Amsterdam

Gavin Turk

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