Gavin Turk: Turkish Tulips (Bowes Museum)

The image shows a negative scan of a dutch master piece by Rob and Nick Carter — Courtesy of Live Stock Market Ltd. & Gavin Turk

Image shows a bronze cast match box, and a spent match — Courtesy of Live Stock Market Ltd. & Gavin Turk

A bronze cast of a Tulip — Courtesy of Live Stock Market Ltd. & Gavin Turk

Image shows a furnished room, with carpet and table and chairs — Courtesy of Live Stock Market Ltd. & Gavin Turk

An image shows a black tulip painted with text, the artwork is by Fiona Banner

An image shows an installation of silver plates and table cloth, to the right hand side a photograph of a Tulip by Charles Jones

An image of Rory McEwan's watercoloured Tulip

Tom Gallant's artwork is shown, it's an intricate hand cut stenciled work, layered

Turkish Tulips (Bowes Museum)

29 Jul 17

The Bowes Museum

As part of its 125th anniversary celebrations, The Bowes Museum presented two extraordinary simultaneous summer exhibitions for the young and the young-at-heart. Leading contemporary artist Gavin Turk and The House of Fairy Tales, the imaginative children’s arts charity, inspired symbolic stories of horticulture in these captivating shows.

Turkish Tulips was woven through the decorative halls of The Bowes Museum as an exquisite art adventure. It presented new works by Gavin Turk, in collaboration with a host of renowned contemporaries including Damien Hirst, Michael Craig-Martin, Cornelia Parker, Sir Peter Blake, Fiona Banner, Mat Collishaw, Adam Dant and Yinka Shonibare MBE.

Interwoven amongst The Bowes Museum’s permanent collection, the exhibition delves into the complex and paradoxical story of tulips as the artists mine the rich vein of secrets behind this iconic bloom. The complementary exhibition - The Clockwork Garden – was a bewitching show from The House of Fairy Tales.