A bronze cast of a full black bin bag painted to look real.A bag full of discarded products, unrecycled organic matter thrown in with the by-products of our wasteful consumerist lifestyles. This rubbish is encapsulated in the formal roundness of this classic trompe l’œuil artwork. We are defined by what we throw away and conversely we are deconstructed by what we choose to display in our hallowed museum halls.

Bag (10)

Painted bronze

Rubbish

Consume

Waste

Bin Bags

Painted Bronze

A bronze cast of a full black bin bag painted to look real.A bag full of discarded products, unrecycled organic matter thrown in with the by-products of our wasteful consumerist lifestyles. This rubbish is encapsulated in the formal roundness of this classic trompe l’œuil artwork. We are defined by what we throw away and conversely we are deconstructed by what we choose to display in our hallowed museum halls.

Installation info: place in a suitable position on the floorA bronze cast of a full black bin bag painted to look real.

Bag (11)

Installation info: place in a suitable position on the floorA bronze cast of a full black bin bag painted to look real.

Installation info: place in a suitable position on the floorBronze cast of a full, rounded rubbish bag painted to look real.

Bag (12)

Installation info: place in a suitable position on the floorBronze cast of a full, rounded rubbish bag painted to look real.

Bag (7)

Bag (8)

Bag (9)

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)

Painted fibreglass

Eggs

Animalia

Public Sculpture

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

Achrome Drawing

Coloured pencil on paperPrint of font

Work on paper

Acrome Drawing

A bronze cast of a melon, half painted in realist style with the skin surface of a classic watermelon, the other half blended into a briar wood paint pattern similar to that of an old fashioned pipe like that used by Magritte. The is an alchemy piece. It is the transmutation of a melon into briar wood (traditionally used to make pipes) but then you realize that it is actually made of bronze. The layers of material meaning multiply, until you are no longer sure of what you are looking at. The Artist has made many pieces of art inspired by the street. Cardboard boxes (‘Brillo’, 2002), bin bags in bronze (‘Bag’, 2001) and ‘Nomad’ (a figure in a sleeping bag cast in bronze). All these works are questioning value and status. The melon pieces are quirkier than that, watermelons having saucy, colloquial associations because of their size and succulence. But they are also a vegetable-like fruit often put on the floor outside shops because of their size. An urban boulder. The melon is not indigenous to this country and therefore represents the exotic: the unknown.

Wood ‘n’ Melon

A bronze cast of a melon, half painted in realist style with the skin surface of a classic watermelon, the other half blended into a briar wood paint pattern similar to that of an old fashioned pipe like that used by Magritte. The is an alchemy piece. It is the transmutation of a melon into briar wood (traditionally used to make pipes) but then you realize that it is actually made of bronze. The layers of material meaning multiply, until you are no longer sure of what you are looking at. The Artist has made many pieces of art inspired by the street. Cardboard boxes (‘Brillo’, 2002), bin bags in bronze (‘Bag’, 2001) and ‘Nomad’ (a figure in a sleeping bag cast in bronze). All these works are questioning value and status. The melon pieces are quirkier than that, watermelons having saucy, colloquial associations because of their size and succulence. But they are also a vegetable-like fruit often put on the floor outside shops because of their size. An urban boulder. The melon is not indigenous to this country and therefore represents the exotic: the unknown.

Food

Magritte

Pipes

Trompe L'oeil

A bronze cast of a melon, half painted in realist style with the skin surface of a classic watermelon, the other half blended into a briar wood paint pattern similar to that of an old fashioned pipe like that used by Magritte. The is an alchemy piece. It is the transmutation of a melon into briar wood (traditionally used to make pipes) but then you realize that it is actually made of bronze. The layers of material meaning multiply, until you are no longer sure of what you are looking at. The Artist has made many pieces of art inspired by the street.

A bronze cast of a full black bin bag painted to look real.A bag full of discarded products, unrecycled organic matter thrown in with the by-products of our wasteful consumerist lifestyles. This rubbish is encapsulated in the formal roundness of this classic trompe l&rsquo;&oelig;uil artwork. We are defined by what we throw away and conversely we are deconstructed by what we choose to display in our hallowed museum halls.

Sculpture

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;.

'Adolf Loos' typed in Saxon font in the shape of a cross displayed in an old oak frame.

Saxon

Inkjet on paper

Font

'Adolf Loos' typed in Saxon font in the shape of a cross displayed in an old oak frame.

A bronze cast of a large melon painted to resemble an over inflated liquorice pipe.

This is not a melon

Melons

A bronze cast of a large melon painted to resemble an over inflated liquorice pipe.

'Adolf Loos' typed in Trebouchet MS font in the shape of a cross and displayed in an old oak frame.

Trebouchet MS

'Adolf Loos' typed in Trebouchet MS font in the shape of a cross and displayed in an old oak frame.

Fourteen framed water colours of rubbish bags, one made for every day of the week for two weeks. Each painting is individually dated along the bottom.

Two weeks worth

Fourteen framed watercolours on paper

Domestic

Fourteen framed water colours of rubbish bags, one made for every day of the week for two weeks. Each painting is individually dated along the bottom.

A bronze cast of a cardboard box with a partially open top, painted to look real.

Brillo (III)

Packaging

A bronze cast of a cardboard box with a partially open top, painted to look real.