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

Painted bronze

Apples

Food

Painted Bronze

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 curved, browning apple core with large pips and red skin, 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.

Ariadne

Mythology

Waste

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 curved, browning apple core with large pips and red skin, painted to look real.

Ariadne (2006–2014) is a bronze sculpture painted to look like a crudely carved polystyrene approximation

of the Greek Goddess. The Italian metaphysical painter De Chirico used this reclining symbol as an archetype

of classicism in a series of surreal landscapes. By appearing to render her in this pernicious 20th century material, the artist makes a punkish throw-up in the consecrated gallery. In a nod to Tony Hancock’s ‘The Rebel’, he questions value and the history of western traditions through the degenerated male gaze.

Ariadne (2006–2014) is a bronze sculpture painted to look like a crudely carved polystyrene approximationof the Greek Goddess. The Italian metaphysical painter De Chirico used this reclining symbol as an archetypeof classicism in a series of surreal landscapes. By appearing to render her in this pernicious 20th century material, the artist makes a punkish throw-up in the consecrated gallery. In a nod to Tony Hancock’s ‘The Rebel’, he questions value and the history of western traditions through the degenerated male gaze.

Outsider

Polystyrene

Ariadne (2006–2014) is a bronze sculpture painted to look like a crudely carved polystyrene approximation of the Greek Goddess. The Italian metaphysical painter De Chirico used this reclining symbol as an archetype of classicism in a series of surreal landscapes. By appearing to render her in this pernicious 20th century material, the artist makes a punkish throw-up in the consecrated gallery. In a nod to Tony Hancock’s ‘The Rebel’, he questions value and the history of western traditions through the degenerated male gaze.

A black and white football pattern painted on an egg. Following in the footsteps of Dali, Magritte and Manzoni, eggs recurs again and again in Gavin’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’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 “hare” 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.

Study for Football Egg

Painted egg shell

A black and white football pattern painted on an egg.Following in the footsteps of Dali, Magritte and Manzoni, eggs recurs again and again in Gavin’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’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 “hare” 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.

Eggs

Football

Ready Made

A black and white football pattern painted on an egg. Following in the footsteps of Dali, Magritte and Manzoni, eggs recurs again and again in Gavin’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’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 “hare” eggs create mythical new hybrids altogether.

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.

The Doctors Holiday

Fourteen framed watercolours on paper

Work on paper

A life size watercolour of an apple core.

A bronze cast of a skinny apple core with a long stork painted to look real.

Conscious

Sculpture

A bronze cast of a skinny apple core with a long stork painted to look real.

A print of the Artist as Andy Warhol in black on a grey and mauve camouflage background.

Fright Wig Camouflage Grey and Mauve

Silkscreen ink and metallic paint on canvas

Camouflage

Warhol

Silkscreen

A print of the Artist as Andy Warhol in black on a grey and mauve camouflage background.

A bronze cast of a curved, browning apple core with large pips and red skin, 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.

A bronze cast of a curved, browning apple core with large pips and red skin, painted to look real.

A life size watercolour of an apple core.

Wattle &amp; Daub

Wattle & Daub

A bronze cast of a short, stubby apple core with green skin and pips showing, painted to look real.

The Be All and End All

The End

A bronze cast of a short, stubby apple core with green skin and pips showing, painted to look real.

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

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 greenish apple core with a whole around its pips, 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.

Exquisite Corpse

A bronze cast of a greenish apple core with a whole around its pips, painted to look real.

Five black bin bags printed on a white background. Inspired by Yves Klein's Anthropometric paintings.

Bags Begin to Fly

Diamond dust and acrylic paint on canvas

Acrylic paint and diamond dust on canvas

Bin Bags

Rubbish

Klein

Five black bin bags printed on a white background. Inspired by Yves Klein's Anthropometric paintings.

A bronze cast of an arched apple core with green skin and pips 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&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.

Grapple

A bronze cast of an arched apple core with green skin and pips showing, painted to look real.

Collage of a Font form made from newspaper.

News Font

Newsprint on paper

Font

Collage of a Font form made from newspaper.

A bronze cast of a long, fat, greenish apple core, 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.

Paradise Lost

A bronze cast of a long, fat, greenish apple core, painted to look real.

A bronze cast of egg shaped ball finished in chrome and displayed in the centre of a diagrammatic &lsquo;pitch&rsquo; with lines drawn in sports-type grass paint.

Eggball

Chrome finished bronze & paint on grass

Installation

A bronze cast of egg shaped ball finished in chrome and displayed in the centre of a diagrammatic ‘pitch’ with lines drawn in sports-type grass paint.

A life size watercolour of an apple core.

New Beginnings

A mask of the artists face surrounded by a hessian sack, as used for the Art Car Boot Fair 2006.

Car Boot Mask

Masks

A mask of the artists face surrounded by a hessian sack, as used for the Art Car Boot Fair 2006.

A bronze cast of an apple core, thin at one end and fat at the other, with a long stalk and pips 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.

Adam&rsquo;s Apple

Trompe L'oeil

A bronze cast of an apple core, thin at one end and fat at the other, with a long stalk and pips showing, painted to look real.

Adam's Apple

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup with a horizontal crack in the side, painted to look real.

Decrepid Smile

Cups

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup with a horizontal crack in the side, painted to look real.

A surveillance mirror signed ‘Gavin Turk’, named after the Richard Hamilton piece ‘slip it to me’.

The Second Coming

Engraved surveillance mirror

Signatures

A surveillance mirror signed ‘Gavin Turk’, named after the Richard Hamilton piece ‘slip it to me’.

A bronze cast of a browning apple core with red skin and pips 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.

Eve&rsquo;s Apple

A bronze cast of a browning apple core with red skin and pips showing, painted to look real.

Eve's Apple

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup stained with tea &amp; painted to look real.

Drained

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup stained with tea & painted to look real.

A bronze cast of a large, pale apple core with reddish skin, 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.

The Other

A bronze cast of a large, pale apple core with reddish skin, painted to look real.

A red outline of a polystyrene tea cup overlaid with a green outline to give the illusion that the cup is 3D.

3D Polystyrene Cup

Acrylic silkscreen on paper

Packaging

Illusion

A red outline of a polystyrene tea cup overlaid with a green outline to give the illusion that the cup is 3D.

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 polystyrene cup stained with tea &amp; painted to look real.

Conversation Piece

A bronze cast of a thin, shrivelled apple core with green skin, 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.

Cores and Effect

A bronze cast of a thin, shrivelled apple core with green skin, painted to look real.