Artworks2006Cod & Chips to Go
Cod & Chips to Go
Painted bronze
4 x 21 x 31.5 cms
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.