Ursula's Apple

Painted bronze

Apples

Food

Trompe L'oeil

Waste

Painted Bronze

Eggs

Famously Magritte paints a pipe, with the painted words ‘ceci n’est pas une pipe.’, whereas here the artist presents two bananas and calls them ‘Spoons’.

Two bronze cast bananas painted in a cartoon playful fashion, displayed spooning each other – a minimal still life, abandoned by the rest of the fruit bowl. These bananas are an exotic and suggestive symbol of global trade, logistics, markets, and power as well as gender and sexuality. 

The artist is playfully homaging the history of bananas in art by artists such as Wayne Thiebaud, Georgio de Chirico and Andy Warhol.
 
In 2005 Gavin Turk produced a series of banana fruit stickers and in 2013 created a 4m neon Banana sculpture that was exhibited in his show at the Bowes Museum, more recently in October 2021 the Artist revealed a new painted bronze blackened banana 'Giraffe' at Frieze London as a nod to Maurizio Cattelan. 



Spoons

Famously Magritte paints a pipe, with the painted words ‘ceci n’est pas une pipe.’, whereas here the artist presents two bananas and calls them ‘Spoons’.Two bronze cast bananas painted in a cartoon playful fashion, displayed spooning each other – a minimal still life, abandoned by the rest of the fruit bowl. These bananas are an exotic and suggestive symbol of global trade, logistics, markets, and power as well as gender and sexuality. The artist is playfully homaging the history of bananas in art by artists such as Wayne Thiebaud, Georgio de Chirico and Andy Warhol. In 2005 Gavin Turk produced a series of banana fruit stickers and in 2013 created a 4m neon Banana sculpture that was exhibited in his show at the Bowes Museum, more recently in October 2021 the Artist revealed a new painted bronze blackened banana 'Giraffe' at Frieze London as a nod to Maurizio Cattelan.

Famously Magritte paints a pipe, with the painted words ‘ceci n’est pas une pipe.’, whereas here the artist presents two bananas and calls them ‘Spoons’. Two bronze cast bananas painted in a cartoon playful fashion, displayed spooning each other – a minimal still life, abandoned by the rest of the fruit bowl. These bananas are an exotic and suggestive symbol of global trade, logistics, markets, and power as well as gender and sexuality.

Bronze Momento

Etched bronze can 

Duchamp

Cans

Veg Box

Packaging

Consume

Ovum (Black Umber)

Patinated bronze

This work is an artists impression of a life sized door sculpture. The baseplate can be adapted to requirements such as being set in the ground.

This work is an artists impression of a life sized door sculpture. The baseplate can be adapted to requirements such as being set in the ground.

Doors

Small Door (Mint & Lime Green) 

Small Door (Mustard Yellow)

Pink Grid

Small Door (Green & Red) 

This work is an artists impression of a life sized door sculpture.

This work is an artists impression of a life sized door sculpture. 

Small Door (Mauve & Pale Blue) 

Painting of a Dustbin

Newton's Apple

Fragile Box

Anywhere not Somewhere Painting

Killer Filler

Fuit Hic (wrapped waste)

Wrapped

Rubbish

Unique un-numbered series of 8 Styrofoam Box

Butter Box

Unique un-numbered series of 8Styrofoam Box

Unique un-numbered series of 8 Styrofoam Box

The Rock of Egg Painting

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

Yard Box

Nonpareil

Blinker

Wrapped object from waste products used to make the show ‘Negotiation of Purpose’

Bronze Roller (Wrapped Waste)

Wrapped object from waste products used to make the show ‘Negotiation of Purpose’

Vache Painting

Waiting for Gavo Painting

Portrait of the Sailor Gentleman Jim Painting

Raw Sienna (Albers table)

Painted bronze, wood and glass

Embroidery

Etching

Film

Found Object

Glass

Installation

Mixed Media

Object Trouvé

Painting

Photographic Work

Public Sculpture

Ready Made

Sculpture

Silkscreen

Work on paper

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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