A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup with the top part torn off, painted to look real.

The Wall Torn Down

Painted bronze

Polystyrene

Packaging

Cups

Sculpture

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup with the top part torn off, 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

Food

Readymade

Ready Made

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 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

Illusion

Silkscreen

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 polystyrene cup stained with tea &amp; painted to look real with a crack down the side.

Tea and Crack

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

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

Tea and Polystyrene

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

Five rows of three circular tea stains overlapped twice resembling cylindrical forms.

15 Cylinders

Tea on paper

Stain

Work on paper

Five rows of three circular tea stains overlapped twice resembling cylindrical forms.

A Celtic cross shape made of tea stained onto paper.

Old English Tea Drawing

A Celtic cross shape made of tea stained onto paper.

A paper tablecloth soiled with wine, bread &amp; cheese, signed and dated by the Artist.

Soiled paper tablecloth

Domestic

A paper tablecloth soiled with wine, bread & cheese, signed and dated by the Artist.