Cast bronze on Portland stone plinth

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Ariadne

Art History

Sculpture

Ariadne Wrapped

Ariadne Wrapped Maquette

Ariadne (Wrapped Waste)

Public Sculpture

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.

H.M.S Ariadne

Painted bronze

Trompe L'oeil

Waste

Packaging

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 polystyrene carving of a reclining woman lying on a double plinth based on De Chirico's obsessive series of paintings of the sculpture &lsquo;Ariadne&rsquo;.

Polystyrene balls and polymer on canvas

Polystyrene

Outsider

A polystyrene carving of a reclining woman lying on a double plinth based on De Chirico's obsessive series of paintings of the sculpture ‘Ariadne’.

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.

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.

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.

Apples

Mythology

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.

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.

Installation info: The maze can be installed inside or outside on a suitably flat foundation. The bottom edge of the panels should be fixed to the ground if installed in a public space.A maze made from two way mirrored glass.

The Golden Thread

Aluminium Frame, laminated Glass and mirror film

Aluminium Frame, laminated glass and mirror film

Labyrinths

Mirrors

Installation

Installation info: The maze can be installed inside or outside on a suitably flat foundation. The bottom edge of the panels should be fixed to the ground if installed in a public space.A maze made from two way mirrored glass.

A small loosely worked maquette of the ‘Ariadne’ sculpture, with the addition of a begging cup, from the paintings by De Chirico.

Rough Sleeper

Fired earthenware

Clay

A small loosely worked maquette of the ‘Ariadne’ sculpture, with the addition of a begging cup, from the paintings by De Chirico.

A small loosely worked maquette of the ‘Ariadne’ sculpture from the paintings by De Chirico.

Reclining figure

A small loosely worked maquette of the ‘Ariadne’ sculpture from the paintings by De Chirico.

An ink silhouette of Ariadne, based on the paintings of De Chirico.

The shadow of her former self

Acrylic ink on printed paper

Work on paper

An ink silhouette of Ariadne, based on the paintings of De Chirico.

An ink silhouette of Ariadne, based on the paintings of De Chirico

Her eclipse

An ink silhouette of Ariadne, based on the paintings of De Chirico

An ink silhouette of Ariadne, based on the paintings by De Chirico.

Reclining shadow

An ink silhouette of Ariadne, based on the paintings by De Chirico.

Her in Profile

An ink silhouette of Ariadne in a sleeping bag, based on the paintings by De Chirico

Ariadne in a sleeping bag

An ink silhouette of Ariadne in a sleeping bag, based on the paintings by De Chirico

A loosely worked sculpture of reclining woman lying on a double plinth based on De Chirico's paintings of ‘Ariadne’.

Stainless steel, marble dust & painted cement

A loosely worked sculpture of reclining woman lying on a double plinth based on De Chirico's paintings of ‘Ariadne’.

A small loosely worked bust of ‘Ariadne’ with her arm over her head, based on the paintings by De Chirico.

The Swimmer

A small loosely worked bust of ‘Ariadne’ with her arm over her head, based on the paintings by De Chirico.