Domestos Original Bleach, Bio & Me Nutty and Seedy Granola, Ocado Ground Cinnamon, Waitrose Granola, Waitrose Balsamic Vinegar

Oil on linen

Art History

Domestic

Forgery

Vessels

Disguise

Painting

Crazy Jack Agave Syrup, Waitrose Granola, Thai Dragon Sriracha Hot Chilli Sauce, Ecover Toilet Cleaner, Scala Vegan Basil Pesto 

Bio & Me Nutty and Seedy Granola, Ecover Toilet Cleaner, Squeeze It Orange Drink

Borsec Mineral Water, Bio & Me Nutty and Seedy Granola, Waitrose Balsamic Vinegar, Crazy Jack Agave Syrup, Thai Dragon Sriracha Hot Chilli Sauce

Yeo Valley Semi Skimmed Milk, Waitrose Granola, Scala Vegan Basil Pesto, Waitrose Balsamic Vinegar

Crazy Jack Agave Syrup, Bio & Me Nutty and Seedy Granola, Ocado Ground Cinnamon, Stainswick Rapeseed Oil, Scala Vegan Basil Pesto, Tesco Table Salt

Farm Shop Organic Free Range Eggs

Oil and acrylic on canvas

Eggs

Appropriation

Food

Casa di Giorgio

Doors

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 Queequeg

Painted bronze

Waste

Packaging

Recycling

The Sea

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.

This kissing stone is made of a used granite curb stone from Hackney, historically granite paving stones signified investment and longevity, the road was a permanent placing, whereas the newly formed concrete or cement replacements give it a transient quality.

The viewer is asked to interact with the stone by kissing it. Reversing the usual ‘do not touch the art’ barrier between the viewer and the artwork, you are now asked to bend down and kiss it. In turn become part of the performance, one corner of the kissing stone is smoothed through a process that appears to be centuries of kissing. By touching the stone there is a transfer of energy, the performer is imbued with the gift of creativity. Reminding us of the rubbing of Buddhas belly or St. Peter’s foot in the Vatican, also the Blarney Stone, which when kissed endows the kisser with the gift of the gab.

There is a saying, that if you are to fall over and hit your face, possibly when you’re drunk, or pushed, it could be said that you have kissed the curb.

A small standing stone, alluding to a mystical marker of something buried underground.

Kissing Stone

Engraved granite stone

This kissing stone is made of a used granite curb stone from Hackney, historically granite paving stones signified investment and longevity, the road was a permanent placing, whereas the newly formed concrete or cement replacements give it a transient quality. The viewer is asked to interact with the stone by kissing it. Reversing the usual ‘do not touch the art’ barrier between the viewer and the artwork, you are now asked to bend down and kiss it. In turn become part of the performance, one corner of the kissing stone is smoothed through a process that appears to be centuries of kissing. By touching the stone there is a transfer of energy, the performer is imbued with the gift of creativity. Reminding us of the rubbing of Buddhas belly or St. Peter’s foot in the Vatican, also the Blarney Stone, which when kissed endows the kisser with the gift of the gab. There is a saying, that if you are to fall over and hit your face, possibly when you’re drunk, or pushed, it could be said that you have kissed the curb. A small standing stone, alluding to a mystical marker of something buried underground. [New text-AS]

Sculpture

This kissing stone is made of a used granite curb stone from Hackney, historically granite paving stones signified investment and longevity, the road was a permanent placing, whereas the newly formed concrete or cement replacements give it a transient quality.

H.M.S Ahab

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.Painted bronze cast of an open match box containing two matches

H.M.S Odyssey

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.Painted bronze cast of an open match box containing two matches

Trompe L'oeil

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. Painted bronze cast of an open match box containing two matches

H.M.S Ulysses

A carving of a candle made from the top of an old broom handle.

Dumb Candle

Wood & paint

Fire

A carving of a candle made from the top of an old broom handle.

An eternally spinning two pence coin on a table top.

50 / 50

Table & motorised 2 pence piece

Automaton

Money

An eternally spinning two pence coin on a table top.

A bronze cast of a pillow in a striped pillow case, painted to look real

Inheritance

A bronze cast of a pillow in a striped pillow case, painted to look real

A bronze cast of the middle of a toilet roll painted to look real.

Bog Roll 

A bronze cast of the middle of a toilet roll painted to look real.

Desert Island Scenario

Carved mahogany

Public Sculpture

A bronze cast of a figure curled up in a sleeping bag, painted to look real in purple with an orange lining.

At first sight this appears to be the form of a homeless sleeper. Wrapped in a sleeping bag cocoon, its title implies a wonderer living peripatetic life outside our cultural value systems. But the soft folds of the sleeping bag turn out to be hard metal, a painted bronze cast of this embarrassing cultural phenomenon. With uncompromising stillness the sculpture will never move or wander except at the behest of an art transport hoist. This image captured forever in the gallery, allows the viewer to wonder about lives led outside the ordinary; it gives them the power to stare.

Nomad

A bronze cast of a figure curled up in a sleeping bag, painted to look real in purple with an orange lining.

Fourteen framed water colours of rubbish bags, one made for every day of the week for two weeks. Each painting is individually dated along the bottom.

Two weeks worth

Fourteen framed watercolours on paper

Bin Bags

Rubbish

Work on paper

Fourteen framed water colours of rubbish bags, one made for every day of the week for two weeks. Each painting is individually dated along the bottom.

A paint roller made to look like bronze and displayed in a glass vitrine.

Having recognized white emulsion paint as the background canvas – the theatre backdrop of contemporary art – the Artist then put his mind to the tool that is used to apply the paint. The first piece was a wooden museum vitrine made in 1995 called ‘Paint, Two Rollers and a Brush’. This was a homage to the cultural significance or archeological importance of the gallery decorator and his tools. Displayed in the cabinet were several used objects straight out of the recently repainted gallery exactly as their title suggests. They are fresh and curious in their isolation. Looking at them through the imaginary eyes of an alien they appear angular and precise. Specialised tools for a specialized job. 
The most angular and specialized of all is the paint roller. A bent and twisted mark-making tool that covers a wall in white faster than you can blink. Cast in bronze – the traditional material of ‘Great Sculpture’ – the tool then becomes heavy and significant, instead of light and useful, allowing the viewer to study the detail of the everyday object: the tufts of the sheepskin roller, the ingeniously designed bent handle.

Gavin Turks 9&rdquo; Roller in Bronze

Roller, bronze powder, glue & paint in glass top vitrine

A paint roller made to look like bronze and displayed in a glass vitrine.

Gavin Turks 9" Roller in Bronze

Old formica yellow kitchen table with empty bottle of mineral water slowly spinning operated by a motor suspended underneath table.

Kitchen Table

Table & motorised glass bottle

Old formica yellow kitchen table with empty bottle of mineral water slowly spinning operated by a motor suspended underneath table.

A paint brush and two rollers dipped in emulsion and left in a paint tray, presented in a museum grade vitrine made of mahogany and glass.Having recognized white emulsion paint as the background canvas &ndash; the theatre backdrop of contemporary art &ndash; the Artist then put his mind to the tool that is used to apply the paint. This first piece was a wooden museum vitrine made in 1995 called &lsquo;Paint, Two Rollers and a Brush&rsquo;. This was a homage to the cultural significance or archeological importance of the gallery decorator and his tools. Displayed in the cabinet were several used objects straight out of the recently repainted gallery exactly as their title suggests. They are fresh and curious in their isolation. Looking at them through the imaginary eyes of an alien they appear angular and precise. Specialised tools for a specialized job. The most angular and specialized of all is the paint roller. A bent and twisted mark-making tool that covers a wall in white faster than you can blink. Cast in bronze &ndash; the traditional material of &lsquo;Great Sculpture&rsquo; &ndash; the tool then becomes heavy and significant, instead of light and useful, allowing the viewer to study the detail of the everyday object: the tufts of the sheepskin roller, the ingeniously designed bent handle.

Paint, Two Rollers and Brush

Roller, brush, paint tray & paint in vitrine

Readymade

Artist

Ready Made

A paint brush and two rollers dipped in emulsion and left in a paint tray, presented in a museum grade vitrine made of mahogany and glass.

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

Stain

Soiled paper tablecloth

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

A school style stool with the slot in the middle of the seat glazed with glass.