A giant egg covered with hare pelt placed on bricks made of wood in reference to Magritte, Brancusi, Manzoni, Andre and Beuys. Following in the footsteps of Dali, Magritte and Manzoni, eggs recurs again and again in Gavin&rsquo;s work as sculptural metaphors for the surreal philosophical puzzle; which came first, the chicken or egg? Symbols of life, of creation, of originality, fragility and mortality Turk&rsquo;s eggs appear as surreal faces, as giant duck eggs, as broken shells depicting his signature and in liquid form as mayonnaise and egg tempura, while his &ldquo;hare&rdquo; eggs create mythical new hybrids altogether. Transforming eggs from the sacred to the profane, the pure to the parasitical, a symbol of creation to something created, Turk journeys from eggs to eggs cups to egg-cup shaped fonts as he explores the delicate relationship between life and death, art and artist.

Hare Egg

Hare pelt, fibreglass and wood

Eggs

Magritte

Animalia

Hair

Sculpture

A giant egg covered with hare pelt placed on bricks made of wood in reference to Magritte, Brancusi, Manzoni, Andre and Beuys.

A framed Dali style moustache on gold card.

Dali Moustache

Human hair & ink on gold card

Moustaches & Beards

Work on paper

A framed Dali style moustache on gold card.

A wooden carpenter's 'horse' with a tail sprouting out of one end.

Fitzy

Wood & hair

Outsider

A wooden carpenter's 'horse' with a tail sprouting out of one end.

Pencil drawing of a moustache, signed and dated by the Artist in bottom right corner.

100% Human Hair

Coloured pencil on paperPrint of font

Coloured pencil on paperPrint of font

Pencil drawing of a moustache, signed and dated by the Artist in bottom right corner.

Art History

A pencil drawing of a moustache &lsquo;flying&rsquo; over a landscape.

Facial Hair

A pencil drawing of a moustache ‘flying’ over a landscape.

Embroidery

Etching

Film

Found Object

Glass

Installation

Mixed Media

Object Trouvé

Painted Bronze

Painting

Photographic Work

Public Sculpture

Ready Made

Silkscreen

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

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