Installation info: Can be installed in different configurations under guidance by artist'The broken mirror maze degraded and shattered so it exists as a series of small corners or small barriers. Once proudly installed as a clinical, controlled and controlling architecture, the panels are now coated with distressed paper and the ingress of moisture behind the film. The milky failure of perfect material corrupted with the organic deposits of mildew and spores. The title as a thinly veiled spoken word play on Duchamp’s ‘the Large Glass’ refers to the eponymous Yard. That place of abandoned things contains the accumulation of human aspiration and cultural failure.  Smashed but preserved in a broken form, capitalising on the natural process of nature reclaiming even the most impenetrable of materials. The constituent parts create a mathematical labyrinth drifting apart like icebergs in the space. An ancient symbol now a dotted-line imbroglio. Reflecting back our shattered selves.'Text by Gavin Turk, 2015

The Yard Glass

Aluminium Frame, laminated glass, mirror film and paper residue

'The broken mirror maze degraded and shattered so it exists as a series of small corners or small barriers. Once proudly installed as a clinical, controlled and controlling architecture, the panels are now coated with distressed paper and the ingress of moisture behind the film. The milky failure of perfect material corrupted with the organic deposits of mildew and spores. The title as a thinly veiled spoken word play on Duchamp’s ‘the Large Glass’ refers to the eponymous Yard. That place of abandoned things contains the accumulation of human aspiration and cultural failure. Smashed but preserved in a broken form, capitalising on the natural process of nature reclaiming even the most impenetrable of materials. The constituent parts create a mathematical labyrinth drifting apart like icebergs in the space. An ancient symbol now a dotted-line imbroglio. Reflecting back our shattered selves.'Text by Gavin Turk, 2015

Labyrinths

Recycling

Duchamp

Sculpture

Installation info: Can be installed in different configurations under guidance by artist 'The broken mirror maze degraded and shattered so it exists as a series of small corners or small barriers. Once proudly installed as a clinical, controlled and controlling architecture, the panels are now coated with distressed paper and the ingress of moisture behind the film. The milky failure of perfect material corrupted with the organic deposits of mildew and spores. The title as a thinly veiled spoken word play on Duchamp’s ‘the Large Glass’ refers to the eponymous Yard.

Disembodied from any room, structure or building, this painted bronze door, which appears from its peeling varnish, to have been left to the elements from some years, opens or closes (depending on which way you look at it) onto infinite possibilities and nothingness, alike. A playful homage to William Blake’s famous doors of perception, visitors are invited to walk through Turk’s door into the enchanting realms of the imagination and beyond.

Ajar (White)

Painted bronze

Disembodied from any room, structure or building, this painted bronze door, which appears from its peeling varnish, to have been left to the elements from some years, opens or closes (depending on which way you look at it) onto infinite possibilities and nothingness, alike. A playful homage to William Blake’s famous doors of perception, visitors are invited to walk through Turk’s door into the enchanting realms of the imagination and beyond.

Doors

Painted Bronze

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

Ariadne

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.