Exhibitions2014We Are One
![Blue, yellow and red neon lights against a black backdrop](https://cms.gavinturk.com/files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/2022-07/18998_xlarge.jpg?itok=5DKbPq7G)
![A neon image of a candle against a black background](https://cms.gavinturk.com/files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/2022-07/18971_xlarge.jpg?itok=j3ctZo1u)
![Green, yellow and white neon images on black backdrops](https://cms.gavinturk.com/files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/2022-07/19009_xlarge.jpg?itok=HAXiihd5)
![A white neon eye with dotted lines protruding from it and a red neon lobster on a black backdrop](https://cms.gavinturk.com/files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/2022-07/19012_xlarge.jpg?itok=LOI0R2U3)
![A white neon candle; a yellow and red neon matchstick with a flame; a red neon maltese cross against a backdrop](https://cms.gavinturk.com/files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/2022-07/19013_xlarge.jpg?itok=ikcDv6KE)
![A red neon nail in the wall on a black backdrop, the reflection of a yellow neon banana reflected in a glass window overlooking a grassy garden](https://cms.gavinturk.com/files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/2022-07/19014_xlarge.jpg?itok=vQPSc88M)
![A yellow and red matchtstick with flame and a red neon maltese cross against black backdrops reflected a glass window](https://cms.gavinturk.com/files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/2022-07/19015_xlarge.jpg?itok=PCENmr1z)
![A large black sculpture of a nail stood upright in a grassy garden](https://cms.gavinturk.com/files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/2022-07/19016_xlarge.jpg?itok=g6So9n_c)
![A large rectangular black object with a tree depicted](https://cms.gavinturk.com/files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/2022-07/19017_xlarge.jpg?itok=gNWXYhY8)
![A sculpture of a freestanding doorway in a grassy garden with a dog and a house in the background](https://cms.gavinturk.com/files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/2022-07/19018_xlarge.jpg?itok=CCfsoh7T)
We Are One
8 Nov 14
New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery Roche Court
We Are One brought together many of Turk’s neon works, signature pieces made between 1995 and 2013, which show the evolution of his practice, quite literally, in lights; their glow, suitably enough for Turk, has the aura of consumer fetish, celebrity and glamour.
Turk often co-opts and transforms original meaning and many of his neon works turn everyday objects into luminous symbols. Hence a banana and a lobster channel the spirit of Warhol and Duchamp, in order to create Turk's own-brand logos.
Visually reduced to minimal typographies, other works offer signs of communication in its simplest form: a seeing eye, a flickering flame, primordial hieroglyphs, with their ancient mysteries and secrets, evolved to modern day usage.