Nick Turvey

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  • Legacy

    Legacy

    2019. Alabaster. 40 x 40 x 16 cm.

    My father gave me a block of alabaster as a birthday present. It sat around for a year or two while I thought of something appropriate to do with it. Then he died, and the decision became even more charged. I thought about all the knowledge and interests and values that I admired about him, and which I aspire to emulate. They became embodied in objects and symbols, wrapped as a present, decorated with a bow, and owing something to the tradition of veiled funeral sculpture.

  • For Your Safety & Security

    For Your Safety & Security

    2014. Vitrines, wallpaper, nylon and acrylic paint. Each 53 x 65 x 7 cm.

    Marcel Duchamp suggested to Richard Hamilton that he produce his own versions of classical genres, prompting Hamilton’s 1970′s ‘Flowers and Shit’ series, to which I have responded with my own flower paintings, infested with weaponised insects.

  • For Your Safety & Security – Eglantine 1

    For Your Safety & Security – Eglantine 1

    2014. Vitrine, wallpaper, nylon and acrylic paint. 70 x 75 x 7 cm.

    Marcel Duchamp suggested to Richard Hamilton that he produce his own versions of classical genres, prompting Hamilton’s 1970′s ‘Flowers and Shit’ series, to which I have responded with my own flower paintings, infested with weaponised insects.

  • For Your Safety & Security – Eglantine 1 (detail)

    For Your Safety & Security – Eglantine 1 (detail)

    2014. Vitrine, wallpaper, nylon and acrylic paint. 70 x 75 x 7 cm.

  • For Your Safety & Security – Abundance 1 (detail)

    For Your Safety & Security – Abundance 1 (detail)

    2014. Vitrine, wallpaper, nylon and acrylic paint. 53 x 65 x 7 cm.

    Marcel Duchamp suggested to Richard Hamilton that he produce his own versions of classical genres, prompting Hamilton’s 1970’s ‘Flowers and Shit’ series, to which I have responded with my own flower paintings.

  • For Your Safety & Security – Madras Violet (detail)

    For Your Safety & Security – Madras Violet (detail)

    2014. Vitrine, wallpaper, nylon and acrylic paint. 53 x 65 x 7 cm.

    Weaponised insects are camouflaged to blend in with floral wallpaper.

  • All Alone Together

    All Alone Together

    Solo exhibition

    Gibberd Gallery

    19 June-23 August 2013

    The Watergardens, Harlow, Essex

    Three sculptural installations – claustrophobic, defensive spaces reminiscent of military bunkers – have been built in the gallery, and individuals and groups in Harlow are invited to make use of them. Here is an opportunity to examine the meaning of selfhood and togetherness, developing the idea of a community art gallery as a place of meeting and action.

    Image: Bunkers 1,2 & 3

  • Interesting Times

    Interesting Times

    Group exhibition

    University of Leicester Botanic Garden

    Curated by Almuth Tebbenhoff

    July to October 2012

    Image: ‘Everything Is Under Control’

    One of two installations at ‘Interesting Times’