The inside front of my new book is a duotone of the inside front of the Exbury Egg and the inside back is a duotone of the inside back. They top and tail 184 pages of stories, poems, speculation, art, mythology, science and alchemy illuminating the Eggman’s particular view of the world at a time of environmental, spiritual and economic woe.
The words arching over the sleeping platform in the image below are a quote from Walden (1854) by H D Thoreau:- ‘Shall I not have intelligence with the earth. Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mold myself’
Everything from the Egg is available from theartistsagency for £29 plus p&p (individual copies) and is distributed commercially by Artdata.co.uk
Everything from the Egg is now available from theartistsagency & Artdata
Individual copies from theartistsagency £29.00 Distributed by https://artdata.co.uk (for all commercial enquiries)
ISBN: 9781916432581 Hard Back, 184 pages, 17 cm x 22 cm
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‘The very idea of living and working afloat in an egg on a tidal estuary, going nowhere and everywhere under the stars set one’s imagination adrift in a whole new way’ Sue Clifford, co-founder Common Ground
I will be speaking about my project the Exbury Egg and life as its Eggman, as part of Art for Your World for The Royal Society of Sculptors tomorrow. Please follow the link below to book a free place.
The Giudecca Egg was made from waste plastic collected and donated by local people on the Venetian Island of Giudecca and exhibited at Palazzetto Tito, the home of the Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa during La Biennale de Venezia 2019; where it was part of Stephen Turner’s exhibition ‘Natura Prima?’
It was recently recreated as an installation in the Exbury Egg for the Thamesmead Festival 2021 on Saturday 14 August. Hundreds of local people enjoying the sunshine and the joy of being able to attend a live event for the first time in over a year, came to see both this and a corresponding exhibition in the Lakeside Centre by the Eggman Stephen Turner and associate artists Dani Tagen, Bhajan Hunjen, Joseph Griffiths and JD Swann (appearing courtesy of Calum F Kerr).
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Exhibition at the Lakeside Centre, Thamesmead for the Thamesmead Festival on 14 August 2021. Photos by Calum F Kerr and Vita Shaw (of JD Swann)
Bhajan Hunjan’s installation in Stephen Turner’s Exbury Egg at Thamesmead was very beautiful and had great synchronicity with the Egg’s own themes of new life, nurture and renewal as these photos and video show.
‘From Water’ 2021, 10minute loop digital video (4k and iPhone4), projectors and speakers. Sound designer Rob Szeliga
Coming Soon FROM WATER is an immersive video installation by artist Dani Tagen that invites the public to contemplate water from inside Stephen Turner’s Exbury Egg as part of his project ‘Natura Prima’ Thamesmead – Venice 2019-21 at Bow Art’s Lakeside Centre, Bazalgette Way, London, SE2 9AN. The opening times will be:-
27th June (Sunday), 3rd July (Saturday), 4th July (Sunday), 11th July (Sunday) from 11am to 4pm, or by appointment info@danitagen.com
Before the egg there is water. We all come from water and the video installation makes a link between Thamesmead, Tello/Girsu (Iraq), Treviso (Italy), and Santos (Brazil) – where Dani Tagen was born. These four places have a very close connection with the artist: they are all places she has lived, they all have an intrinsic connection with water and also represent milestones in her life.
FROM WATER emphasises the connections we, as human beings, have with one another and water.
The video installation, moving images and soundscapes portray water movements, tides and wave ripples from Thamesmead waters. FROM WATER is a place of wonder. Where one goes inside to lose track of time and reconnect with nature.
Over the last year of lockdown due to Covid19, the Exbury Egg has suffered significant weathering which needed to be urgently addressed in order to accommodate a series of new events in Thamesmead between now and the end of August. I spent the whole of last week sealing leaks in the upper half of the shell, particularly around the windows and doors, as well as treating the timber against some evident decay. I had a huge amount of assistance from Dani Tagen, one of the four artists I am working with in Thamesmead and who is due to have her own installation called ‘From Water’ in the Egg in June – July.
Dani Tagen on top of Stephen Turner’s Exbury EggClose Inspection shows the general wear and tearDecay to the outer western red cedar shell of the EggDani Tagen – Mission Accomplished
