Everything Comes from the Egg

everything comes from the egg was the touring exhibition of Stephen Turner's Exbury Egg and a wide range of new artworks developed and made by Stephen Turner while he was located and worked amongst communities in Exbury and subsequently in Burnley, London, Milton Keynes, Portsmouth and Hastings through 2016 and 2017. The Exbury Egg was originally located for over twelve months on the Beaulieu River in the care of The Exbury Estate through 2013 and 2014.

everything comes from the egg toured to venues in England through 2016 and 2017, including Finsley Gate Wharf, Burnley as part of Super Slow Way, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London - reaching out to communities around the River Lee, the Grand Union Canal in Milton Keynes, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth (where the Exbury Egg was located in Gunwharf Quays) and Jerwood Gallery, Hastings. The tour reflects and develops upon Turner's original performative relationship with the Egg as a stage for events that embrace the concept that "everything comes from the egg" (Ex Ovo Omnia, William Harvey 1651) and relocates the Exbury Egg and Stephen's practice within four different public visual arts contexts for further explorations and the development of new artworks. These new local contexts are explored by Stephen through residencies as he develops these new works, interacting with a  wide range of people and communities along urban canals, within a shopping centre and by the seaside.