A photographic mock-up of the cover of ‘Hello!’ magazine showing the Artist and his family, presented in a glass top vitrine.

Hello

Colour copy, acrylic, steel and cloth

Celebrity

Consume

Artist

Photographic Work

An egg painted in the markings of a football placed on the floor in the centre of a group show. Predictably destroyed on the opening night.  Part of Karaoke Football show

Footei

Painted egg in vitrine

Eggs

Football

Object Trouvé

An egg painted in the markings of a football placed on the floor in the centre of a group show. Predictably destroyed on the opening night. Part of Karaoke Football show

A portrait of the Artist from the neck up with camouflage paint.

Camouflage Self Portrait  (a Man Like Mr Kurtz)

Cibatrans mounted in light box

A portrait of the Artist from the neck up with camouflage paint.

Self-Portrait

Camouflage

Outsider

Masks

Faces

Pencil drawing of a moustache, signed and dated by the Artist in bottom right corner.

100% Human Hair

Coloured pencil on paperPrint of font

Coloured pencil on paperPrint of font

Pencil drawing of a moustache, signed and dated by the Artist in bottom right corner.

Art History

Hair

Work on paper

An old white table with a metal frame with a glass Perrier bottle spinning on its surface.

En Plein Air

studio table, glass bottle and motor

En Plein Air (1994) consists of a well-used white table with a glass Perrier bottle slowly spinning on its surface. This mechanical artwork is one of a series musing on decision-making. Air in an empty bottle, that once contained mineral water, revolving deliberately on a table – like a ouija board. But the bottle never stops spinning, or reaching its decision, caught in suspended animation.

Automaton

Fate

Vessels

Chance

Sculpture

An old white table with a metal frame with a glass Perrier bottle spinning on its surface.

A page torn from an Yves Klein catalogue, originally showing Klein&rsquo;s &lsquo;Requiem&rsquo;, altered by the Artist by turning the image on its side painted over it in red and white to represent the Union Jack flag.

Requiem

Oil on printed paper

Flags

Forgery

A page torn from an Yves Klein catalogue, originally showing Klein’s ‘Requiem’, altered by the Artist by turning the image on its side painted over it in red and white to represent the Union Jack flag.

Toast

Bread & wooden frame

Food

Readymade

Bread

Ready Made

A page torn from an Yves Klein catalogue, originally showing Klein's &lsquo;Untitled Monochrome 1961&rsquo; and &lsquo;Untitled Monochrome 1962&rsquo;, altered by the Artist by painting it to resemble two Union Jack flags.

Untitled Triplechrome

Klein

A page torn from an Yves Klein catalogue, originally showing Klein's ‘Untitled Monochrome 1961’ and ‘Untitled Monochrome 1962’, altered by the Artist by painting it to resemble two Union Jack flags.

A list of other artist’s names on paper as if the Artist had been practising forgeries. Signed by the Artist in bottom right corner.

This tiny drawing made on an index card, captures a moment in time very prescient to the next few years. It is an extremely minimalist list. A piece of poetry that becomes a drawing for some vast conceptual sculpture. An imaginary collage of Oeuvres. A mantra spoken in meditation. All named are male Caucasian artists, all reoccurring in the Artists work, all heroes, mentors, ghosts of the past, to cramp his style, give him history to shake off. To inspire him, to infuriate him, to enlighten him.

Beuys, Broodthears, de Chirico, Duchamp, Johns, Klein, Manzoni, Warhol

Beuys

Signatures

A list of other artist’s names on paper as if the Artist had been practising forgeries. Signed by the Artist in bottom right corner.

A pencil drawing of a moustache &lsquo;flying&rsquo; over a landscape.

Facial Hair

Moustaches & Beards

A pencil drawing of a moustache ‘flying’ over a landscape.

Drawing of an anti smoking sign with a pipe replacing the cigarette.

In Defense of Smoking

Acrylic ink on printed paper

Signs

Smoke

Pipes

Drawing of an anti smoking sign with a pipe replacing the cigarette.

Identity Crisis

Screen printed poster in box

Photographic mock-up of the cover of Hello! magazine showing the artist and his family. Presented on a light box in the style of an advertisement.In this amusingly prescient artwork, Turk mocked-up a fake cover of HELLO! Magazine and displayed it on an advertising light box. The work foresaw how the complexities of an artist’s practice can be lost when they are used to feed a mainstream appetite for gossip, lifestyle and celebrity. Turk produced this piece before the mass media embraced the ‘Brit Art’ phenomenon and began to focus on the personalities of the most successful artists.In Identity Crisis (1994) a mock-up of Hello! magazine is presented on a lightbox. This amusingly prophetic artwork, parodying an advertising campaign, foresaw how the complexities of an artist’s practice can be lost when they are used to feed a mainstream appetite for biographical gossip and lifestyle. This work was displayed at the Saatchi Gallery as part of the prescient Young British Artists series.