Farm Shop Organic Free Range Eggs

Oil and acrylic on canvas

Eggs

Appropriation

Art History

Food

Domestic

Forgery

Vessels

Disguise

Painting

Evil Eye

Poured acrylic paint on tondo canvas 

Eyes

Fright Wig Pink and Black on Yellow

Silkscreen ink and metallic paint on canvas

Masks

Silkscreen

A used white screen printing screen with a washed out pink image of the Artist as Joseph Beuys.

The Memory of Joseph Beuys

Faded screen ink, silkscreen & aluminium

Beuys

Faces

Icons

A used white screen printing screen with a washed out pink image of the Artist as Joseph Beuys.

A used yellow screen printing screen with a washed out green image of the Artist as Che Guevara.

Screen Che

Revolution

A used yellow screen printing screen with a washed out green image of the Artist as Che Guevara.

A Jackson Pollock style painting made from attempts of the Artists signature, repeated in various sizes and colours onto canvas.

Vulcan Worlds

Diamond dust and acrylic paint on canvas

Acrylic paint and diamond dust on canvas

Pollock

Signatures

A Jackson Pollock style painting made from attempts of the Artists signature, repeated in various sizes and colours onto canvas.

A used yellow screen printing screen with a washed out black image of the Artist as Andy Warhol.

Fright Screen

Warhol

A used yellow screen printing screen with a washed out black image of the Artist as Andy Warhol.

A print of the artists last name in the style of Robert Indiana&rsquo;s Love.

Turk Love

A print of the artists last name in the style of Robert Indiana’s Love.

Robert Indiana parody spelling TURK across canvas in matt black on glass black

Turk Love Black on Black

Robert Indiana parody spelling TURK across canvas in matt black on glass black

A ten panel print of the artist as Andy Warhol in black each on a different coloured background.

Fright Wig X

A ten panel print of the artist as Andy Warhol in black each on a different coloured background.

A painting based on Magrittes

Ceci ne’st pas une pipe.

Ceci n&rsquo;est pas un l

Magritte

A painting based on Magrittes Ceci ne’st pas une pipe.

Ceci n'est pas un l

Wrapped object from waste products used to make the show &lsquo;Negotiation of Purpose&rsquo;

Pile (wrapped object)

Debris, dust sheet and rope

Waste

Wrapped

Sculpture

Wrapped object from waste products used to make the show ‘Negotiation of Purpose’

A print of the Artist as Elvis Presley in white with diamond dust on a white background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

White Diamond Elvis

Silkscreen on canvas with diamond dust 

Elvis

A print of the Artist as Elvis Presley in white with diamond dust on a white background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

A used yellow screen printing screen with a washed out black image of the Artist as Elvis.This used screen, a by-product of the process of making images, is re-presented in the gallery as a finished artwork with the ghost of the artist as Elvis barely discernable. A residue of a previous artwork series, the process is brought to the forefront; the repetition fades away.

Faded Glory

A used yellow screen printing screen with a washed out black image of the Artist as Elvis.This used screen, a by-product of the process of making images, is re-presented in the gallery as a finished artwork with the ghost of the artist as Elvis barely discernable. A residue of a previous artwork series, the process is brought to the forefront; the repetition fades away.

A print of the Artist as Andy Warhol in black on a yellow background.

Fright Wig Pale Yellow

A print of the Artist as Andy Warhol in black on a yellow background.

A print of the artist as Andy Warhol in black on an orange background.

Fright Wig Orange

A print of the artist as Andy Warhol in black on an orange background.

A negative print of the Artist as Andy Warhol in black on a silver background.

Silver Negative Fright Wig

A negative print of the Artist as Andy Warhol in black on a silver background.

A print of the Artist as Che Guevara in the middle of a black, blue and earth orange Union Jack with the silver image of Guevara over painted with cracked glass.

God Save Che Guevara (Cracked)

Flags

A print of the Artist as Che Guevara in the middle of a black, blue and earth orange Union Jack with the silver image of Guevara over painted with cracked glass.

An electronic waxwork of the artist as a laughing, drunken sailor.

The odd sailor is an itinerant vagrant of the high seas trapped like a butterfly in a glass case. Hollow laughter repeating in circular patterns of jerky movement. The seaside freak as free spirit forever doomed to play out the instructions of the operator like a giant puppet. Jolly Jack tar, (union jack) colonialism.

“As it hit the water the fire hissed and the sinking pipe became no more than bubbles. Jim remembered old Sampan, his teeth blackened with betel, who had given him the pipe on the other side of the globe all those years ago; how he’d predicted the fate of that infernal device, saying it would betray him and meet a watery grave. Recalling the image of Sampan only moments later himself accidentally falling off the boat brought 
Jim to his feet and pointing into the water, the quizzical look on his face changed, his head rolled and from the base of his stomach came a thunderous laugh.” Gavin Turk

Gentleman Jim

Mechanical SculptureLife Sized Automata

Automaton

Fool

An electronic waxwork of the artist as a laughing, drunken sailor. The odd sailor is an itinerant vagrant of the high seas trapped like a butterfly in a glass case. Hollow laughter repeating in circular patterns of jerky movement. The seaside freak as free spirit forever doomed to play out the instructions of the operator like a giant puppet. Jolly Jack tar, (union jack) colonialism.

A print of the artist as Andy Warhol in black on a silver leaf background.

Me as Him (Silver)

Silkscreen and palladium leaf on paper

A print of the artist as Andy Warhol in black on a silver leaf background.

A print of the Artist as Joseph Beuys in brown with diamond dust on a black background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

In Memory of Joseph Beuys

Celebrity

A print of the Artist as Joseph Beuys in brown with diamond dust on a black background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

A page torn from an Andy Warhol catalogue originally showing Warhol’s ‘Brillo’ boxes, altered by the Artist to look like plain cardboard boxes.

Four unbranded boxes

Acrylic ink on printed paper

Packaging

Work on paper

A page torn from an Andy Warhol catalogue originally showing Warhol’s ‘Brillo’ boxes, altered by the Artist to look like plain cardboard boxes.

A frame taken from a 1970's Warhol artwork reused by the Artist to surround a white signature written backwards on the inside of a perspex cover casting a shadow signature on to a white canvas.

This is one of a series of works made bringing together recycling and the signature. They bring the two together in a seamless join. The obviousness of the idea hides its complexity. The piece starts with a second hand frame which has come from a small Andy Warhol print that has probably found itself upgraded to a newer frame. Into the frame is set a blank canvas. This ensemble is then set into a perspex box frame which has been signed by the artist on the inside with a chinagraph pencil. The signature then casts a shadow onto the blank canvas and the shadow of the signature becomes the subject of the picture. Except it is not quite so simple as that. The artist has, for instance, signed his signature backwards so that it can be captured on the inside of the outer frame but still read forwards.

Andy Warhol Self-portrait with Hands Around Neck

Recycled frame, acrylic on canvas & chinagraph pencil

Recycling

A frame taken from a 1970's Warhol artwork reused by the Artist to surround a white signature written backwards on the inside of a perspex cover casting a shadow signature on to a white canvas.

A painted bronze bust of the artist with a shotgun nose inspired by Magritte&rsquo;s Oscar.This rather curious looking character with bulging eggs for eyes and a shotgun nose is taken from a Magritte painting &lsquo;L&rsquo;ellipse&rsquo;. He has become a self portrait turned 2D to 3D and cast in bronze and then painted with all the lurid and clashing colours of the original. Magritte is one of the most striking and consistent of the so-called surrealists and his imagery permeated the Artist&rsquo;s work His child-like painting syle produces image after image of the familiar meeting the unfamiliar. Like dreams that take the realities of the day and collage them into impossible yet highly plausible scenarios, Magritte expresses his subconscious on canvas. Oscar is a character from a period of his life called by critics his &lsquo;Vache&rsquo; or &lsquo;Renoir&rsquo; period, when he appeared to be reacting against the controlled, meticulous and tranquil clocks and pipes and moustaches: the signifiers of ordered civilized European society. Suddenly he got expressive and violent &ndash; but with humour. The violent imagery of the shotgun impotently and Pinnochio-like in place of a nose (sneezing out the bullets), juxtaposed with the spooky eye peering from the bowler hat &ndash; symbol of power and professionalism and of course the grown-up gentleman&rsquo;s ill fitting check suit. This contrasts with the fay positioning of the back to front hands offering up &ndash; or is it pleading in supplication?

Oscar 

Painted bronze

A painted bronze bust of the artist with a shotgun nose inspired by Magritte’s Oscar.

A poster of the Artist as Che Guevara, repeated four times in they style of an Andy Warhol screenprint. Originally made as an advertising poster.The inspiration behind Turk&rsquo;s Che Gavara art works is the Alberta Korda photograph of the infamous Argentinean freedom fighter whose wild hair and beard, guerrilla beret and long distance stare came to personify the ultimate symbol of rebellion. Interested in the role of the outsider but also, how images and symbols are reduced to clich&eacute; through reproduction and repetition, Turk&rsquo;s Guevara is transformed into a Warholian screen print, where the formerly rebellious is re-appropriated as clich&eacute;. But this Che is also given the &ldquo;Gav&rdquo; treatment, with Turk&rsquo;s face replacing that of the Marxist hero as he continues his exploration of the uneasy relationship between artist/outsider and the market, advertising, celebrity and branding.

Che Gavara

Acrylic silkscreen on paper

A poster of the Artist as Che Guevara, repeated four times in they style of an Andy Warhol screenprint. Originally made as an advertising poster.

A waxwork of the artist as Jean Paul Marat on his death bed, based on the painting of the same name by Jacques-Louis David.

This is a sculpture recreation of Jacques-Louis David’s 1793 painting of the same name. David was a neo-classical painter who helped swing public opinion for the French revolution. Jean-Paul Marat was a revolutionary martyr who was stabbed to death while writing in the bath (he suffered from a skin disease that was soothed by bathing). In this version, however, Marat is replaced by a waxwork of Turk himself posed in a mirror image of the original paining. Wax figures were first popularised by Madame Tussaud, who began her career as an art instructor to the French royal family guillotined in the revolution. Tussaud won favour with the revolutionaries by modelling wax replicas of her former masters’ severed heads, and even made a waxwork of Marat the same year that David produced his painting.

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Death of Marat

Waxwork in glass vitrine

Death

Outsider

A waxwork of the artist as Jean Paul Marat on his death bed, based on the painting of the same name by Jacques-Louis David.

A page torn from an Andy Warhol catalogue originally showing Warhol&rsquo;s 'Do It Yourself (Flowers)', altered by the Artist by painting over the image in various colours, as if a paint by numbers painting.

Undone Painting

Watercolour on printed paper

A page torn from an Andy Warhol catalogue originally showing Warhol’s 'Do It Yourself (Flowers)', altered by the Artist by painting over the image in various colours, as if a paint by numbers painting.

A page torn from an Andy Warhol catalogue, originally showing &lsquo;Do It Yourself Narcissus&rsquo; and &lsquo;Do It Yourself Flowers&rsquo;, altered by the Artist by painting over the image in various colours, as if a paint by numbers painting.

2 DIY Undone Painting

A page torn from an Andy Warhol catalogue, originally showing ‘Do It Yourself Narcissus’ and ‘Do It Yourself Flowers’, altered by the Artist by painting over the image in various colours, as if a paint by numbers painting.

A double page torn out of an Andy Warhol catalogue originally showing eight silkscreens of Chairman Mao, altered by the Artist by painting over the images in various colours.

Mao to the Power of Eight

A double page torn out of an Andy Warhol catalogue originally showing eight silkscreens of Chairman Mao, altered by the Artist by painting over the images in various colours.

A page torn out of an Andy Warhol catalogue originally showing Warhol&rsquo;s 'The Electric Chair', altered by the Artist by painting over the image in various colours.

The Big Chair Electric

A page torn out of an Andy Warhol catalogue originally showing Warhol’s 'The Electric Chair', altered by the Artist by painting over the image in various colours.