Elvis Union Black on Silver

Silkscreen ink and diamond dust on paper

Icons

Self-Portrait

Flags

Elvis

Masks

Faces

Silkscreen

A small canvas painting of blue and white Breton style stripes reminiscent of the sailor's shirt.

Flag

Diamond dust and acrylic paint on canvas

Acrylic paint and diamond dust on canvas

Gentleman Jim

Painting

A small canvas painting of blue and white Breton style stripes reminiscent of the sailor's shirt.

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)

Silkscreen ink and metallic paint on canvas

Revolution

Appropriation

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.

Cement cast of a small split tin loaf painted with Jamaican flag.

Metaphysical Rasta Loaf

Painted concrete

Food

Bread

Sculpture

Cement cast of a small split tin loaf painted with Jamaican flag.

An installation consisting of a postcard rack filled with postcards of the image used for the piece 'window'.

Window rack

Postcards & Metal Display Rack

Celebrity

Installation

An installation consisting of a postcard rack filled with postcards of the image used for the piece 'window'.

A page torn from an Yves Klein catalogue, originally showing Klein&rsquo;s 'Untitled Monochrome', altered by the Artist by painting over the image to resemble a convex and a concave view of the Union Jack flag.

Convex and Concave 

Oil on printed paper

Klein

Work on paper

A page torn from an Yves Klein catalogue, originally showing Klein’s 'Untitled Monochrome', altered by the Artist by painting over the image to resemble a convex and a concave view of the Union Jack flag.

A page torn from an Yves Klein catalogue originally showing Klein&rsquo;s &lsquo;Untitled Blue Monochrome&rsquo;, altered by the Artist by turning the image on its side and painting it to resemble a blue Union Jack flag.

Untitled Blue Flag

Oil paint on printed paper

A page torn from an Yves Klein catalogue originally showing Klein’s ‘Untitled Blue Monochrome’, altered by the Artist by turning the image on its side and painting it to resemble a blue Union Jack flag.

A page torn from an Yves Klein Catalogue originally showing Klein&rsquo;s '24. Untitled Blue Monochrome', altered by the Artist by painting it to resemble a blue, yellow and grey Union Jack flag.

Untitled Blue Monochrome

A page torn from an Yves Klein Catalogue originally showing Klein’s '24. Untitled Blue Monochrome', altered by the Artist by painting it to resemble a blue, yellow and grey Union Jack flag.

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

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 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

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.

An invitation card from the artists degree show, showing the Union Jack taken from the cover of the ‘Sun’ newspaper, with the Artists face printed over the top wearing a beret.

This postcard accompanied Turk’s degree exhibition (where he exhibited ‘Cave’). The image is based on the front page of the British tabloid The Sun, which, on the eve of the first Gulf War in 1991, superimposed the head of a British soldier onto the Union Jack. Its headline ran: ‘Support our boys and put this flag in your window’. Turk replaced the squaddie’s head with his own, so that the beret referred to artists rather than soldiers. At the time the British media were notoriously hostile to ‘modern’ art, and Turk couldn’t resist suggesting that the press might promote artists as positive national symbols as much as they support the military.

Window

Printed image on card

An invitation card from the artists degree show, showing the Union Jack taken from the cover of the ‘Sun’ newspaper, with the Artists face printed over the top wearing a beret. This postcard accompanied Turk’s degree exhibition (where he exhibited ‘Cave’). The image is based on the front page of the British tabloid The Sun, which, on the eve of the first Gulf War in 1991, superimposed the head of a British soldier onto the Union Jack. Its headline ran: ‘Support our boys and put this flag in your window’. Turk replaced the squaddie’s head with his own, so that the beret referred to artists rather than soldiers. At the time the British media were notoriously hostile to ‘modern’ art, and Turk couldn’t resist suggesting that the press might promote artists as positive national symbols as much as they support the military.

Blighty 

An invitation card from the artists degree show, showing the Union Jack taken from the cover of the ‘Sun’ newspaper, with the Artists face printed over the top wearing a beret.

A glass top vitrine containing a beret and the front page of the ‘Sun’ newspaper portraying the artist as a soldier wearing the beret printed over the Union Jack flag.

Study for Window

Beret, newspaper & colour photocopy in glass top vitrine

Beret, newspaper & colour photocopy in vitrine

A glass top vitrine containing a beret and the front page of the ‘Sun’ newspaper portraying the artist as a soldier wearing the beret printed over the Union Jack flag.