FOMO

Readymade

Trash

White Bicycle

Roses, paper, canvas in glass vitrine

Art History

Installation

Responding to Marcel Duchamp's 'En prévision du bras crassé' ('In Anticipation of the Broken Arm') this snow shovel suggests that Duchamp created his work in anticipation on Turk's 'Broken Arm'.

Broken Arm

Wood and plastic

Responding to  Marcel Duchamp's 'En prévision du bras crassé' ('In Anticipation of the Broken Arm') this snow shovel suggests that Duchamp created his work in anticipation on Turk's 'Broken Arm'.

Duchamp

Sculpture

Responding to Marcel Duchamp's 'En prévision du bras crassé' ('In Anticipation of the Broken Arm') this snow shovel suggests that Duchamp created his work in anticipation on Turk's 'Broken Arm'.

a work inspired by Piero Manzoni's 'Artists shit'

Ordure

rusted tin can

Rubbish

Cans

Ready Made

A white balloon full of air and attached to a block of wood using wax and string.

À Bout de Souffle

Balloon, string, wax, wood and brass plaque

A large charity box, originally of a Panda sitting on a rock, altered by the Artist leaving just the rock. Created in aid of the World Wildlife Foundation exhibition and auction &lsquo;Pandamonium&rsquo;.

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Painted resin

Animalia

A large charity box, originally of a Panda sitting on a rock, altered by the Artist leaving just the rock. Created in aid of the World Wildlife Foundation exhibition and auction ‘Pandamonium’.

A perspex chair with an egg shape cut out of the seat and a bucket placed underneathand the back signed and dated by the artist. Created in aid of the Charity chair auction &lsquo;Take your seats&rsquo;.

Egg Seat

Plastic chair & bucket

Eggs

A perspex chair with an egg shape cut out of the seat and a bucket placed underneathand the back signed and dated by the artist. Created in aid of the Charity chair auction ‘Take your seats’.

A balloon presented on a small wooden plinth with a plaque reading ‘Gavin Turk Breathing Exercise’.

Breathing Exercise

Balloon, wax, wood, brass & string

Manzoni

Installation info: To be shown on a free standing plinth, without ridge on top, unlike in photo. Previously museum wax has been used to balance sculpture upright.  If this is to be repeated take care to avoid applying this near the signature underneath as the wax will smudge it.An object that resembles a smoking pipe found and displayed by the artist in reference to Magritte & Duchamp. This readymade was found by the artist; a u-bend from a drain, a transition point between private and public waste disposal. The seal to prevent contamination of smells and germs between the individual and civic pace, the shape is also reminiscent of a toilet bowl or the philosopher’s tobacco pipe. The male accessory of traditional patriarchal values displayed as a decrepit old tube.

Drainpipe

Ceramic and cast iron

Installation info: To be shown on a free standing plinth, without ridge on top, unlike in photo. Previously museum wax has been used to balance sculpture upright. If this is to be repeated take care to avoid applying this near the signature underneath as the wax will smudge it.An object that resembles a smoking pipe found and displayed by the artist in reference to Magritte & Duchamp. This readymade was found by the artist; a u-bend from a drain, a transition point between private and public waste disposal. The seal to prevent contamination of smells and germs between the individual and civic pace, the shape is also reminiscent of a toilet bowl or the philosopher’s tobacco pipe. The male accessory of traditional patriarchal values displayed as a decrepit old tube.

Magritte

Waste

Pipes

Found Object

Installation info: To be shown on a free standing plinth, without ridge on top, unlike in photo. Previously museum wax has been used to balance sculpture upright. If this is to be repeated take care to avoid applying this near the signature underneath as the wax will smudge it. An object that resembles a smoking pipe found and displayed by the artist in reference to Magritte & Duchamp. This readymade was found by the artist; a u-bend from a drain, a transition point between private and public waste disposal.

A black Honda car boot with a &lsquo;GT&rsquo; sticker, signed and dated by the artist for the Art Car Boot Fair 2007. This artwork was first created as an elaborate ruse. In the summer of 2007 Turk was invited to take part in The Art Car Boot Fair in Brick Lane, East London - An annual jamboree where artists take over the marketplace selling their bizarre wares. In this twist on the English car boot fair phenomena (where people sell their unwanted goods from the back of cars), Turk decided to take the brief at face value and literally sell a motley collection of second-hand car boots selected and adorned with the artists signature flamboyantly embellished in permanent marker. A battered relic of the motor car, itself a symbol of income and social status hangs as an artifact separated from its function. A useless flap hanging on the wall like instant archaeology as an epoch struggles to come to terms with its out of control consumer appetite. The back end of a once noble steed becomes a Moose Head on the wall.

Car Boot (Black Honda)

Car boot & marker pen

Vehicles

A black Honda car boot with a ‘GT’ sticker, signed and dated by the artist for the Art Car Boot Fair 2007.

Having previously made work with tea stains on watercolour paper, Turk produced a limited edition run of signed Rich Tea biscuits for the 2006 Art Car Boot Fair, the original biscuit having been both signed and bitten by the artist. He views tea (and biscuits) as essential to the clich&eacute;d cultural history of Britain as a tea-drinking nation, as much a part of the landscape as Constable, Henry Moore and William Morris a kind of &lsquo;Rusk&rsquo;inian romanticism. Importantly, the biscuits have a bite out of them. &ldquo;The bite disrupted the circularity of the biscuit, it was almost like the loss of innocence, the bite of the Apple&rdquo;

Rich Tea Biscuit

Bitten and signed rich tea biscuit

Food

Having previously made work with tea stains on watercolour paper, Turk produced a limited edition run of signed Rich Tea biscuits for the 2006 Art Car Boot Fair, the original biscuit having been both signed and bitten by the artist. He views tea (and biscuits) as essential to the clichéd cultural history of Britain as a tea-drinking nation, as much a part of the landscape as Constable, Henry Moore and William Morris a kind of ‘Rusk’inian romanticism. Importantly, the biscuits have a bite out of them.

A surveillance mirror signed ‘Gavin Turk’, named after the Richard Hamilton piece ‘slip it to me’.

The Second Coming

Engraved surveillance mirror

Signatures

A surveillance mirror signed ‘Gavin Turk’, named after the Richard Hamilton piece ‘slip it to me’.

A nail hammered into the middle of a piece of white A4 paper.

Metaphysical Nail

3 inch nail & paper

Nail

Work on paper

A nail hammered into the middle of a piece of white A4 paper.

Duck Duck Duck

Collage with newsprint

The Queen's head from a 2p stamp collaged onto a 1p stamp.

1p Stamp, 2p Queen

Stamp on paper

The Queen's head from a 2p stamp collaged onto a 1p stamp.

A black glass bottle with the word syrup written in chalk.

Syrup

Chalk on glass

Packaging

Bottles

A black glass bottle with the word syrup written in chalk.

A paint brush and two rollers dipped in emulsion and left in a paint tray, presented in a museum grade vitrine made of mahogany and glass.Having recognized white emulsion paint as the background canvas &ndash; the theatre backdrop of contemporary art &ndash; the Artist then put his mind to the tool that is used to apply the paint. This first piece was a wooden museum vitrine made in 1995 called &lsquo;Paint, Two Rollers and a Brush&rsquo;. This was a homage to the cultural significance or archeological importance of the gallery decorator and his tools. Displayed in the cabinet were several used objects straight out of the recently repainted gallery exactly as their title suggests. They are fresh and curious in their isolation. Looking at them through the imaginary eyes of an alien they appear angular and precise. Specialised tools for a specialized job. The most angular and specialized of all is the paint roller. A bent and twisted mark-making tool that covers a wall in white faster than you can blink. Cast in bronze &ndash; the traditional material of &lsquo;Great Sculpture&rsquo; &ndash; the tool then becomes heavy and significant, instead of light and useful, allowing the viewer to study the detail of the everyday object: the tufts of the sheepskin roller, the ingeniously designed bent handle.

Paint, Two Rollers and Brush

Roller, brush, paint tray & paint in vitrine

Artist

Domestic

A paint brush and two rollers dipped in emulsion and left in a paint tray, presented in a museum grade vitrine made of mahogany and glass.