Holy Egg (Dichroic Medium)

Acrylic paint and diamond dust on canvas

Eggs

Icons

Signatures

Artist

Painting

Untitled Fright Wig Piss Painting

Silkscreen ink and metallic paint on canvas

Warhol

Piss

Waste

Masks

Self-Portrait

Faces

Silkscreen

24th January 2014

Blue neon

Sculpture

Pop image in life size silkscreen in black on white

White Pop

Diamond dust and acrylic paint on canvas

A triple print of the piece Pop which showsthe artist as Sid Vicious in the pose of Andy Warhol's Elvis Presley, which imagined the be-quiffed star as a gunslinging cowboy - the original king of Pop as celebrated by the original &quot;king&quot; of Pop Art. A homage to both, Pop finds Turk adopting the same rebel snarl with the curled upper lip, not as the King of Pop but the dark Prince of punk. While Elvis was a sanitised icon of the music industry given a rebellious makeover by Warhol, Sid was a natural outsider who found himself somewhat accidentally at the heart of pop culture. Both came to untimely and sticky ends, sucked up and spat out by the same system, with a heavy dose of self-destruction thrown in for good measure. Certainly, there was nothing glossy or shiny or bright about the respective ends of these two nemeses. But if Pop is a comment on the nature of celebrity and the inbuilt self-destruction of the star system, which likes its martyrs young and damaged - with not a small nod at the martyrdom expected of artists should they ever hope to see their name up in lights, also - it is also a wry take on the commodification of culture, in which rebels and heroes, artists, art works and icons are reduced to products whose value is determined by the arbitrary randomness of the market. Removed from the mean streets of punk's DIY roots, this Sid Vicious is a reproducible multiple to be gazed upon at a safe distance. No longer a threat, this Sid Vicious may be pointing his gun, but the only things his piece is firing, are blanks. And what of The Artist? Once regarded as a outsider, has the market rendered Him an impotent and antiquated museum curiosity too? Has the gunslinger been relegated to the realm of cliche, no longer a threat but taken hostage by the very system he hoped to challenge? Is he now responsible for writing his own ransom note? Or is there still a possibility that he may yet lay claim to the mantra made famous twice, first by Frank Sinatra and then by Sid that, right to the end, glass vitrine and all, end, he did it &quot;My Way&quot;?

Gold Triple Pop

Acrylic silkscreen on paper

Punk

Sid Vicious

Elvis

A triple print of the piece Pop which shows

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

Appropriation

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

Fright Screen

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

A graphite rubbing of the artwork ‘Cave’.

Frottage

Graphite on paper

Death

The End

Art History

Work on paper

A graphite rubbing of the artwork ‘Cave’.

Triple Pop

Blue Elvis

Silkscreen and mirrored ink on glass

Mirrors

Green Warhol

Red Che

Alchemy

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.

Union Elvis Red on Pink

Camouflage

Elvis Union Black on Blue

Elvis Union Black on Silver

Silkscreen ink and diamond dust on paper

Flags

Elvis Union Brown on Orange

Somebody’s Son (2007) is a waxwork of the artist as a Queen’s guard in his sentry box. Resembling an oversized toy from a souvenir shop, the caricature with his absurd and darkly comic uniform and deadly machine gun stands encumbered by his huge bearskin protuberance – the artist’s face peering out from behind the chinstrap. The title embues a sense of loss, whilst these highly trained soldiers, used as cultural decoration, escape the active duty of war.

Somebody’s Son

Waxwork in wooden sentry box

Somebody’s Son (2007) is a waxwork of the artist as a Queen’s guard in his sentry box. Resembling an oversized toy from a souvenir shop, the caricature with his absurd and darkly comic uniform and deadly machine gun stands encumbered by his huge bearskin protuberance – the artist’s face peering out from behind the chinstrap. The title embues a sense of loss, whilst these highly trained soldiers, used as cultural decoration, escape the active duty of war.

Identity

Flaneur

Public Sculpture

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 double print of the Artist as Elvis Presley, one side in grey on a white background, and the other in white on a black background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

Elvis Diptych

A double print of the Artist as Elvis Presley, one side in grey on a white background, and the other in white on a black background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

A print of the Artist as Joseph Beuys in purple on an orange background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

Purple On Orange Beuys (Working Title)

A print of the Artist as Joseph Beuys in purple on an orange background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

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 

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 double print of the Artist as Elvis Presley in black on a black background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

Black Double

A double print of the Artist as Elvis Presley in black on a black background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

A four panel print of the Artist as Elvis Presley in black on a cream and blue camouflage background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

Camouflage Elvis Cream

A four panel print of the Artist as Elvis Presley in black on a cream and blue camouflage background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

A print of the artist as Andy Warhol in black on a pale blue background.

Fright Wig Pale Blue

A print of the artist as Andy Warhol in black on a pale blue background.

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

Fright Wig Blue

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

Beuys in Diamond Dust

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

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

Silver Negative Beuys

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