Photograph of all the works in the South London Gallery exhibition 'The Stuff Show' covered up in the style of Christo for the opening night. Guests at the opening of Turk’s solo exhibition at the South London Gallery in 1998 found that the artist had covered all of the works with linen dustsheets for the evening. Turk had effectively made a one-night exhibition inviting the audience to take a look at their own expectations, and responses ranged from wry enjoyment to outright indignation. ‘Droste Effect’ is a panoramic image of the covered exhibition, and was itself included among the covered works – an apparent impossibility; how could the photograph be on the white wall while it has been taken? The work’s title comes from a Dutch cocoa powder, Droste, which features on its tin a picture of a nun carrying a tray with a tin of Droste, which in turn has the same picture of the nun….and on into infinity.

Droste Effect

C-type colour print collage

Photograph of all the works in the South London Gallery exhibition 'The Stuff Show' covered up in the style of Christo for the opening night. Guests at the opening of Turk’s solo exhibition at the South London Gallery in 1998 found that the artist had covered all of the works with linen dustsheets for the evening. Turk had effectively made a one-night exhibition inviting the audience to take a look at their own expectations, and responses ranged from wry enjoyment to outright indignation. ‘Droste Effect’ is a panoramic image of the covered exhibition, and was itself included among the covered works – an apparent impossibility; how could the photograph be on the white wall while it has been taken? The work’s title comes from a Dutch cocoa powder, Droste, which features on its tin a picture of a nun carrying a tray with a tin of Droste, which in turn has the same picture of the nun….and on into infinity.

Recycling

Infinity

Photographic Work

Photograph of all the works in the South London Gallery exhibition 'The Stuff Show' covered up in the style of Christo for the opening night. Guests at the opening of Turk’s solo exhibition at the South London Gallery in 1998 found that the artist had covered all of the works with linen dustsheets for the evening. Turk had effectively made a one-night exhibition inviting the audience to take a look at their own expectations, and responses ranged from wry enjoyment to outright indignation.

An oil painting of a black sky through a window frame.

Fresh Window

Oil and acrylic on canvas

An oil painting of a black sky through a window frame.

Art History

Doors

Painting

A collaborative art piece worked on by the Artist and his son Curtis sold to Gary Hume at the charity auction for Save the Children.

3 pages torn from a book & paint

Signatures

Work on paper

Animal Cartoons (Hound, Polarbear, Ostrich)

A life size waxwork of the Artist as a tramp.

Waxwork & concrete

Self-Portrait

Outsider

Homeless

Masks

Faces

Sculpture

A giant piece of chewed gum mounted on a wall as if discarded. Turk has made many artworks using chewing gum, and this piece is from a series of large, manufactured blobs attached to the gallery wall. Another work from the same series is titled &lsquo;Stucco&rsquo;, playing on the fact that, while gum literally gets stuck to street furniture, &lsquo;Stucco&rsquo; itself is a kind of fine plaster used for the ornate mouldings that you find in old buildings.

Painted fibreglass

Food

A giant piece of chewed gum mounted on a wall as if discarded. Turk has made many artworks using chewing gum, and this piece is from a series of large, manufactured blobs attached to the gallery wall. Another work from the same series is titled ‘Stucco’, playing on the fact that, while gum literally gets stuck to street furniture, ‘Stucco’ itself is a kind of fine plaster used for the ornate mouldings that you find in old buildings.

A giant piece of chewed gum mounted on a wall as if discarded.

Turk has made many artworks using chewing gum, and this piece is from a series of large, manufactured blobs attached to the gallery wall. Another work from the same series is titled ‘Stucco’, playing on the fact that, while gum literally gets stuck to street furniture, ‘Stucco’ itself is a kind of fine plaster used for the ornate mouldings that you find in old buildings.

A large egg displayed in an open wooden crate.

Uovo

Wood, resin & foam

Eggs

A large egg displayed in an open wooden crate.

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

Flags

Installation

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

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

Appropriation

Death

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.