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

Readymade

Sculpture

Found carton drink carrier resembling a face hung from either vertical orientation.

Art History

Recycling

Ready Made

Rotavator

Stocking

Newspaper & packing tape

Shoes

Discarded half-open chip tray, cast in bronze and painted to look real.Finding beauty in the trashy and ugly, Turk gives the polystyrene used chip tray &ndash; alongside with its cousin the burger tray &ndash; a grandiose makeover, transforming rubbish into art in the form of a painted bronze sculpture. The remains of a traditional English dish and cheap street food for the masses, Turk&rsquo;s chip trays become elegiac and nostalgic relics not just of a hearty meal but a set of cultural values which appear to be rapidly vanishing.

Chips to Go

Painted bronze

Polystyrene

Discarded half-open chip tray, cast in bronze and painted to look real.Finding beauty in the trashy and ugly, Turk gives the polystyrene used chip tray – alongside with its cousin the burger tray – a grandiose makeover, transforming rubbish into art in the form of a painted bronze sculpture. The remains of a traditional English dish and cheap street food for the masses, Turk’s chip trays become elegiac and nostalgic relics not just of a hearty meal but a set of cultural values which appear to be rapidly vanishing.

A watercolour of a mushroom cloud based on &lsquo;The Age of Anxiety&rsquo; by W.H Auden.

From dusk to death

Fourteen framed watercolours on paper

Clouds

Work on paper

A watercolour of a mushroom cloud based on ‘The Age of Anxiety’ by W.H Auden.

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

Deaf, Dumb and Blind

Diamond dust and acrylic paint on canvas

Acrylic paint and diamond dust on canvas

Pollock

Signatures

Painting

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 Che Guevara.

Ghost Che

Faded screen ink, silkscreen & aluminium

Silkscreen

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

Black umbrellas blossom out

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

Fright Screen

Warhol

Appropriation

Icons

Faces

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

A used screen printing screen with a washed out black image of the artist as Elvis.

Ghost Elvis

Elvis

A used screen printing screen with a washed out black image of the artist as Elvis.

The jawing genius of a jackass age

A line drawing in the style of Warhol made from a photograph of Warhol attending an opening at the ICA.

I.C.Andy

Coloured pencil on paperPrint of font

Dandy

A line drawing in the style of Warhol made from a photograph of Warhol attending an opening at the ICA.

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

The Memory of Joseph Beuys

Beuys

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

A print of the Artist&rsquo;s last name in the style of Robert Indiana&rsquo;s &lsquo;Love&rsquo; in green, red and olive green.

Love Turk (Red, Green and Brown)

Silkscreen ink and metallic paint on canvas

A print of the Artist’s last name in the style of Robert Indiana’s ‘Love’ in green, red and olive green.

Ex-monarchs remember a past Of wars and waltzes as they wait for death

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

Turk Love

Forgery

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

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 bronze cast of the middle of a toilet roll painted to look real.Turk&rsquo;s trompe l&rsquo;oeil sculptures of toilet rolls mischievously imply a symbiotic association between art and shit. Indeed, works such as In Memory of Piero Manzoni see Turk make a playful reference to Manzoni&rsquo;s Merda D&rsquo;Artista in which he presented cans of shit as art. Concerned with challenging meaning through re-cycling, re-appropriation and re-contextualisation, Turk&rsquo;s bog rolls might also be seen to taken on a new life as a child&rsquo;s telescope &ndash; itself an object used to change the viewer&rsquo;s perspective. They also bear an uncanny similarity to rollers used by painters and decorators to apply paint and wallpaper, transforming the artist into a humble tradesman in the process. Or perhaps not, since these bog rolls are made not from cardboard but bronze, elevating the status of the banal to something far more grand.

Loo Roll

A bronze cast of the middle of a toilet roll painted to look real.

The artists signature written in the style of a Jackson Pollock painting.

Jazzz Signature

Enamel paint on paper

The End

The artists signature written in the style of a Jackson Pollock painting.

A used white screen printing screen with a washed out black image of the Artist as Andy Warhol over a washed out black image of the Artist as Che Guevara.

Fright Che

A used white screen printing screen with a washed out black image of the Artist as Andy Warhol over a washed out black image of the Artist as Che Guevara.

The gods are wringing their great worn hands

Gavin Turk as Che in black on yellow

Che on Yellow Background

Vulcan Worlds

Screen Fright

Grey masses moving as the mud dries

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 Night at Birdland

A print of the Artist as Elvis Presley in green on an ochre background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

Elvis Green and Ochre

Acrylic silkscreen on paper

A print of the Artist as Elvis Presley in green on an ochre background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

What err what we are as if we were not

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;?