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

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

Vulcan Worlds

Diamond dust and acrylic paint on canvas

Acrylic paint and diamond dust on canvas

Pollock

Signatures

Appropriation

Forgery

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 Andy Warhol.

Screen Fright

Faded screen ink, silkscreen & aluminium

Warhol

Silkscreen

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

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

Grey masses moving as the mud dries

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.

Robert Indiana parody spelling TURK across canvas in matt black on glass black

Turk Love Black on Black

Silkscreen ink and metallic paint on canvas

Robert Indiana parody spelling TURK across canvas in matt black on glass black

A Night at Birdland

The End

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

Elvis

Faces

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;?

Gold Triple Pop

Icons

Punk

Sid Vicious

A triple print of the piece Pop which shows

Something Different!!!!!

A print of the Artist as Che Guevara in black on a grey background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

Che Black on Grey

A print of the Artist as Che Guevara in black on a grey background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

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

Our ideas have got drunk and dropped their H&rsquo;s

Our ideas have got drunk and dropped their H's

Return to Forever

A print of the Artist as Joseph Beuys in red on a white paper background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

Beuys Red

Beuys

A print of the Artist as Joseph Beuys in red on a white paper background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

Homo Abyssus Occidentalis

The Nubians of Plutonia

A graphite rubbing of the artwork ‘Cave’.

Frottage

Graphite on paper

Death

A graphite rubbing of the artwork ‘Cave’.

Seven Selfish Supperless Ages

Ascension

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.

From dusk to death

Deaf, Dumb and Blind

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

Ghost Che

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

Black umbrellas blossom out

Fright Screen

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

Ghost 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.