An electronic waxwork of the artist as a laughing, drunken sailor.

The odd sailor is an itinerant vagrant of the high seas trapped like a butterfly in a glass case. Hollow laughter repeating in circular patterns of jerky movement. The seaside freak as free spirit forever doomed to play out the instructions of the operator like a giant puppet. Jolly Jack tar, (union jack) colonialism.

“As it hit the water the fire hissed and the sinking pipe became no more than bubbles. Jim remembered old Sampan, his teeth blackened with betel, who had given him the pipe on the other side of the globe all those years ago; how he’d predicted the fate of that infernal device, saying it would betray him and meet a watery grave. Recalling the image of Sampan only moments later himself accidentally falling off the boat brought 
Jim to his feet and pointing into the water, the quizzical look on his face changed, his head rolled and from the base of his stomach came a thunderous laugh.” Gavin Turk

Gentleman Jim

Mechanical SculptureLife Sized Automata

Automaton

Appropriation

Fool

Sculpture

An electronic waxwork of the artist as a laughing, drunken sailor. The odd sailor is an itinerant vagrant of the high seas trapped like a butterfly in a glass case. Hollow laughter repeating in circular patterns of jerky movement. The seaside freak as free spirit forever doomed to play out the instructions of the operator like a giant puppet. Jolly Jack tar, (union jack) colonialism.

A small canvas painting of blue and white Breton style stripes reminiscent of the sailor's shirt.

Flag

Diamond dust and acrylic paint on canvas

Acrylic paint and diamond dust on canvas

Flags

Painting

A small canvas painting of blue and white Breton style stripes reminiscent of the sailor's shirt.

Painted blue and white stripes on paper drawing reminiscent of Breton striped sailor shirt.

Sailor Stripe

Acrylic ink on printed paper

Uniform

Work on paper

Painted blue and white stripes on paper drawing reminiscent of Breton striped sailor shirt.

Embroidery

Etching

Film

Found Object

Glass

Installation

Mixed Media

Object Trouvé

Painted Bronze

Photographic Work

Public Sculpture

Ready Made

Silkscreen

Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels

Ben Brown Fine Arts, London

David Nolan Gallery, New York

Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna

Maruani Mercier, Brussels & Knokke

Paul Stolper, London

Reflex, Amsterdam

Gavin Turk

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