Installation info: place straight onto the floorA bronze cast of a figure curled up in a sleeping bag, painted to look real in black with an orange lining.At first sight this appears to be the form of a homeless sleeper. Wrapped in a  sleeping bag cocoon, its title implies a wonderer living peripatetic life outside our  cultural value systems. But the soft folds of the sleeping bag turn out to be hard metal, a painted bronze cast of this embarrassing cultural phenomenon. With uncompromising stillness the sculpture will never move or wander except at the  behest of an art transport hoist. This image captured forever in the gallery, allows the viewer to wonder about lives led outside the ordinary; it gives them the power to stare.

Nomad (Black)

Painted bronze

Installation info: place straight onto the floorA bronze cast of a figure curled up in a sleeping bag, painted to look real in black with an orange lining.At first sight this appears to be the form of a homeless sleeper. Wrapped in a sleeping bag cocoon, its title implies a wonderer living peripatetic life outside our cultural value systems. But the soft folds of the sleeping bag turn out to be hard metal, a painted bronze cast of this embarrassing cultural phenomenon. With uncompromising stillness the sculpture will never move or wander except at the behest of an art transport hoist. This image captured forever in the gallery, allows the viewer to wonder about lives led outside the ordinary; it gives them the power to stare.

Homeless

Painted Bronze

Installation info: place straight onto the floor A bronze cast of a figure curled up in a sleeping bag, painted to look real in black with an orange lining. At first sight this appears to be the form of a homeless sleeper. Wrapped in a sleeping bag cocoon, its title implies a wonderer living peripatetic life outside our cultural value systems. But the soft folds of the sleeping bag turn out to be hard metal, a painted bronze cast of this embarrassing cultural phenomenon. With uncompromising stillness the sculpture will never move or wander except at the behest of an art transport hoist.

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup stained with tea and smudged finger prints &amp; painted to look real.

&lsquo;Spare Change for the Needy!&rsquo;

Polystyrene

Packaging

Cups

Sculpture

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup stained with tea and smudged finger prints & painted to look real.

'Spare Change for the Needy!'

A poster of Elvis Presley with bum style newspaper shoes painted over his feet by the Artist.

DIY Shoes (Elvis in Newspaper Shoes) (2)

Acrylic ink on printed paper

Acrylic on poster

A poster of Elvis Presley with bum style newspaper shoes painted over his feet by the Artist.

Elvis

Self-Portrait

Collages

Work on paper

DIY Shoes (Elvis in Newspaper Shoes)

A life size waxwork of the Artist as a tramp.

Another Bum

Waxwork & concrete

Outsider

Fool

Masks

Faces

A life size waxwork of the artist as a tramp.

In 1997, London’s Royal Academy of Arts hosted ‘Sensation’, an exhibition of work by young British artists from the collection of Charles Saatchi. This highly publicised exhibition opened with a celebrity filled party and Turk, who was exhibiting, arrived dressed as a homeless person wearing ‘worn-in’ clothes and a pair of specially fabricated ‘shoes’. Turk said ‘I thought everyone else would be dressed up and I didn’t have any party clothes, so I ended up making some’. This outfit became a part of the sculpture ‘Bum’ – a kind of degenerate version of ‘Pop’. Turk later made two similar waxworks, ‘Another Bum’ and ‘The Last Bum’.

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