Gavin Turk
Gavin Turk (b 1967) is a British born, international artist. He has pioneered many forms of contemporary British sculpture, including the painted bronze, the waxwork, the recycled art-historical icon and the use of rubbish in art.
Gavin Turk’s installations and sculptures deal with issues of authorship, authenticity and identity. Concerned with the ‘myth’ of the artist and the ‘authorship’ of a work, his engagement with this modernist, avant-garde debate stretches back to the ready-mades of Marcel Duchamp.
In 1991, the Royal College of Art refused Gavin Turk a degree on the basis that his final show, ‘Cave’, consisted of a whitewashed studio space containing only a blue heritage plaque commemorating his presence ‘Gavin Turk worked here 1989-91′. Instantly gaining notoriety through this installation, Turk was spotted by Charles Saatchi and was included in several YBA exhibitions. His work has since been collected and exhibited by many major museums and galleries throughout the world.
In 2013 Prestel published Turk’s first major monograph, showcasing more than two decades … of his work and in 2014 Trolley Books published ‘This Is Not A Book About Gavin Turk’ which playfully explores themes associated with the artist’s work via thirty notable contributors. Gavin Turk has created numerous public sculptures including L’Âge d’Or (2016), sited on the south corner of the Press Centre building in the Olympic Park, Nail, a 12-meter sculpture at One New Change, next to St Paul’s cathedral, London, England and Axis Mundi, 2017, Brunel Building.
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