Gavin turk in his studio apartments
Gavin turk in his studio apartments near Calgary, AB
Gavin turk in his studio apartments near Grande Prairie, AB...
Gavin Turk
British artist
Gavin Turk (born )[1] is a British artist from Guildford in Surrey,[1] and was considered to be one of the Young British Artists.
Turk's oeuvre deals with issues of authenticity and identity, engaged with modernist and avant-garde debates surrounding the 'myth' of the artist and the 'authorship' of a work of art.
Early work
Turk studied at Chelsea School of Art from to ,[1] and at the Royal College of Art from to [1]
In , tutors at the Royal College of Art refused to present Gavin Turk with his postgraduate degree,[1] a decision based on his graduation exhibition, which was titled Cave, and consisted of a whitewashed studio space, containing a blue heritage plaque of the kind normally found on historic buildings, commemorating his own presence as a sculptor, stating "Gavin Turk worked here, –".[2] This bestowed some instant notoriety on Turk, whose work was collected by numerous col