Gavin Turk

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gavin Turk
Date Of Birth	Jun 7, 1967(1967-06-07)
Age	57
Birthplace	Guildford
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Gemini

Gavin Turk Biography

Gavin Turk is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on June 7, 1967 in Guildford, England, United Kingdom. Gavin Turk (born 1967) is a British artist and is widely regarded as an artist among Young British Artists. Turk’s work deals with questions regarding authenticity, identity and authenticity, and is involved in debates between avant-garde and modernist art concerning the myth of the artist, as well as the authorship of a piece of art.

The Trompe-l’oeil series of three-dimensional pieces includes objects cast in bronze, then painted to mimic the look as the actual object. One of his most well-known work, they comprise bronze sculptures made of plastic bags. See “Bag” (2000). Others include “Nomad” (2002), which is a bronze casting from a sleep bag along with Box (2002) which is a resemblance to the shape of a cardboard box. Turk might be considered to be the best painter of the bronze painted, with casts of everything made from used matches, worn pavement slabs to used exhaust pipes.

From 2005 Turk began producing a small number of silkscreen works on canvas, depicting himself as Elvis Presley, in a pose taken from the paintings by Andy Warhol of the same subject from the 1960s, such as Warhol’s Triple Elvis. Turk applied diamond dust to some of the Elvis works made from diamanté applied to silkscreened canvas in vibrant pop colours, which sparkles in direct light. Warhol was one of the first artists to use diamond dust in his artworks. Examples of Turk’s Elvis series are Diamond Yellow Elvis, 2005 and Diamond Pink Elvis, 2005.

In 2007 Turk established, with his partner Deborah Curtis, The House of Fairy Tales, a children’s arts charity based in London, that brings together hundreds of artists, performers, actors, writers and philosophers to deliver theatrical events, guides and exhibitions. The project continues to further community education projects based around, supported by, and advocating art. The House of Fairy Tales tour the country in a mobile gallery horse box which made its festival debut at the 2008 Crunch festival in Hay-on-Wye. In 2009, they appeared at the Glastonbury Festival. In the summer of 2009, The House of Fairy Tales also staged The Long Weekend, a pop-up festival for all ages, hosted by Tate Modern.

Turk’s broad-ranging work often includes iconic images of characters drawn from popular culture as well as the art history literature. A collection of intricate life-sized waxworks, which incorporate the artist’s personal appearance, shows Turk in various poses in the form of different characters, such as Sid Vicious, Jean-Paul Marat and the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara. The most well-known work of Turk in this collection, Pop (1993) is waxwork depicting Turk in the role of Sid Vicious. The piece is a reinterpretation of the posture of Andy Warhol’s screenprint depicting Elvis Presley. In the painting, the right hand is pointed at towards a gun, an image that appears in several other works of the series, including Bum (1998).

Gavin Turk Net Worth

Gavin Turk is one of the richest Artist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gavin Turk 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Turk was a student at the Chelsea School of Art from 1986 until 1989, and also at the Royal College of Art from 1989 until 1991.

In 1991, the tutors in the Royal College of Art refused to award Gavin Turk with his postgraduate degree, a choice based on the graduation exhibit he had exhibited. It was called Cave the exhibit consisted of a studio area that was whitewashed, featuring a blue heritage marker (of the type typically located on old buildings) in recognition of his work as a sculptor. The plaque also noted “Gavin Turk worked here, 1989-1991”. It brought fame on Turk who’s work was coveted by a variety of collectors, including Charles Saatchi, who later displayed Turk’s work in the exhibition Sensation that toured London (Royal Academy of Arts), Berlin (Hamburger Bahnhof) and New York (Brooklyn Museum). Turk was present at the private viewing of the Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy, dressed as an out-and-out.

In 2001, Turk was awarded the Jack Goldhill Sculpture Prize for his work ‘Bag’ (2000) by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, who in 2007 also awarded him the Charles Wollaston award for his work ‘Dumb Candle’ (2007), a carving of a candle made from the top of an old broom handle.

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Who is Gavin Turk Dating?

According to our records, Gavin Turk married to Deborah Curtis. As of December 1, 2023, Gavin Turk’s is not dating anyone.

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Gavin Turk has exhibited widely internationally. His solo exhibitions include ‘L’Amour Fou’, David Nolan Gallery, New York City (2013), ‘Türk’, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey (2012), ‘Gavin & Turk’, Ben Brown Gallery, London (2013), ‘Jack Shit!’, Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgium (2011), ‘Before The World Was Round’, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria (2011) and ‘En Face’, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France (2010), ‘The Mirror Stage’, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (2009), ‘Burnt Out’, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland (2008), ‘Piss Off’, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria (2008) and ‘Negotiation of Purpose’, GEM Museum for Contemporary Art, The Hague, Netherlands (2007). Additionally, Turk has had solo exhibitions at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York (2005), the New Art Centre Sculpture Park and Gallery, Salisbury, England (2003), the New Art Gallery in Walsall, England (2002), and “The Stuff Show” at South London Gallery (1998).

Facts & Trivia

Gavin Ranked on the list of most popular Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Gavin Turk celebrates birthday on June 7 of every year.

In November 2018, Turk was one of 82 people arrested during a coordinated occupation of five bridges in Central London. The demonstration which was co- ordinated by Extinction Rebellion, was to raise the awareness of climate change. Turk said, “It seems like everyone is in an odd sense of denial about climate change.”