The lure of the street May 31, 2008
Compare them with Evans's tiny (relatively speaking) black-and-white portraits of poor sharecroppers from the 1930s and you realise that these pictures have roughly the political, ethical and artistic integrity of Gavin Turk turning up at the opening of Charles Saatchi's infamous 1997 Sensation show dressed as a homeless person: an indulgent bid for acclaim in the guise of some kind of compassionate activism ... One is primed, at this point, for a Sam Taylor-Wood video of David Beckham or... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Can you do me a quick cow's head? Mar 5, 2008
He admits that, over the years, some of his clients - Rachel Whiteread, Gary Hume, Gavin Turk, Keith Tyson, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Mark Wallinger - have been sensitive about publicising the fact that he makes works for them. "In a way, it's more to do with the demands being made upon them, and the nature of the art world," he says. (Guardian Unlimited)
'In the Beginning' marks Hepworth's beginning at UCSD gallery Jan 21, 2008
He studied at the University of London's Goldsmith College, a nerve center for emerging artists, where fellow students included Anya Gallaccio and Gavin Turk, who gained collective fame as part of the Young British Artists generation in the early to mid-1990s. And like some of those artists, Hepworth wasn't reluctant to organize exhibitions. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Letter: Dismay at British Council art cuts Jan 12, 2008
Anthony Abrahams, Shazeela Alim, Sam Bakkabulindi, Dr Wendy Baron OBE, Emmanuel Basaza, Lewis Biggs Director, Liverpool Biennial, Sir Peter Blake, Quentin Blake, Iwona Blazwick Director, Whitechapel Art Gallery, OBE, Lord Melvyn Bragg of Wigton, Ralph Brown, Jon Buck, Louisa Buck The Art Newspaper, Anthony Bukenya, David Bwambale, Richard Calvocoressi Director, Henry Moore Foundation, Jeffrey Camp RA, Sir Anthony Caro OM CBE, Eva Chadwick, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Sarah Jane Checkland, Emma... (Guardian Unlimited)
Changes at British Council 'appalling' Jan 12, 2008
The signatories also include artists Sir Peter Blake, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Gilbert and George, Antony Gormley, Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin, Anish Kapoor, Sam Taylor-Wood, Gavin Turk and Mark Wallinger. The leaders of some of Britain's most important galleries have also signed, including the Tate's Sir Nicholas Serota, Stephen Deuchar of Tate Britain, and Sir Norman Rosenthal and Charles Saumarez Smith of the Royal Academy. (Guardian Unlimited)
What am I bid for this priceless piece? May 5, 2007
When Prior Weston school in Shoreditch, east London, mounts its next fundraising event, it won't be selling jam or asking punters to guess the weight of the fruitcake: it will be auctioning works of art by Rachel Whiteread and Gavin Turk ... At least a dozen of its parents happen to be internationally recognised Britartists - among them Gavin Turk, Cornelia Parker, Rachel Whiteread and Cathy de Monchaux ... And Gavin Turk has made a work called Dumb Candle, a piece carved from a broom handle, a... (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
- Stephen Bayley Apr 22, 2007
Gavin Turk had a similar problem when gallery attendants mistook a piece of his work for rubbish, a mistake previously only made by critics. Any day of the week, you can see visitors to Tate Modern staring reflectively at fire hose reels, according them the merit suggested by Duchamp. (Guardian Unlimited)
Peter York on Ads Dec 3, 2006
And if you give more of those people the hots for London in 1996 on the grounds that they might sit next to, say, Gavin Turk at a dinner party, then you're halfway there. You can see people limbering up to be nasty to be YBAs. (Independent)
You have to laugh, really Nov 14, 2006
"Some of Murderme was destroyed in the 2004 Momart warehouse fire in east London; what's left includes lots of works by Sarah Lucas (Hirst probably has the biggest collection of his old friend's work), Angus Fairhurst, Gavin Turk and other former Young British Artists. "I bought art originally to support artists and also because I liked them. There was a lot of trading that went on. (Guardian Unlimited)
Warts and Comb-Overs Sep 22, 2006
Several artists working today count Hanson among their influences, says Ms. Hanson, including Gavin Turk, Ron Mueck, Jake and Dinos Chapman and Charles Ray. Hanson and Andy Warhol were going to do portraits of each other, but Warhol died before the project began. (Lambertville Beacon, NJ)
Arts World Cup: win £2000 High Def TV Jul 4, 2006
LEFT HALF Gavin Turk If he can make a statue of himself as Sid Vicious (in the stance of Elvis), then he could do a passable imitation of Vinnie Jones ... Like Gavin Turk, an intelligent player. (TimesOnline)
