Portrait of Something that I'll Never Really See, 1997 Gavin Turk, born 1968 (portrait originally taken by Anthony Oliver)

Gavin Turk began his career as an artist by exhibiting a memorial blue heritage plaque in his studio at the Royal College of Art, which said "Gavin Turk worked here, 1989-1991". He has subsequently made work which questions the value and integrity of a coherent artistic identity. Turk does this with wit and economy, by paraphrasing already well-known works of art from the recent past. He also examines what the paraphernalia of ‘genius’ consists of - a signature; an identifiable style; a marketable identity.