Editing Gavin Turk (section)

==Early work==
[[File:Gavin Turk, 'Cave' Installation, 1991.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Gavin Turk, 'Cave' installation, Royal College of Art, 1991]]
Turk studied at [[Chelsea School of Art]] from 1986 to 1989,<ref name="artuk"/> and at the [[Royal College of Art]] from 1989 to 1991.<ref name="artuk">{{Cite web|title=Turk, Gavin, b. 1967 – Art UK|url= https://artuk.org/discover/artists/turk-gavin-b-1967 |access-date=2021-04-30|work=artuk.org}}</ref>

In 1991, tutors at the [[Royal College of Art]] refused to present Gavin Turk with his postgraduate degree,<ref name="artuk"/> a decision based on his graduation exhibition, which was titled ''Cave'', and consisted of a whitewashed studio space, containing a [[Blue plaque|blue heritage plaque]] of the kind normally found on historic buildings, commemorating his own presence as a sculptor, stating "Gavin Turk worked here, 1989–1991".<ref name="lumas"/> This bestowed some instant notoriety on Turk, whose work was collected by numerous collectors including [[Charles Saatchi]],<ref name="artuk"/> who later exhibited Turk's work in the exhibition [[Sensation (art exhibition)|Sensation]], which toured London ([[Royal Academy of Arts]]), Berlin ([[Hamburger Bahnhof]]) and New York ([[Brooklyn Museum]]). Turk attended the private view of the Sensation exhibition at the [[Royal Academy]], dressed as a down-and-out. The blue plaque from the ''Cave'' instillation was later exhibited in a museum style case as ''Relic (Cave)'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Relic (Cave) |url=http://gavinturk.com/artworks/image/17/ |access-date=2022-08-03 |website=gavinturk.com}}</ref> he also had a version of it made by one of the  companies who make blue plaques for [[English Heritage]] and this is in the [[Tate]] collection.<ref name="cavey">{{Cite web |last=Tate |title='Cavey', Gavin Turk, 1991–7 |url= https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turk-cavey-t13208 |work=tate.org.uk |access-date=2022-08-03}}</ref>

He has subsequently produced an extensive body of work, which purports to question the value and integrity of a hermetic artistic identity.<ref name="vam">{{cite web|url= http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/photography/photographerframe.php?photographerid=ph070 |title=Photography – Victoria and Albert Museum |work=Vam.ac.uk |date=18 January 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20030727092009/http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/photography/photographerframe.php?photographerid=ph070 |archive-date= July 27, 2003 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Turk was considered to be one of the group of artists known as the [[Young British Artists]].<ref name="pop">{{Cite web|url= http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/pop-life-art-material-world/pop-life-art-material-world-explore/po-9 |title= Pop Life: Art in a Material World |date=2009 |work=tate.org.uk |archive-date= August 3, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120803023623/http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/pop-life-art-material-world/pop-life-art-material-world-explore/po-9 }}</ref>