Editing Gavin Turk (section)

== Practice ==
[[File:Gavin Turk Death of Marat de Sade 1999 Iris print image 16¼ × 13⅞ inches (413 × 352 mm).jpg|right|thumb|150px|Gavin Turk, ''Death of Marat de Sade'', 1999, Iris print image, {{cvt|16+1/4|x|13+7/8|in|cm}}]]
Turk's wide ranging practice often incorporates iconic images of figures taken from popular culture and art historical sources. A series of detailed life-sized [[wax sculpture|waxworks]], incorporating the artist's own appearance, features the artist assuming various poses as different characters, including [[Sid Vicious]], [[Jean-Paul Marat]], and the [[Marxist]] revolutionary [[Che Guevara]].<ref name="lumas"/> Turk's most famous work in this series, ''Pop'' (1993), is a waxwork of Turk as Sid Vicious. The work appropriates the stance of [[Andy Warhol]]'s screen print of [[Elvis Presley]]. In the work, the right hand is pointing a gun, a motif which recurs in other works in the series, such as ''Bum'' (1998).<ref name="lumas">{{Cite web |last=Tate |title=Gavin Turk |url= https://uk.lumas.com/artist/gavin_turk/?msclkid=7ed33e5d0ef61045c9755a80dafa1280|work=uk.lumas.com|date=2023}}</ref>

Turk has appropriated recognisable elements from artists such as [[Jacques-Louis David]], [[Yves Klein]], [[Marcel Duchamp]], [[Andy Warhol]], [[René Magritte]], [[Alighiero Boetti]], [[Robert Morris (artist)]], [[Jasper Johns]] and [[The Death of Marat]] painting by [[Jacques-Louis David]].<ref name="lumas"/>