Editing Gavin Turk (section)

== Sculpture and public works ==
[[File:Damien Hirst Artist worked here 1999-2010.jpg|right|thumb|130px|''[[Blue Plaque]]'' by Turk]]
[[File:Gavin Turk, Nomad, 2002.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Gavin Turk, ''Nomad'', 2002]]
A series of three-dimensional [[trompe-l'œil]] works includes objects cast into bronze, painted to give the appearance of the original object. Possibly his most revered works, these include bronze sculptures of plastic rubbish bags, see "Bag" (2000). Other sculptures include ''Nomad'' (2002), a bronze cast of a sleeping bag, and ''Box'' (2002), which resembles a cardboard box. Turk is perhaps the leading exponent of the painted bronze, and has cast objects from spent matches to worn paving slabs to discarded vehicle exhaust pipes. [[File:Gavin Turk 'Nail', 2011, photo by Andy Keate.jpg|thumb|right|100px|''Nail'', 2011, photo by Andy Keate]]

In December 2009, Turk took part in the "Bricks" exhibition at Area 10 in Peckham in Southeast London. However, the day before the exhibition was to start, organisers noticed that his piece entitled ''Revolting Brick'' had been stolen and replaced with a fake brick. The fake brick held the words "Thank You Have a Nice Day, Next" and was part of a set of 500 that was given away at the exhibition. ''Revolting Brick'' was number eight in a series of ten that Turk had created and signed. The artist stated that he "was upset but flattered" at what had happened and that the theft "raises questions about value and worth".<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/6760478/Gavin-Turk-brick-worth-3000-is-stolen-and-replaced-by-40-pence-equivalent.html | work=The Daily Telegraph | first=Caroline | last=Gammell | title=Gavin Turk brick worth £3,000 is stolen and replaced by 40 pence equivalent | date=8 December 2009}}</ref>

In May 2011, Turk's first large-scale, 12-metre public sculpture was unveiled between the [[One New Change]] City mall, designed by [[Pritzker Prize]]-winning architect [[Jean Nouvel]], and [[St Paul's Cathedral]].

In 2017 Turk placed an unofficial [[blue plaque]] commemorating [[Damien Hirst]] at Newport Street Gallery in London.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Damien Hirst—The Collector|url=https://fineartmultiple.com/blog/damien-hirst-collector-gavin-turk/|access-date=2022-12-04|website=fineartmultiple.com}}</ref>

In September 2021, Gavin Turk made a piece called ''Piscio D'Artista'' whereby he canned his own urine and sold it for its weight in silver through Kickstarter, as an homage to [[Piero Manzoni]]'s 1961 art piece [[Artist's Shit]] ''Merda D'Artista'', in which Manzoni canned his own excrement and sold it for its weight in gold.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gavin Turk On Selling Cans of His Own Urine |url=https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/gavin-turk-interview |access-date=2022-03-28 |website=Widewalls |language=en}}</ref>