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Gavin Turk was born in 1967 in Guilford. He made his debut as an artist at his MA show in 19991 in which he was refused his degree certificate. His exhibition consisted on one blue English Heritage style plaque reading "Borough of Kensington, Gavin Turk, Sculptor, Worked here 1989-1991". He called this piece cave and it was this "memorial to a career that hadn't even started yet" that got him the attention of people like Saatchi and Jopling. From then on he's continued to explore what it means to be an artist using iconic figures such as Sid Vicious and Che Guevara to put across his ideas about identity, originality and status. Turk became more widely recognised in the art world in 1993 when he first unveiled his sculpture "Pop". This work is a life-size waxwork sculpture of himself as Sid Vicious posing as Warhol's painting of Elvis Presley imitating a cowboy. This deep layering of references and influences is typical of...

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