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In Just Stop Soup Gavin Turk creates a unique oil painting that draws on Warhol's Soup

Paintings, detourning an iconic label of a can of Heinz tomato soup like the one, that

was thrown at Van Gogh’s sunflowers as an act of civil disobedience to draw attention to

the lack of political will from the UK government to stop the fossil fuel programme.

Inspired by the action on 14 th October 2022, Turk first created his artistic response. Now

(for this show) in 2023 he has created a new oil painted version.

GAVIN TURK BIO:

Gavin Turk (b 1967) is a British born, internationally renowned artist, who lives and

works in London. He has pioneered many forms of contemporary British sculpture,

including the painted bronze, the waxwork, the recycled art-historical icon and the use

of rubbish in art.

Turk’s installations and sculptures deal with issues of authorship, authenticity and

identity. Concerned with the ‘myth’ of the artist and ontological questioning. Turk’s

engagement with this modernist, avant-garde debate stretches back to the ready-mades

of Marcel Duchamp.

In 1991, the Royal College of Art refused Turk a degree on the basis that his final show,

‘Cave’, consisted of a whitewashed studio space containing only a blue heritage plaque

commemorating his presence ‘Gavin Turk worked here 1989-91'. Instantly gaining

notoriety through this installation, Turk was spotted by Charles Saatchi and was

included in several YBA exhibitions.

Gavin Turk’s work is held within public and private collections worldwide, including but

not limited to the TATE, Museum of Modern Art New York, Museum MMK Für Moderne

Kunst, Musée Magritte Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

In 2013 Prestel published Turk’s first monograph, showcasing more than two decades

of his work and in 2014 Trolley Books published ‘This Is Not A Book About Gavin Turk’

which playfully explores themes associated with the artist’s work via thirty notable

contributors.