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Made in Britain at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum (2011) (press release)

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ADP staff - 12 Aug 11

Made in Britain at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum (2011) (press release) ADP staff; Text by British Council artdesigncafé | café library | Published 12 August 2011 Press Release [...] Made in Britain— Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection 1980 – 2010 Hong Kong Heritage Museum...

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Art and celebrity book summary (2010)

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John A. Walker - 13 Jul 10

Art and celebrity book summary (2010) Vladimir Dubosarsky & Alexander Vinogradov (book cover image). En Plein Air, (detail) (1995). Courtesy: Vilma Gold Gallery. Book published by Pluto Press, London in 2003. Art and celebrity : Introduction Fine artists are imbricated in celebrity...

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Gavin Turk at Goodman Gallery, Cape Town (press release) (2009-10)

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ADP staff - 05 Jan 10

Gavin Turk at Goodman Gallery, Cape Town (press release) (2009-10) ADP staff; Text by Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg / Cape Town, South Africa artdesigncafé | café library | Published 5 January 2010 Press Release Gavin Turk. Camouflage fright wig orange and grey, (2006). Silkscreen on...

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Tate Modern’s Pop Life release has been rejected

Art Design Publicity magazine
PR specialist behind Venetian mask - 19 Oct 09

Tate Modern’s Pop Life release has been rejected Our PR specialist "does a BANK"—and critically evaluates the press release for the exhibition Pop Life: Art in a Material World at Tate Modern in London. Here are the results:

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Pop Life: Art in a Material World at Tate Modern

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R.J. Preece (ADP) - 08 Oct 09

...Gavin Turk’s Pop 1993 also feature, as does selected works representing Damien Hirst’s recent Sotheby’s auction, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever. Tate Modern will also restage Hirst’s performance originally shown at Cologne’s ‘Unfair’ art fair in 1992. Identical twins will sit beneath two identical...

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Pop my cherry at Patricia Low Contemporary, Geneva (press release) (2009)

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ADP staff - 05 Oct 09

...Gavin Turk, proffering the shameless allure of pop’s mesmerising spectacle. Seduction and innuendo abound, its extravaganza is nothing short of scandalous. Seeding a legacy of frivolity and degeneracy’s symbiosis, Claes Oldenburg’s iconic chubby sausage and ice lolly— one of his earliest soft...

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Pop Life: Art in a Material World (2009)
(Press release)

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ADP staff - 27 Sep 09

...Gavin Turk’s Pop 1993 also feature, as does selected works representing Damien Hirst’s recent Sotheby’s auction, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever. Tate Modern will also restage Hirst’s performance originally shown at Cologne’s ‘Unfair’ art fair in 1992. Identical twins will sit beneath two identical...

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White Cube’s PR guru: Now it’s Honey Luard’s turn (2002)

Creative Business / Entrepreneurship
R.J. Preece (ADP) - 31 Jul 09

White Cube’s PR guru: Now it’s Honey Luard’s turn (2002) She’s part of future art history, and public relations history too. White Cube, Hoxton Square, London. The following is an interview I published of Honey Luard of White Cube gallery with the support of then-Make editor Patricia Ellis in...

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Damien Hirst’s murderme collection - works exhibited at Serpentine Gallery, London (2006-07) (Press release)

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ADP staff - 25 Nov 06

...Gavin Turk, Andy Warhol. For more press information please contact: Tom Coupe [...] Damien Hirst murderme collection at Serpentine Gallery: 1 | 2

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Gavin Turk (2005)

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R.J. Preece - 01 Apr 05

Gavin Turk (2005) Interview with the London-based artist known for approaching issues of authorship, originality, influence and appropriation. Gavin Turk. Box, (2002). Painted bronze, 31 x 30.5 x 46cm. Gavin Turk’s works are an art historian’s dream (or perhaps nightmare). You can often...

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Gavin Turk in Art and Celebrity (2003)

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John A. Walker - 08 Jun 03

Gavin Turk in Art and Celebrity (2003) An excerpt from John A. Walker’s now-classic book. In 1993, the young British artist Gavin Turk (b. 1967) created a life-size human figure from wax and fibreglass, added real clothes and a replica pistol, and placed it in a glass case. The sculpture,...

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Gavin Turk at South London Gallery

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R.J. Preece - 01 Dec 98

Gavin Turk at South London Gallery Review of exhibition Stuff show in London, England (1998). Gavin Turk approaches issues of originality, value, and celebrity. He also addresses art history and artistic cannibalism across a variety of well-executed media. With 18 works—including seven...

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Sensation at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (1997) (Press release)

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ADP staff - 12 Sep 97

...Gavin Turk, Mark Wallinger, Gillian Wearing, Rachel Whiteread and Cerith Wyn Evans. CATALOGUE The catalogue accompanying the exhibition examines the rise of these young British artists and places their work in a historical and critical context. Norman Rosenthal, Exhibitions Secretary at the...

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Gavin Turk. Box, 2002

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Gavin Turk. Box, 2002 Gavin Turk. Box, (2002). Painted bronze, 31 x 30.5 x 46cm.

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Gavin Turk. Bum, 2002

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Gavin Turk. Bum, 2002 Gavin Turk. Bum, (1998). Waxwork, 167 x 70 x 70 cm.

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Gavin Turk. Nomad, 2002

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Gavin Turk. Nomad, 2002 Gavin Turk. Nomad (red), 2003. Painted bronze, 42 x 105 x 169 cm.

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