Marc Quinn
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Biography - Marc Quinn
Marc Quinn (British, born 1964) is a leading contemporary artist. He first came to prominence in the early 1990s, when he and several peers redefined what it was to make and experience contemporary art.
artworks - Marc Quinn
The Raft Paintings 2017—present. All About Love 2016—2017. The Toxic Sublime 2014—present
Self - Marc Quinn
Self is a self-portrait of the artist, but one that literally uses his body as material since the cast of Quinn's head, immersed in frozen silicone, is created from ten pints of his own blood. In this way, the materiality of the sculpture has both a symbolic and real function.
Marc Quinn
History Painting + 20 May – 16 October 2022 Yale Center for British Art, New Haven The exhibition Marc Quinn: History Painting + presents six works displayed among the historical collections of the Yale Centre for... View full details >
Flower sculptures - Marc Quinn
In the frozen flower sculptures, which range from single works to the large-scale, walk-through installation Garden (2000), Quinn captures what he has described as “the purest and most magical transformation of reality into art”. In these sculptures, real flowers in a perfect state of bloom have been plunged into frozen silicone oil.
Irises - Marc Quinn
In these works, Quinn depicts an iris at close range, in a photorealist, non-expressive way on a round canvas. The eye is enlarged so that it appears virtually abstract and the pupil appears like a aperture or hole in the centre of a fine, detailed network of colourful lines.
read - Marc Quinn
Marc Quinn (British, born 1964) is a leading contemporary artist. He first came to prominence in the early 1990s, when he and several peers redefined what it was to make and experience contemporary art.
Flower paintings - Marc Quinn
This series of flower paintings subverts one of the oldest forms of picture making: the still-life. To create these hyper-realist oil paintings, Quinn creates a still-life arrangement in his studio using flowers and fruit bought in London on a particular day.
Artist's body - Marc Quinn
These early works explore the transformative potential of material and the notion that, for meaning, material is as important as form. The sculptures all use the artist's own body as a model: both as a particular individual and a generic human form.