Featured Artist: Marc Quinn

Marc Quinn’s sculpture, paintings and drawings often address the relationship that people have with their bodies. He uses many different materials from traditional marble to more experimental mediums such as blood or feces in order to convey paradoxes that help to define who we are. The spiritual and the physical, cultural and natural, cerebral and sexual--all these things are addressed in his works.


Self, blood, 1991



Self is probably Quinn's most famous work, an ongoing self-portrait that he redoes every five years. The heads are made of Quinn's own blood, representing the intimate connection he has with his work.


Allison Lapper, marble, 2005

Another of his works was a sculpture of Allison Lapper, a woman with no arms and truncated legs. The marble statue depicts the woman naked and very pregnant. For a time, it was featured in Trafalgar's Square, a testiment to feminine strength alongside Nelson, a figure of traditional masculine power.

Other works are daring, challenging society's views of normality and attraction.


Siren, solid gold, 2008