Marc Quinn

Quick Facts

Full Name	Marc Quinn
Occupation	Sculptor
Date Of Birth	Jan 8, 1964(1964-01-08)
Age	60
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Capricorn

Marc Quinn Biography

Marc Quinn is one of the most popular and richest Sculptor who was born on January 8, 1964 in London, England, United Kingdom. British artist, who was a member of the group Young British Artists. He created the piece British artist who has been a part of the group Young British Artists. He sculpted the piece entitled Alison Lapper Pregnant and Self. Pregnant, and Self.

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Marc Quinn (born 8 January 1964) is a British contemporary visual artist whose work includes sculpture, installation and painting. Quinn explores ‘what it is to be human in the world today’ through subjects including the body, genetics, identity, environment and the media. His work has used materials that vary widely, from blood, bread and flowers, to marble and stainless steel. Quinn has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Sir John Soane’s Museum, Tate, National Portrait Gallery, Fondation Beyeler, Fondazione Prada and South London Gallery. The artist was a notable member of the Young British Artists movement.

Quinn’s early work was concerned with issues of corporeality, decay and preservation. He experimented with organic and degradable materials including bread, blood, lead, flowers and DNA producing sculpture and installation, including Bread Sculptures (1988), Self (1991), Emotional Detox (1995), Garden (2000), and DNA Portrait of John Sulston (2001). In the 2000s, he began to focus on the use of marble, bronze and concrete. The artist explored the body and its extremes through the lens of classical and urban materials; works included The Complete Marbles (1999 – 2005), Alison Lapper Pregnant (2004), Evolution (2005 – 2009) and Planet (2008). Since 2010 he has worked with metals including stainless steel, aluminium, graffiti paints, seaside detritus, tapestry and painting, as seen in The History Paintings (2009–present) and The Toxic Sublime (2014–present).

He was married to Georgia Byng, an author. They have two children.

Marc Quinn Net Worth

Marc Quinn is one of the richest Sculptor from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Marc Quinn 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He studied history of art at Robinson College in Cambridge and was an assistant to the sculptor He studied the history of art at Robinson College, Cambridge and worked as an assistant to sculptor Barry Flanagan..

His sculptures, paintings and drawings often address the distant relationship between humans and their bodies.

Quinn was born in London in 1964 to a French mother and a British father. He spent his early years in Paris, where his father was a physicist working at the BIPM (Bureau International des Poids et Mesures). Quinn recalls an early fascination with the scientific instruments in his father’s laboratory, in particular atomic clocks. He studied history and history of art at Robinson College, Cambridge.

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Who is Marc Quinn Dating?

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In 1995 Quinn stopped drinking. Emotional Detox, a series of seven sculptures made of lead and cast from the artist’s own body, were created at this time. Inspired by traditional iconography of the seven deadly sins, in each sculpture Quinn’s body is being torn apart and reconfigured, reflecting detoxification as both a physical and psychological battle.

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Marc Ranked on the list of most popular Sculptor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Marc Quinn celebrates birthday on January 8 of every year.

In 1998, he was given a solo exhibition at the South London Gallery, and in 1999, he had a solo exhibition at Kunstverein Hannover. The Groninger Museum presented a solo exhibition of Quinn’s work in 2000. The artist was then invited to present a solo exhibition at the Fondazione Prada in Milan in 2000, where he presented an ambitious new work Garden. In 2002, he was given a solo exhibition at Tate Liverpool which included new works and photography, and coincided with the Liverpool Biennial, where Quinn presented 1+1=3. In 2001, the National Portrait Gallery gave Quinn a solo exhibition for his genomic portrait of Sir John Sulston.

Why does Marc Quinn use blood?

Blood is the essence of life; a material that has both a symbolic and real function. In the series of Self sculptures, Quinn uses ten pints of his own blood to create a self-portrait in both shape and material , a work that is both an image and a real part of him.

Why is Marc Quinn famous?

He came into prominence with a sculpture he created with his own blood. It was in 1991 that Marc Quinn first gained critical acclaim with his sculpture Self. The sculpture is a life-sized self-portrait bust, crafted entirely out of Quinn’s own blood.

Where is Marc Quinns self?

Quinn’s notorious frozen self-portrait series made of his own blood, Self (1991–present) was subject to a retrospective at Fondation Beyeler in 2009. Quinn lives and works in London.

Why did Marc Quinn create self?

Quinn said the idea for the Self series came about through a frustration with the idea that, at the time, art was about art, trapped in a “formalist eddy”. “I was interested in making art that was about real life … and I thought I would start with myself,” he said.

What inspired Quinn?

Inspired by Rembrandt’s self-portraits charting his visage from youth to old age , Quinn has undertaken to produce a new “Self” every five years, which involves extracting eight pints of his blood over several months.