Marc Quinn

Marc Quinn was born in London in 1964 and learned to cast in bronze in 1983. His sculpture takes the body as a primary source: Self (1991) is a cast of his own head made from his frozen blood, and Emotional Detox: The Seven Deadly Sins, shown at the Tate Gallery in 1995, comprised seven lead casts of parts of his body made by the lost wax method. He held his first solo exhibition in London in 1988, was included in Young British Artists II at the Saatchi Gallery in 1993 and in Sensation at the Royal Academy in 1997.