Overview:
Quinn has long been a user of 3D computer imaging technology to produce the forms of his artworks. The first Cybernetically Engineered… works, are based on earlier meat sculptures Quinn made using animal carcasses, which were cast in bronze and presented on plinths in the manner of classical torsos. Quinn chose certain rabbit sculptures from the earlier series and enlarged them, using 3D computer scanning and printing technology to exactly render them on a human scale, before casting them in the traditional material of bronze. These sculptures, while depicting abstracted animal forms, suggest something altogether more figurative, referencing not only the coterminous relationship of evolution to technology but also the overriding urge of human desire to shape and organise the natural world around us.