Immigrant Heritage Week Panel Discussion
New York Public Library, April 2019
Video & Audio

In April 2019 Marc Quinn was invited by New York City's Mayors Office of Immigrant Affairs to present "Our Blood" in New York City. Joined by Fatuma Musa Afra, Sally Sussman and Mark Thompson the four panelists discussed art as a means for social change.

Marc Quinn: After Bloodhead
Jaipur Literature Festival, 2019
Video & Audio

Quinn discusses his practice and upcoming project called Our Blood at the 2019 Jaipur Literature Festival in India.

Marc Quinn’s Five Favourite Objects
Studio visit with British Vogue
Video & Audio

Marc Quinn takes British Vogue on a tour of the studio

Hyper Real
Interview with the National Gallery of Australia
Video & Audio

Marc Quinn talks about "Self"

Marc Quinn: the art of love | Life & Arts
Interview with Griselda Murray Brown
Video & Audio

Marc Quinn takes the Financial Times on a tour of his exhibition 'Drawn from Life' at Sir John Soane's Museum.

Marc Quinn and the Mutability of the Human Body | Brilliant Ideas
Interview with Bloomberg
Video & Audio

Marc Quinn speaks about the relationship between the human body and perceptions of beauty on Bloomberg's 'Brilliant Ideas'.

The River Sweats Oil and Tar
by Hettie Judah
Selected Essays

Hettie Judah writes about how Quinn finds lyricism in human detritus and gathered flotsam for his body of work titled The Toxic Sublime.

CV
CV

Lives and works in London

1985
BA History of Art, University of Cambridge

1964
Born in London

Biography
Marc's biography and selected artworks
Biography

In Your Face
Interview with Carrie Scott
Video & Audio

Marc Quinn opens up in an interview with Carrie Scott about his blood sculptures, art at the Paralympic Games, and public art.

Looking for Beauty in the Breaking Storm: Marc Quinn and the Aesthetics of Destruction
by Hettie Judah
Selected Essays

Hettie Judah writes about Marc Quinn's exhibition Violence and Serenity.

The Threads of History
An interview with Marc Quinn by Tim Marlow
Selected Interviews

Tim Marlow interviews Marc Quinn about his exhibition, The Sleep of Reason, at ARTER in 2014.

Held by Desire at White Cube, Hong Kong
Video & Audio

Marc discusses his exhibition 'Held by Desire' at White Cube Hong Kong. The exhibition explores how desire shapes our universe and affects man's relationship with nature.

Marc Quinn “All the Time in the World”
Interview with Benjamin Genocchio
Video & Audio

Marc Quinn discusses his monumental shell sculptures with Blouin Artinfo's Editor-in-Chief, Benjamin Genocchio.

About Change and Life
Marc Quinn in conversation with Germano Celant
Selected Interviews

Germano Celant and Marc Quinn discuss Quinn's work in an interview accompanying Memory Box, published on the occasion of Quinn's exhibition at Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice in 2013.

(Still) Life in the Garden City
by Wenny Teo
Selected Essays

Dr. Wenny Teo writes about Quinn's large scale installation Planet on permanent display at The Gardens by the Bay in Singapore.

The Eye of History - Marc Quinn’s New Cosmology
by Jerry Brotton
Selected Essays

It is in the shifting sands of the littoral zone that Marc Quinn has been making art for over two decades. In works involving his body and those of others, as well as an extraordinarily diverse array of media and materials, Quinn has simultaneously shocked and seduced us into asking questions about who we are as late modern people.

The Fabergé Big Egg Hunt - Marc Quinn in his Studio
The creation of Quinn's Fabergé Egg
Video & Audio

Marc Quinn talks about his "Labyrinth" series as inspiration for his commissioned Fabergé Egg in support of Action for Children and the Elephant Family.

Marc Quinn’s “Burning Desire”
A close up of Marc Quinn's 'Burning Desire'
Video & Audio

Sotheby's TV features Marc Quinn's red orchid sculpture 'Burning Desire' on view at Chatsworth

Statuephilia: Marc Quinn’s Siren at the British Museum
Marc Quinn at the British Museum
Video & Audio

Marc Quinn discusses the concept behind his gold sculpture of Kate Moss 'Siren' while being installed at the British Museum.

Self at the National Portrait Gallery
Video & Audio

Marc discusses Self and his wider practice with Sandy Nairne, Director of the National Portrait Gallery and Tim Marlow, Director of Exhibitions at White Cube.

The Journey not the Destination
Marc Quinn in conversation with Joachim Pissarro
Selected Interviews

Joachim Pissarro and Marc Quinn discuss the subject of body transformation on the occasion of Quinn's 2010 exhibition Allanah, Buck, Catman, Chelsea, Michael, Pamela and Thomas.

Bring me the head of Marc Quinn!
by Will Self
Selected Essays

Will Self writes about Marc Quinn's series of self portraits made with the artist's own blood.

Evolution at White Cube, London
Video & Audio

Marc speaks about his work Evolution, a major new installation featuring a series of nine monumental sculptures, in fleshy pink marble, which represent the growth of the human embryo and foetus during its gestation.

Tate Liverpool
Video & Audio

Wander around Quinn's exhibition at Tate Liverpool in 2002.

Tate Liverpool
Marc Quinn in conversation with Sarah Whitfield
Selected Interviews

Sarah Whitfield interviews Marc Quinn about his work in connection with his 2002 Tate Liverpool exhibition.

The South Bank Show
Video & Audio

The first collaborative project between Marc Quinn and filmmaker Gerry Fox.