Marc Quinns work was recommended by tutor when hanging my work and how he exhibits or shows his work and also what he produces. I think its work I can relate to and am a little disappointed with myself I didn't find this artist when researching earlier in my work.
http://www.marcquinn.com/
Biography
Marc Quinn’s wide-ranging oeuvre grapples with limits. Be it the limits of the human body or the cosmos, Quinn’s work explores the materiality of the human condition, our agency in shaping ourselves despite physical constraints and the strange intelligence that seems to govern our world. Both deeply spiritual and provocative, Quinn uses an uncompromising array of materials, from ice and blood to glass, marble and lead.
Quinn’s sculptures, paintings and drawings often deal with the distanced relationship we have with our bodies and with nature, highlighting how the conflict between the ‘natural’ and ‘cultural’ has a grip on the contemporary psyche. In 1999, Quinn began a series of marble sculptures of amputees as a way of re-interpreting Greek and Roman statuary and their depictions of an idealized whole. One such work depicted Alison Lapper, a woman who was born without arms, when she was heavily pregnant. Quinn subsequently enlarged this work to make it a major piece of public art for the fourth plinth of Trafalgar Square, and a third version of the work was also featured as a centrepiece of the 2012 London Paralympics Opening Ceremony.
A sculpture of his head made out of his own blood
http://www.npg.org.uk/about/press/marc-quinn-press.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1550864.stm
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/marc-quinn-2600
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