Artworks - Marc Quinn
ARTWORKS COMMISSION 2004
Each year, Artworks has commissioned a limited-edition print from an internationally acclaimed artist
with work in the Tate Collection. Past commissions have been by Antony Gormley, Richard Wentworth,
Anish Kapoor and Julian Opie. Each artist has generously donated their work free of charge to the Artworks Awards.
In 2004, the special Artworks commission, entitled Spring Winter, was by Marc Quinn. The print is one
of the paintings from the frozen flower garden series entitled Italian Landscape. Derived from a
photographic image they are pigment prints using a unique technique. The Italian Landscape paintings,
and a twelve metre high steel sculpture of a flower, were recently included in the Art of the Garden
exhibition at Tate Britain.
Marc Quinn was born in London in 1964 and read History of Art at Cambridge University (1982-85),
beginning working as a sculptor in 1984. Marc came to prominence in the early 1990s with his
sculpture Self (1991), a refrigerated cast of his own head made using nine pints of his own blood.
Since then, Marc has produced a diverse range of work, most of which focuses on the physical
states of the body and addresses ideas about science, mortality and survival in our age of
genetic manipulation. His winning sculpture commission, a portrait entitled Alison Lapper
Pregnant, for the empty Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London, will be unveiled in 2005.
It is to be carved out of one block of white marble and will stand 3.7 metres high. Marc's
work is included in a wide range of public collections in the UK and internationally.
‘All too often art is sidelined in schools ... but we mustn’t give up.
The piece that Artworks commissioned from me as an Award is intended to be an optimistic work showing
that young talent can blossom from an unpromising environment.’
Marc Quinn, Artist
‘When the Marc Quinn prints arrived there were tears in the eyes of our
students ... me too!’
Susan Coles, Advanced Skills Teacher, Biddick School, Tyne and Wear,
Artworks Award Winner 2004
Winter Spring by Marc Quinn.
Specially commissioned limited-edition print
presented to winning schools, teachers, Motivated Pupils and Highly Commended entries, 2004
36cm x 55cm
We Swam Amongst the Fishes by Julian Opie.
Specially commissioned, limited-edition print presented to winning schools,
teachers, Motivated Pupil winners and Highly Commended entries, 2003
75cm x 70cm
Anish Kapoor specially commissioned, limited-edition print
presented to winning schools, teachers, Motivated Pupils
and Highly Commended entries, 2002
72.5cm x 87.5cm
Richard Wentworth specially commissioned, limited-edition print
presented to winning schools, teachers and Motivated Individual winners, 2001
52cm x 75cm
Domain by Antony Gormley. Specially commissioned, limited-edition print
presented to winning schools, teachers and Motivated Individual winners, 2000
91cm x 77cm
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