Hang-Up Gallery

Marc Quinn is a contemporary British artist known as one of the Young British Artists, a group that emerged in London in the late 1980s to become among the most successful artists of their generation. Quinn is known for his explorations of the human form through surreal imagery and unconventional materials, such as his self-portrait series Self (1991–present), which consists of sculptural busts made from the artist’s own frozen blood. One of his most famous projects was the public installation of Alison Lapper Pregnant, a monumental marble sculpture of a woman born without arms and with shortened legs. The heavily pregnant figure occupied the fourth plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square in 2007, inciting both curiosity and notoriety within and...