- One of the country’s original Young British Artists (YBA), Marc Quinn first came to the attention of the international art world with Self – a work which saw the artist creating a cast of his head in his own frozen blood. More recently, Quinn has continued exploring the human form and caused a stir with Siren – his solid gold statue of Kate Moss in a yoga position, which is currently on show as part of the British museum’s Statuephilia exhibition.
Branching out into jewelry design, while still nurturing a fascination with ice as an art form, Quinn has designed a collection of ten "frozen" strawberries in yellow and white gold with diamonds. - Indian-born sculptor, Anish Kapoor, has stood firmly at the forefront of the British art scene since the early 1980s. Renowned for his reflective pieces that challenge ideas of size and form, some of his most acclaimed larger sculptures include Sky Mirror – a huge round mirror that reflects its surroundings – and Cloud Gate – a giant steel bean-like structure.
Kapoor’s yellow, white gold and enamel Water Rings reflect the same sentiment as Sky Mirror and are a perfect example of how an artistic style can be reinterpreted into miniaturized sculptural jewelry. - A favorite of art magnate, Charles Saatchi, Tim Noble and Sue Webster specialize in creating innovative visual comments on consumer society. Their recent work, Dark Stuff, which is also currently on show at the British Museum, is inspired by Ancient Egyptian beliefs and examines attitudes to death andthe grotesque – a spotlight brilliantly transforms two collections of mummified creatures into silhouettes of the artists’ faces.
Maintaining their play on ideas of death and the macabre, Noble & Webster have designed a limited edition collection of Skull ’n’ Bone cufflinks in silver with pigeon blood rubies. -
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