Acting [ edit ]
Quinn acted professionally in the late 1980s, portraying the young Italian violin maker Antonio Stradivari in the 1988 Italian film Stradivari, directed by Giacomo Battiato. Quinn's father Anthony starred in the same production as the adult Stradivari. [4] Quinn subsequently played the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí in Dalí, alongside English actress Sarah Douglas portraying his wife Gala. [5] Quinn won the best new actor award at the Biarritz Film Festival for his work on Dalí. [6]
In the early 2000s, Quinn made the decision to abandon his acting career to instead devote himself entirely to art.
Quinn's Forces of Nature series of sculptures have been displayed in England, Italy, the United States, Singapore, Netherlands, Qatar and Monaco. [8]
Charity [ edit ]
In May 2017 the sculpture Support was inaugurated in Grand Canal as a reminder of rising sea levels and climate change problems. [18]
In 2019 the sculpture Building Bridges was inaugurated in the basin of the Arsenale in Venice. The sculpture is formed by six pairs of hands representing humanity's universal values - Friendship, Faith, Help, Love, Hope and Wisdom. [19]
In July 2022 Quinn returned to Venice with a new sculpture: Baby 3.0, a mesh sculpture of a baby overlooking the Grand Canal in the garden of the Metropolitan City of Venice. [20]