Following the successful tour of her Retrospective in 2014, internationally acclaimed sculptor, Maureen Quin, is exhibiting her bronze sculptures at the Cape Gallery in November 2015. This exhibition, titled “The Dance of Life”, is a collection of sculptures and drawings celebrating the elegant movement of the dancer’s body and the joy of dance. The exhibition features the limited edition collector’s book documenting Maureen Quin’s professional career and a new sculpture, titled ‘In the beginning’. Emerging from “The Dance of Life”, the piece clearly shows Maureen Quin further exploring the abstract expressive mould.
Born in Bloemfontein in 1934, Maureen studied at Goldsmith College of Art in London and has been exhibiting since 1962. The title of the exhibition has been taken from the medallion Maureen created for the collector’s edition of her book “Quin Sculpture: Sixty Years of Excellence”. For this exhibition Quin enlarged the “The Dance of Life”, which she feels encapsulates the vigour of life and ever changing dynamics of human relationships. In 2014 to celebrate Maureen’s eightieth year and sixty years as a professional sculptress, Virginia Reed curated a retrospective exhibition which opened in March 2014 at Oliewenhuis Museum, Bloemfontein; in May it showed at the North West University in Potchefstroom; in Bellville at the Sanlam Gallery in July - September. In October it opened in East London at the Ann Bryant Gallery. To complete the tour the retrospective closed at the GFI Art Gallery in Port Elizabeth, March 2015. This retrospective emphasized the fine quality of work Maureen has produced in her career and has entrenched her as an artist who has left her mark on the South African art community.
