About Maureen Quin
Maureen Quin is a deeply passionate and emotionally engaged sculptor. South Africa is richer for the insightful and thematically relevant quality of her bronze sculptures.
Her sculptures are alive with volumes and eloquent voids; her sculptures are visually challenging and harmonious – the bronze sculptures beg pondering, which is precisely what Maureen Quin wishes the public to do.
Gallery
New Work
Abstract Expressive
Post Paris
The Hunt
Interaction
Ballet Dancers
Realistic
Portraits
Cats
Commissions
The Quin Book
Maureen Quin: Sixty Years of Excellence
In 2014 Maureen Quin celebrates 60 years as a professional sculptress. This book reveals and discusses her development, her tenacity and passion.
“The happiness we all yearn for does not depend on circumstance – it depends on your inner self. Therefor our struggle for freedom is not from oppression of man but from the oppression of our own petty jealousies and materialism.” ~ Maureen Quin.
News
The Address that was Never Heard
Maureen Quin spent hours preparing her address to the Rhodes University Council and audience, but after hearing Prof Magadla’s inroduction she was so overwhelmed, she spoke off the cuff. Below is what the audience would have heard, had Maureen stuck to the...
Citation by The Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Prof Siphokazi Magadla at the presntation of Maureen Quin for the Degree of Doctor of Laws, honouris causa.
Citation for Maureen Quin Honorary graduand, Rhodes University, 25 March 2026 By Professor Siphokazi Magadla “Necks are important to me. The way you hold your head tells everybody how you are...
An Honourary Doctorate for Maureen Quin from Rhodes University
https://mailchi.mp/mweb/news-from-quin-sculpture-garden-galleries-16540109
Quin Sculpture garden
Alexandria Eastern Cape
The garden boasts a collection of more than 100 sculptures, paintings and sketches on view.
Enjoy as many cups of tea/coffee/lemon syrup as you like under the jacaranda tree.