STELLA SHAWZIN | Mother Holding her Baby
Portugese Pink Marble
66 x 56 x 40 cms / 26 x 22 x 16 inches
Softly rounded in Portuguese pink marble, this sculpture distils maternal love into serene abstraction. Shawzin’s refined carving and tranquil composition highlight the emotional depth and quiet dignity that define her work.
The success of art in the landscape depends not on contrast, but on conversation. A sculpture should make you feel the land more intensely, not distract from it. - Martha Schwartz (b. 1950)
Best known for her monumental sculptures that seem to defy gravity despite being made of bronze or marble, Stella Shawzin created a fascinating body of work that shines a light on the secrets of the human form with great detail and tenderness.
Shawzin worked on both a monumental and an intimate scale. Regardless of their size, all her sculptures are sensual expressions of the human form, a celebration of its full range of movement.
Throughout her career, Shawzin worked with a variety of media – bronze, marble, metal, wood and was intimately involved in every stage of their creative process. From her visits to the marble quarries at Carrara, to the building of her own foundry at her Cape Town studio, Stella Shawzin oversaw the execution of each artwork from conception to completion.
Shawzin passed away in 2020, at the age of one-hundred, leaving an incredible sculptural legacy as a key practitioner of South African modern art.
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