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STELLA SHAWZIN | Nursing Mother
Bronze
7" x 15" x 8" / 17 x 38 x 21 cms
Bronze sculpture of a mother nursing her child.
Born in South Africa in 1920 and working across the world over a nearly-eighty-year career, Stella Shawzin’s work is defined by its quest to capture the moving body. Becoming a professional artist in her thirties, her initial career in acting and dance clearly informed her understanding of movement, generating her work’s gravity-defying qualities.
As she herself observed: “My main theme is the human form in its infinite variety. I am terribly excited by the never ending variations in position, feeling, movement, its animal quality. It is limitless… timeless”.
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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