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L oretta Quinn
the Garden Path
Memory of Dreams
Hand cut aluminium, 2002
262 x 74 x 74cm
Loretta was born in Hobart where she began her art studies at the University
of Tasmania. She has been living and working in Melbourne since 1981 and
this year commenced a PHD at Monash University. She recently held a
retrospective exhibition of her works entitled A Decade of Sculpture at
Stonnington Stables Museum of Art at Deakin University in Toorak. Loretta
has been a lecturer and teacher in Sculpture at Victorian Universities since
1985, including the Victorian College of the Arts, Monash University,
University of Melbourne and RMIT University where she is currently
employed. Her over eighty exhibitions have included fourteen solo shows
and she has received numerous awards and funding grants. Her work is
represented in collections nationally and internationally, including the
Australian National Gallery Canberra, Melbourne City Council and the City of
Port Phillip, with five permanent public sculptures in prominent locations
throughout the Melbourne CBD, including Beyond the Ocean of Existence, a
six metre bronze work at the corner of Flinders Lane and Swanston Street.
I have been
fascinated with
gardens since my
early childhood in
Tasmania. Looking
back now I realise
they appeared to me
to be sacred places
where the balance
between the natural
and built environments
were at their
most harmonious.
Shrines and the 19th
century landscaping
became mysterious
and almost magical
when combined with
the beautifully cared
for trees and
plantings. These were
the settings for
childhood dreams
that now have turned
to memories. This
work represents the
garden as a place for
reverence and
contemplation.
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