Gavin YOUNGE (b. circa 1960)
Bull
1998
bronze
size unknown
BIOGRAPHY
Gavin Younge works is a sculptor, author and curator.
He attained an MA in Fine Arts in 1988 and is an Emeritus Professor in Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. He is a past Director of the Michaelis School of Fine Art.
In 2012 he was awarded a UCT Creative Arts Award in recognition of the substantive and discursive contribution his work has made to contemporary art practice.
In 2011 he won the Handspring Puppet Company’s award for his work with Jane Taylor, and his sculptural work has been acknowledged in various publications on contemporary art including Sue Williamson and Ashraf Jamal’s Future Present: Art in the new South Africa (David Phillip, 1996), Jill Bennett’s Empathic Vision: Affect, Trauma, and Contemporary Art (Stanford University Press, 2005) and Maud de la Forterie’s essays ‘Deep’ and ‘Skin’, published in French (Espace Cosmopolis, 2009).
He has participated in two Nirox Foundation Sculpture Park exhibitions, and in several exhibitions featuring large-scale sculpture at the Everard Read Galleries in Cape Town and Johannesburg.
Solo exhibitions include his project using vellum that was shown in Paris and at Salses as part of the Monuments et Animauxcycle of exhibitions sponsored by the French Monuments Council.
His solo exhibition, Water Matters, featuring folded metal sculptures and six ‘redrawn geographies’, was presented by Ilse Schermers Gallery in 2016.