Bob Quinn

Born in 1948, Bob Quinn enjoyed a long career within the Irish advertising business as a commercial artist, visualiser and designer before becoming a full-time sculptor in 2002. He now works full time as a sculptor from his studio in Blackrock, Dublin.                                

Although his figurative work can be described as Expressionist in style, Bob owes much to the influences of Epstein, Marini and painters like Millet and Degas. His sculptures celebrate the drama and nobility in often the most ordinary of human activity.  The sadness, the humour, the joy.  He likes to explore the theatrical quality of three-dimension and is particularly interested in the dramatic importance of light and shadow, and how the colour and appearance of surface texture constantly changes.                                          

Bob enjoys the laborious bronze process, working from preparatory drawings to creating the clay original, finally reaching the bronze casting stage where the texture, patina and the permanence of the final sculpture is created. 

Selected Collections/Commissions 

Memorial to Lord Wavertree, National Stud Co Kildare 

KPMG collection 

Allied Irish Bank collection 

OPW Botanic Gardens 

Newman House garden Stephens Green 

UCD outdoor sculpture collection