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Stories of the artists and peoples behind the work: the sculptors, tribes, and traditions that have shaped our collection.
Ndonye Mwanzilo
Ndonye Mwanzilo was born in 1967 in Zambia and came to the Zimbabwean stone-carving tradition as one of several artists from neighboring countries who found in the Shona sculptural community...
Denny Kanyemba
Denny Kanyemba was born in 1965 and developed his practice at Tengenenge, the sculptural community that became one of the most important incubators of Zimbabwean stone-carving in the post-independence...
Agrippa Ndongwe
Agrippa Ndongwe was born in 1958 in Harare and began carving stone in the early 1980s, as the Shona sculptural movement was entering its second phase of international recognition. He...
Damian Manuhwa
Damian Manuhwa was born in 1972 in Harare, a generation removed from the Workshop School artists who founded the Shona sculptural movement. Coming of age in post-independence Zimbabwe, he encountered...
Fungai Mwarowa
Fungai Mwarowa was born in 1955 in the Guruve district of Mashonaland Central, a region whose red earth sits above some of the finest stone deposits in Zimbabwe. He came...