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John Type was born in 1963 in Harare and began carving stone in the late 1980s, drawn to the medium through contact with the Shona sculptural community that had grown up around the National Gallery. H

Ngoni Chandigwa was born in 1968 near Mutare, in Zimbabwe’s eastern highlands — a landscape of granite ridges and mist-laden valleys that has long nurtured the country’s stone-carving tradition. He be

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 a form an

Tinashe Makaza was born in 1980 and belongs to the youngest generation of sculptors in York’s Shona Gallery’s representation. He came of age as Zimbabwe’s 2000s economic crisis disrupted cultural life

The Shona are the largest indigenous group in Zimbabwe, comprising roughly 80 percent of the country's population and divided into five principal clans: the Karanga, Zezuru, Korekore, Manyika, and Nda