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Richard Mteki was born in 1947 in Harare, Zimbabwe, the younger brother of the celebrated sculptor Boira Mteki. Growing up in proximity to one of the country's great artists planted the seed of what w

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

Gerald Takawira was born in 1959 into one of Zimbabwe’s most celebrated sculptural families. The Takawira name is inseparable from the history of the Shona sculptural movement: John Takawira — Gerald’