York's Shona Gallery
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Stories of the artists and peoples behind the work: the sculptors, tribes, and traditions that have shaped our collection.
John Type
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...
Ngoni Chandigwa
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...
Gerald Takawira
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’...
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...
Joseph Tozo
Joseph Tozo was born in 1960 and came of age at Tengenenge, the extraordinary sculptural community in Mashonaland Central that Tom Blomefield established in the late 1960s on his former...
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...
Ben Apollo
Ben Apollo was born in 1969 and developed his practice at Tengenenge, the sculptural community that has proven to be one of the most enduring incubators of Zimbabwean stone carving...