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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

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 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 came to the craft

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 tobacco farm.