African Sculptors, Sculpture in Africa

• Chapungu.Com - Zimbabwe Stone Sculpture Zimbabwe stone sculpture first began to emerge in the early sixties with artists and small workshops of artists who were encouraged by the then director of the National Art Gallery in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia). The critics were amazed at how the indigenous people took to this art form and by the themes and ideas that inspired each piece. The sculptors soon discovered the wealth of the stones to be found in Zimbabwe's Great Dyke and moved onto harder, more difficult but more beautiful material. Out of these beginnings have risen some of the most famous names in African art history such as Nicholas Mukomberanwa, Henry Munyaradzi, Joram Mariga and many more. We are now coming up into the second and even third generation of artists from this era, and with this we see more than ever the great diversity of impressions and materials used. See: Sculptors, Sculpture Gallery, News Contact:Contact
  
  
  • Chapungu - "Custom & Legend: A Culture in Stone" Exhibition at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St Louis Missouri USA. April 28 to October 7, 2001
    
    
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Features and Events Chapungu
    Custom and Legend: A Culture in Stone 27 May to 15 October 2000
    
    
  • Palmengarten Frankfurt Germany 1999
    
    
• Just Zimbabwe Ltd. - The House Of Stone - Just Zimbabwe aims to provide the highest quality stone sculpture from the up and coming to the master sculptors in Zimbabwe. We encourage individuality and expression by continually interacting with each artist, and affording them every opportunity to mature into masters of the art form. To enrich the art form and to make it more internationally recognized, by holding sizeable outdoor and indoor exhibitions throughout the world, and to do comprehensive documentation for each exhibition. See: Retail Sculpture, First Generation Sculptors, Second Generation Sculptors, Third Generation Sculptors. Contact: chapungu@ntlworld.com or +44 (0) 118 9610 503 in Reading Berkshire UK.
  
  
• Postcolonial and Post imperial Literature An Overview - Africa - The Visual Arts of Sub-Saharan Africa by George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History, Brown University
  
  
  • An Overview of Sculpture in Zimbabwe
    
    
  • The Richard and Susan Handelsman Gallery of Shona Sculpture
    • The Works of Henry Munyaradzi in the Handelsman Collection
    • Other Sculptors featured in the Handelsman Sculpture Garden
      
      
  • The History of Contemporary Stone Sculpture in Zimbabwe
    
    
  • Is Contemporary Zimbabwean Sculpture Shona Sculpture? by Joceline Mawdsley
    
    
• Spirits In Stone, Shona Sculpture The journey from ephemeral dream to a completed stone image is a long and arduous process. Artists will sometimes travel great distances searching for a particularly powerful stone spirit. See: Gallery, Creation of a Sculpture, Carving Stones, Featured Artists, Spirits In Stone Customer Care, Links Contact: Contact Info
  
  
• Tribal art - African sculpture Gallery, About
  
  
• Africart Home A Gallery in the home-and-garden. African Art Collector Renate specialises in Art from Nigeria and Stone Sculptures from Zimbabwe See: Background, Brighton Festival, Stone Sculpture from Zimbabwe
  
  
• CAMA - Zimbabwe Stone Sculpture Sculptures from the Chapungu Sculpture Park, Harare, Zimbabwe See: Gallery, Sculptors
  
  
• Dateline News - May 27, 1998 - The Spirit of the Stones by Derek Benes - The artists involved during this time were the first generation of this new Shona sculpting movement. Many - like Norbert Shamuyaria, Joseph Ndandarika, Damian Manuhwa, Sylvester Mubayi and Henry Munyaradzi - later gained international recognition for their work. Today their individual works are valued as high as $50,000. The current show is an emotional one for Ms. Knowlton. Sculptor Henry Munyaradzi died on Feb. 28 while Ms. Knowlton was in Zimbabwe. At the forefront of Shona sculpting, Mr. Munyaradzi is probably the most well-known of the Zimbabwe sculptors.
  
  
  • Princeton Packet OnLine News May 21, 2000 Carved of wisdom, social issues and poverty - Shona sculptors free the spirit of the stone and the homeless Ms. Peggy Knowlton is proud to feature two artists from the younger generation in this exhibit: Colleen Madamombe, one of a few prominent female sculptors in Zimbabwe, and Dominic Benhura. Although they are only in their late 20s and early 30s, these promising sculptors have exhibited throughout America, Europe and the Pacific Rim.
    
    
• Mhiripiri Gallery As a native, Rex Mhiripiri knew the territory well enough to locate off-the-beaten-track sculpture sites and to secure work by some of the country's best-known artists. He financed the trip partly with support from a few dozen regular collectors - for whom he bought work in styles agreed upon beforehand. Importing nearly 50,000 pounds of fine culture from his homeland was something of a watershed in Mhiripiri's life. See: Sculpture Gallery, About Rex Mhiripiri, About Zimbabwe Shona Sculpture Contact: Shonamhiripirgal@aol.com or (612) 375-0100 in Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
  
  
  • Some of the Shona artists work alone or with apprentices on farm like compounds. Others have formed loose cooperatives that operate like open-air studios and galleries where dozens of artists chip and polish their work under the scrutiny of potential buyers. Their preferred material - a beautiful, marble smooth, semiprecious green stone called serpentine - has been found in only two spots on earth, one in Zimbabwe.
    
    
• Yanzum African Collection All African pieces shown in the YANZUM Gallery web site are antique and have actually been used in the village unless otherwise noted. Please e-mail or call us for pricing and other information. This is only a small portion of our collection so if you are looking for particular pieces to add to your collection, please send your e-mail address. It would help if you tell us your particular interests. We are a serious gallery and looking for serious buyers only. Contact: yanzum@mindspring.com or (404) 874-8063 in Atlanta Georgia USA
  
  
• Reese Galleries - Contemporary Stone Sculpture from Zimbabwe