Selected Artist

• Chenjerai Chiripanyanga

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• 3rd Generation

• Chenjerai was born in 1970 in Mutoko, Zimbabwe. He did his primary school at Bondamakara in the same area where he was born and attended his secondary education at Warddlove school in Marondera. In 1990, he joined the National Art Gallery of Zimbabwe under B.A.T. workshops for three years participating in paintings and stone carving. This was a strong source of encouragement and inspiration, so Chenjerai became interested in being a full time sculptor. In 1993, he went to Rome, Italy, for a two weeks workshop. Then in 1994 he went to Holland for three months. In 1995 he went to France and Belgium for two weeks. Then he went to South Africa for a group exhibition in Cape Town. He has further exhibited his work in Germany, Norway, Austria, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.

All sculptures by Chenjerai Chiripanyanga

1. • Scatching Bull

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   • Cobalt
   • Height: 170 cm
   • Sold
   • Burg Liechtenstein
   
   

2. • Scratching Bird

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   • Opal
   • Height: 22 cm
   • Sold
   • Berlin
   
   

Browse artists

1. • Colleen Madamombe

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   • 2nd Generation
   • Colleen Madamombe was born in 1964 and did achieve an extraordinary level of success for a woman sculptor in Zimbabwe, traditionally a male dominated art form. Her work deals with the role of women in Zimbabwean society, often addressing the changing role of the woman in modern African life. Her tra...

2. • Edward Chiwawa

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   • 1st Generation
   • Edward Chiwawa was born in the Guruve district of Zimbabwe in 1935. He began sculpting in 1970 in Guruve, form here he brought his sculptures to The Artist Community Tengenge to be exhibited and sold from there.

     Edward Chiwawa lives in the workers' suburb of Chitungwiza, 10 miles south of the ...

3. • Ennica Mukomberanwa

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   • 3rd Generation
   • Ennica is challenging her brothers Lawrence and Taguma. Not to outdo them, but because she (as well as her sister Netsai) feels very strongly that women of Zimbabwe should show the world that they have a lot to express about human lives and conditions, expressions of traditional beliefs, as well as ...

4. • Enos Gunja

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   • 1st Generation
   • Enos Gunja was born in 1949 in Guruve, where he still lives.

     Early in his life he discovered his talent for sculpting and joined the Tengenenge Sculptors' Community in 1967. He says his ideas come from his imagination and dreams. "The figure is taken out of the stone where it lies like a figure ...

5. • Ephraim Chaurika

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   • 1st Generation
   • “I see horses which play like lambs in the field…”

     Ephraim was brought up on a farm where the flaming nostrils and the rolling whites of the eyes of the horse caused him no fear. The Madzimu Bulls with heads of baroque gargoyles, speak of the Minotaur and the bull as myth. Ephraim brought the hors...

6. • Fanizani Akuda

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   • 1st Generation
   • Fanizani Akuda is noted for his smiling faces, whistling men and happy families. His characters are tender and humorous, constantly smiling, with mysteriously slit eyes. They are often formed in pairs or groups. Fanizani's pieces are distinguished by their arrangements of round shapes. His work has ...

7. • Fungayi Mwarowa

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   • 3rd Generation
   • Fungayi Mwarowa Born in 1968 in Chimanimani Fungayi Mwarowa was apprenticed to the late Joram Mariga. He works on hard stones and realizes new possibilities for stone sculpture in verdite, leopard rock and granite. He is foremost among Zimbabwean sculptors searching for new stones to use. He...

8. • Godfrey Kututwa

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   • 2nd Generation
   • Godfrey Kututwa was born in 1967 in the Nyanga district of Zimbabwe. He attended primary school from 1979 to 1985 and then attended two years of secondary schooling. His education was cut short by lack of funds to pay school fees and by his own physical disability – he cannot speak and is almost com...

9. • Lawrence Mukomberanwa

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   • 2nd Generation
   • Nicholas Mukomberanwa took great care in providing his sons and daughters with education so they would be able to create a life for themselves, not being dependent on his art or being artists themselves.

     So, Lawrence went to primary school and secondary school and took his A-levels. And t...

10. • Leo Berekayi

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    • 3rd Generation
    • Leo Berekai was born in 1976 in Chitungwiza, south of Harare, where he still lives.
      He tells about becoming a stone sculptor: "When I was 13 years old, my mother married the famous sculptor Joseph Ndanarika, and I watched him create his pieces. When Joseph died, she took up sculpting herself a...

11. • Marian Nyanhongo

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    • 2nd Generation
    • Marian Nyanhongo was born in 1966 in Nyanga, Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe. She went to school at Mazarura primary school and Avila Mission for her secondary education. After completion of her academics, Marian was employed in the textile industries for some years and later decided to become a full ...

12. • Mike (Mekias) Munyaradzi

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    • 2nd Generation
    • Mike Munyaradzi was born at Tengenenge in Guruve, Zimbabwe on the 1st of February 1967. After finishing his secondary education in Zengeza - at the same time being an apprentice of his father, the late Henry Munyaradzi, he enrolled at Manchester Metropolitan University in U.K. and graduated with a ...

13. • Netsai Mukomberanwa

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    • 3rd Generation
    • Netsai is Lawrence and Taguma Mukomberanwa's sister. She teaches in a primary school and in most afternoons she is sculpting at the farm in Ruwa, where the brothers also work and where their father, Nicholas Mukomberanwa raised them.

      Netsai's sculptures are following in the tradition of the famil...

14. • Regis Mushawata

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    • 2nd Generation

15. • Shephard Madzikatire

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    • 2nd Generation
    • Shephard is a very modest man – although he is not for a moment in doubt of his artistic value – he is a genuine artist in the best sense of the word and in his very own right. His sculptures speak to us – with a strong language, with closed eyes or with a heavy burden to tell us about. He himself...

16. • Square Chikwanda

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    • 2nd Generation
    • Square Chikwanda was born in 1972 in Guruve, Zimbabwe. When he was 7 he moved with his family to Tengenenge Sculpture Community. His father, already a sculptor at Tengenenge, allowed Square to assist him with sanding and polishing. At the age of 13 Square started sculpting on his own, and with time ...

17. • Sylvester Mubayi

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    • 1st Generation
    • Sylvester Mubayi is one of the first master sculptors of Zimbabwe. He met Tom Blomefield in front of the National Gallery in the sixties and came to Tengenge and started sculpting with great talent.

      Later he was asked by the director of the gallery, Frank McEwen to come there and work, and eventua...

18. • Taguma Mukomberanwa

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    • 2nd Generation
    • As the youngest son in the family (that is the meaning of his name) Taguma has a lot to live up to - both the legacy of his fathr, Nicholas, and his brothers, the now deceased Anderson and Lawrence, who is now bearing the responsibility in the family.

      Taguma has clearly inherited some of the sma d...

19. • Tendai Mukomberanwa

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    • 3rd Generation
    • Born in 1974 as the son of one of the country’s most renowned and well-respected sculptors of the First Generation, Nicholas Mukomberanwa, Tendai started sculpting at a tender age of 10 with much encouragement and nurturing by his late master – his father. His first sculptures were small Steatite he...

20. • Wonder Luke

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    • 2nd Generation
    • Wonder Luke lives near Tengenenge and works from there creating his fantastic heads of Chinese queens, somebody holding his or her head in the hand, and so on. His art is of the type where you explore the same subject matter again and again, and always in a new strong way- faces and heads expressing...

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