Henry Munyaradzi working with serpentine stone from Tengenenge1973 carving of an eagle by Bernard Matemera
Tengenenge is a community of artists and their families located in the Guruve District of Zimbabwe. It has achieved international recognition because of the large number of sculptors who have lived and worked there since 1966. These include Fanizani Akuda, Bernard Matemera, Sylvester Mubayi, Henry Munyaradzi and Bernard Takawira.[2]
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^Winter-Irving, Celia (1995). Stone Sculpture in Zimbabwe. Roblaw Publishers. p. 210. ISBN 0908309147.
Tengenenge is a community of artists and their families located in the Guruve District of Zimbabwe. It has achieved international recognition because of...
not ethnically Shona. His whole professional career was spent at the Tengenenge Sculpture Community, 150 km north of Harare near Guruve. Bernard Matemera...
Blomefield, a white South-African-born farmer of tobacco whose farm at Tengenenge near Guruve had extensive deposits of serpentine stone suitable for carving...
Munyaradzi. From 1970 he was a resident of the Tengenenge Sculpture Community, he sold his sculptures from Tengenenge, but he never moved in there. His sculptures...
recognised members are not ethnically Shona. He worked initially at the Tengenenge Sculpture Community, 150 km north of Harare near Guruve, which he joined...
recognised members were not ethnically Shona. He worked initially at the Tengenenge Sculpture Community, 150 km north of Harare near Guruve, which he joined...
the Tengenenge Sculpture Community — his artistic output may be found in the collections of the Chapungu Sculpture Park. "Sanwell Chirume » Tengenenge Art...
father, also a Zimbabwean sculptor. Born in Mvurwi, Chikwanda moved to the Tengenenge Sculpture Community with his father at the age of seven. There his father...
of Mozambique, Barankinya Gosta was a resident of Zimbabwe's renowned Tengenenge Sculpture Community. He worked primarily in wood, which he painted; his...
he moved to Zimbabwe in the 1960s, and spent most of his career at the Tengenenge Sculpture Community, where he died, having never fully recovered from...
returned to Guruve and opened a studio. In 1966 Tom Blomefield, owner of the Tengenenge Farm in Guruve, asked Chakanyuka to teach him to sculpt. Chakanyuka did...
1989 he was invited by his friend Square Chikwanda to come work at the Tengenenge Sculpture Community; he spent the next six months there learning from...
other serpentines, especially a local variant called springstone found at Tengenenge. Celia Winter-Irving said of Nicholas "Unlike many other sculptors, Mukomberanwa...
works by Auguste Rodin, Roberto Crippa and M. Tossini. In 1966, the first Tengenenge serpentine springstone deposit was discovered by Crispin Chakanyuka, a...
dedicated to the early sculptors, including the early artists from the Tengenenge Community. There, many schools and art collectors learn about the artwork...
(then Salisbury) and worked at the Chibuku Breweries. Mubayi joined the Tengenenge Sculpture Community in April 1967 as one of its early members. In 1969...
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