Dominic Benhura visiting from Zimbabwe at The Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden

29 August 2014

August 26-Sept. 1

Join us to meet Dominic Benhura this coming weekend!

Awards from the United Nations and the Nelson Mandela Foundation have helped make Dominic Benhura one of the most prominent Shona sculptors in the world. He’ll be at The Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden for one week only.

There is a widespread assumption today that art must necessarily be international… But against this trend one finds isolated pockets of resistance, which suggest that good art can (perhaps must) be a local affair – the product of a particular place and culture. And of the one of the most remarkable in the contemporary world is the last 30 years… placed beside the dismal stuff so beloved of the international art bureaucracy – as they were in the 1990 Biennale – these African carvings shine out in a desolate world.

Sunday TelegraphLondon

Dominic Benhura visiting from Zimbabwe at The Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden

Toronto Botanical Garden, Canada (2018)

Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden, United States (2017)

Muttart Conservatory, Canada (2015)

Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden, United States (2014-15)

The Royal Botanical Gardens, Canada (2012-13 & 2006-7)

Dow Gardens, USA (2013)

Naples Botanical Garden, United States (2012-13)

RHS Chelsea Flower Show, UK (2006-11)