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Charles Backford

Location: Harare
Age: 48

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Previous Works

  • Deep In Thought Not for sale
    Deep In Thought
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  • My New Born Baby Not for sale
    My New Born Baby
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Charles was born in Harare in 1974 and was educated in Harare. After completing his high school he began inspiring Tapfuma Gutsa whom had set up a studio Utonga at his father’s High Density Suburb.

Charles has also worked along side sculptors like Eddie Masaya, Garrison Machinjili, Dominic Benhura and Gerald Takawira to name a few. He has some of his works accepted in galleries in Zimbabwe and abroad. He also has some of his works purchased by private collectors overseas. Charles has a number of group exhibitions locally and abroad.

He is interested in working on hard colourful Springstone, Green Opalstone and Leopard Rock, he has ventured into new Iconography in an attempt to reinterpret the values and beliefs of his culture in a contemporary idiom.

He is one of a few innovative sculptors in Zimbabwe who is expanding their repertoire of themes and subjects taking a nontraditional approach to traditional materials.

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A real treat here in Wimbledon. At Cannizaro Park a superb open-air exhibition of Zimbabwean sculpture. There were many pieces, large and small, and a wide variety of different stone used in imaginative ways. And, overall, a real sense of Africa, linked to a long artistic tradition.

I was told that many of the sculptors had been trained within their own families: a father, an uncle, a grandfather, passing on the old skills.

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