Curators of Zimbabwean Sculpture Worldwide
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EnquireBorn in Tengenenge in 1979.
He started sculpting in 1993, stimulated and inspired by his father Enos Gunja. He also admired Bernard Matemera and Brighton Sango.
From 2001-2003, he was employed as a primary school teacher, but decided to come back to Tengenenge to be a full-time sculptor.
He is married to Charity.
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.